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<blockquote data-quote="Tikkamike" data-source="post: 1006243" data-attributes="member: 22242"><p>I was very surprised. I recovered several bullets out of her but the one that really stuck out was the one from the first shot before her adrenaline kicked in. It went in the chest near the collor bone and got lodged in the meat around the spine...it didnt even hit the vertibrae hard enough to temporarily disable her from the shock, she acted like she wasnt hit other than the blood spraying out. But the next problem is that heavy hide and muscle closed up that chest cavity and stopped the bleeding (and her sucking chest wound) This is why I like exit holes..let the air out and they will die and 2 holes are harder to plug than one.</p><p></p><p>All this being said I have seen my sister kill several elk when we were kids with a 243 and 100gr partitions. it didnt do it well but she never let one get away. We always told her shoot till it stops moving then shoot it again. the sectional density of that heavy for caliber bullet did a better job than the same weight bullet in a 2506 in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tikkamike, post: 1006243, member: 22242"] I was very surprised. I recovered several bullets out of her but the one that really stuck out was the one from the first shot before her adrenaline kicked in. It went in the chest near the collor bone and got lodged in the meat around the spine...it didnt even hit the vertibrae hard enough to temporarily disable her from the shock, she acted like she wasnt hit other than the blood spraying out. But the next problem is that heavy hide and muscle closed up that chest cavity and stopped the bleeding (and her sucking chest wound) This is why I like exit holes..let the air out and they will die and 2 holes are harder to plug than one. All this being said I have seen my sister kill several elk when we were kids with a 243 and 100gr partitions. it didnt do it well but she never let one get away. We always told her shoot till it stops moving then shoot it again. the sectional density of that heavy for caliber bullet did a better job than the same weight bullet in a 2506 in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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