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<blockquote data-quote="hunter67wa" data-source="post: 1564055" data-attributes="member: 28295"><p>I agree they are tough animals as well as whitetails seem to be dam tough at times. I shot a bull Roosevelt at 90 yards with a 30-06 with 180 Hornady 5 times behind the shoulder and he stood there never took a step. 5th shot he went down. I was dumbfounded. When we gutted him I had five hits in a volleyball size group as I was getting a little flustered thinking something was wrong. Nope he didn't get the memo that he was dead. Shot another rosy at 310y 300 win 180 Partition first shot he turned his head looked my direction and I thought what the hell that shot was perfect. So I started to take aim and noticed a dark spit behind his shoulder thought I would aim for that. Aim small miss small. As the trigger broke his back legs started to wobble. Both shots were withing 2 inches the dark spot was blood. Another time and here is the point I was hunting cows with a 375 H&H with 270 grain corelokt RN the herd came trotting by at 60y and I picked a cow out and let drive perfect midships gut shot. I might as well walked up and kicked her in the *** as she runoft like nothing happened. I ran over the hill as they were going to come through a clear-cut and they did stopped at the bottom I figured out which one she was and placed one through the shoulders and down she went. Had I not had that opportunity it would have been a long day. I had a friend that all he used was a 243 with whatever ammo was on sale and he killed bucks,bulls and bears with regular monotony, but he never pulled the trigger unless he had a perfect shot. We could learn from that. He let a lot go as he didn't have a shot but knew he would get another chance. To say Im going on a hunt of a lifetime and am gonna shoot a big caliber cause I wont be back with the possibility of losing an animal is silly. Its hunting not killing enjoy the experience. And to the OP if you dont have time to practice then by a 30-06 shoot 200's sighted 3" high at 100 and be done out to 275 yards mpbr.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hunter67wa, post: 1564055, member: 28295"] I agree they are tough animals as well as whitetails seem to be dam tough at times. I shot a bull Roosevelt at 90 yards with a 30-06 with 180 Hornady 5 times behind the shoulder and he stood there never took a step. 5th shot he went down. I was dumbfounded. When we gutted him I had five hits in a volleyball size group as I was getting a little flustered thinking something was wrong. Nope he didn't get the memo that he was dead. Shot another rosy at 310y 300 win 180 Partition first shot he turned his head looked my direction and I thought what the hell that shot was perfect. So I started to take aim and noticed a dark spit behind his shoulder thought I would aim for that. Aim small miss small. As the trigger broke his back legs started to wobble. Both shots were withing 2 inches the dark spot was blood. Another time and here is the point I was hunting cows with a 375 H&H with 270 grain corelokt RN the herd came trotting by at 60y and I picked a cow out and let drive perfect midships gut shot. I might as well walked up and kicked her in the *** as she runoft like nothing happened. I ran over the hill as they were going to come through a clear-cut and they did stopped at the bottom I figured out which one she was and placed one through the shoulders and down she went. Had I not had that opportunity it would have been a long day. I had a friend that all he used was a 243 with whatever ammo was on sale and he killed bucks,bulls and bears with regular monotony, but he never pulled the trigger unless he had a perfect shot. We could learn from that. He let a lot go as he didn't have a shot but knew he would get another chance. To say Im going on a hunt of a lifetime and am gonna shoot a big caliber cause I wont be back with the possibility of losing an animal is silly. Its hunting not killing enjoy the experience. And to the OP if you dont have time to practice then by a 30-06 shoot 200's sighted 3" high at 100 and be done out to 275 yards mpbr. [/QUOTE]
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