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Killing Elk out to 1000 yards with a 300 WM
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<blockquote data-quote="VLD Pilot" data-source="post: 2096243" data-attributes="member: 103947"><p>Pretty hard to be told "Your lying" but don't be offended. I hit a doe at 1100 yards with a 162 ELDX and from all accounts looked like a perfect hit. My spotter saw the impact and it looked perfect. The deer dropped. When I got to where he was hit, he wasn't down. Blood trail showed he got up and traveled some several hundred yards before dying. Snow made it easy to track. The shot was in the ribs 6" back from where I wanted to hit. Still a vitals shot but back a bit. I've killed deer hit in this spot at 50-500 yards and they always run a little ways but always dead fast. Point being, my spotter said the hit was shoulder or very tight to it. When the deer dropped, he said he assumed it was hit hard in that shoulder area. He saw the impact that looked right there but he was mistaken. Today he still sees that impact thru the spotter and can't believe it was in the rib cage. He didn't lie about the placement, he just believed that's what he saw. The deer dropping in the spot sealed what he thinks he saw. Can't tell you how many deer I lost to a well placed(IMO from what I think I saw) arrow only to track deer close to a mile and blood trail stops. No deer, no recovery, no idea what happened. Gotta believe the shot wasn't where I thought it was. No lie, just a visual deception of what really happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VLD Pilot, post: 2096243, member: 103947"] Pretty hard to be told "Your lying" but don't be offended. I hit a doe at 1100 yards with a 162 ELDX and from all accounts looked like a perfect hit. My spotter saw the impact and it looked perfect. The deer dropped. When I got to where he was hit, he wasn't down. Blood trail showed he got up and traveled some several hundred yards before dying. Snow made it easy to track. The shot was in the ribs 6" back from where I wanted to hit. Still a vitals shot but back a bit. I've killed deer hit in this spot at 50-500 yards and they always run a little ways but always dead fast. Point being, my spotter said the hit was shoulder or very tight to it. When the deer dropped, he said he assumed it was hit hard in that shoulder area. He saw the impact that looked right there but he was mistaken. Today he still sees that impact thru the spotter and can't believe it was in the rib cage. He didn't lie about the placement, he just believed that's what he saw. The deer dropping in the spot sealed what he thinks he saw. Can't tell you how many deer I lost to a well placed(IMO from what I think I saw) arrow only to track deer close to a mile and blood trail stops. No deer, no recovery, no idea what happened. Gotta believe the shot wasn't where I thought it was. No lie, just a visual deception of what really happened. [/QUOTE]
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