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First experience with match type bullet on game
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<blockquote data-quote="Brant" data-source="post: 1764014" data-attributes="member: 21783"><p>I have only killed game with match bullets for the last 6 or 7 years. These have been a mix of whitetail and mule deer. 2 big bodied mulies with a 140 amax from a 6.5-284 that was a 3000fps load at the muzzle. One at 525 and the other at 180 yards. Both times the bullets expanded extremely well and fragmented a good bit despite not hitting a shoulder. Both dead in under 10 yards. A dropped in its tracks mule deer with a 147 eldm from the same rifle and several whitetails shot with a 308 and 168gr match kings. Even a 140 eldm from a 260 on a whitetail too. All bullets expanded and either broke up inside the animal or left a huge exit. I have had no bad luck with match bullets hunting and will continue to use them. The main reason I use them is because I shoot so many of them through my 308s, 6.5s and 338 lapua that I am so comfortable placing a shot at most ranges right where it needs to be that I know that if I need to make a high shoulder shot or can just blow through rib cage/lungs and heart that I can do it with so much confidence that I can accommodate the setting I'm shooting the animal in. If it's a big buck or bull in an area where I don't want it to run I will anchor the shoulders. If it's something that's more in the open with no opportunity to hide in brush or end up in a hell hole I'll punch the lungs/heart so if it makes it 50 or a hundred yards (though none have to this point) I can opt for that shot placement. There is no replacement for me than being intimately familiar with a particular rifle and a particular load that is tested thousands of times each year at way longer ranges than I would shoot an animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brant, post: 1764014, member: 21783"] I have only killed game with match bullets for the last 6 or 7 years. These have been a mix of whitetail and mule deer. 2 big bodied mulies with a 140 amax from a 6.5-284 that was a 3000fps load at the muzzle. One at 525 and the other at 180 yards. Both times the bullets expanded extremely well and fragmented a good bit despite not hitting a shoulder. Both dead in under 10 yards. A dropped in its tracks mule deer with a 147 eldm from the same rifle and several whitetails shot with a 308 and 168gr match kings. Even a 140 eldm from a 260 on a whitetail too. All bullets expanded and either broke up inside the animal or left a huge exit. I have had no bad luck with match bullets hunting and will continue to use them. The main reason I use them is because I shoot so many of them through my 308s, 6.5s and 338 lapua that I am so comfortable placing a shot at most ranges right where it needs to be that I know that if I need to make a high shoulder shot or can just blow through rib cage/lungs and heart that I can do it with so much confidence that I can accommodate the setting I’m shooting the animal in. If it’s a big buck or bull in an area where I don’t want it to run I will anchor the shoulders. If it’s something that’s more in the open with no opportunity to hide in brush or end up in a hell hole I’ll punch the lungs/heart so if it makes it 50 or a hundred yards (though none have to this point) I can opt for that shot placement. There is no replacement for me than being intimately familiar with a particular rifle and a particular load that is tested thousands of times each year at way longer ranges than I would shoot an animal. [/QUOTE]
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