mountainman56
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Congratulations! Nice bull and great shooting. gun)
Elk down in New Mexico
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jswhitesell619
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He was a tough one! Awesome looking bull man! Making my elk hunting urge even worse!
WildRose
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Man that's great. There are some good animals in that part of the state but as I remember the numbers are not big and they get so little human contact that they are very wary.
Congrats, I know you worked your butt of to get ready for this kind of hunt for a very long time.
Here are the pics of the bullet as promised. That's a good poking mushroom.
WildRose
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Rarely do you see a bullet recovered that has come any closer to doing exactly what it was designed to do.
It definitely seems to me that in the 338's the Bergers consistently perform awfully well.
WildRose
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Kor, did you weight the big fragment? I'm guessing you've got over 50% weight retention.
here is the last pic that i took that didn't get in with the other pics when I tried to put them on here.
the main piece of bullet weighed 70.1 gr and with the lead fragment that was with it when I recovered the bullet weighs 41 gr so 111.1 gr for both. A little over 33% weight retention. The OTM's seem to work very well.
the main piece of bullet weighed 70.1 gr and with the lead fragment that was with it when I recovered the bullet weighs 41 gr so 111.1 gr for both. A little over 33% weight retention. The OTM's seem to work very well.
Broz
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Good Job!! and huge congrats on a very nice bull. They can be tough suckers and the reason I use a .3 or bigger too.
Good report and I have a few of those recovered 300 OTM's that look a lot like that.
Jeff
Good report and I have a few of those recovered 300 OTM's that look a lot like that.
Jeff
Thanks everyone. It was an experience for sure. I have never seen an animal wobble around like he was on stilts for so long and not fall down. After the second shot made contacted, he wobbled around and would shake his head side to side very vigorously and globs of blood would just fling out of his nose and mouth. All those four shots happened within a minute but it seemed like an eternity from behind the stick. As I have a single shot, I put one round in the chamber when I was set up and had 3 rounds to the side of me. I never felt like I needed a repeater. I had practiced the reloading sequence for a single shot rifle numerous times and you get quite fast at it. Was good to put practice to reality on a live animal and fill the freezer at the same time 
WildRose
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Yep, even at 1/3 retained mass you're talking close to 100gr remaining relatively intact plus a 200gr grenade exploding inside the animal.
If you can get that much in the boiler room every time you are not going to lose many, if any animal even with a single shot.
WildRose
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BTW looking at the weather your timing was probably about as good as it could be since it's looking pretty wet and possibly snowy over there tonight.
Yup...the weather turned ugly up there right after we took off today! And those mountain roads get nasty after a rain!
WildRose
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No kidding. We used to spend a good bit of Time up around Mayhill , Magdelena, and Madre Mountain not to mention visiting my grand dad in Ruidoso. A little rain, ice, or snow and it can get pretty western in a hurry.
