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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 1891732" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Personally I've had good experiences over the past couple years, I've killed 4 deer with the brass 145gr 30 cals doing 3040 out of an 06 and with the 122gr 6.5 doing 3200 out of a 6.5 PRC I killed a bear and my dad killed a wild boar. With the buck I killed the shot was about 70 yards and hit him in the sternum on an uphill shot, lungs were jelly and I found the bullet back behind the liver while gutting it. The other three were does between 40 and 70 yards, all had complete pass throughs with large easy to follow blood trails.</p><p></p><p>For the bear I shot him 4 times (1 Hammer first and 3 Lehigh's to follow up) which after butchering him I realized the last two were unnecessary. However in my defense I had never seen a bear in the woods before and never once imagined that my first experience would be a 475# one running down a hill at me. In retrospect a head or spine shot would have been the easier shot due to the angle but would have destroyed the skull or back straps which I was trying to avoid.</p><p></p><p>I was aiming for the chest but due to his head bobbing up and down as he ran he dropped his head as I broke my shot and the Hammer hit him in the top center snout, went through the bottom of the orbital socket and exited behind his lower right jaw bone. Due to the angle and head placement it should have exited into his chest but I was unable to find the projectile if it did or it may have deflected enough to go somewhere else.</p><p></p><p>At the shot he dropped then got up and took off away at a hard quartering angle, second shot hit just in front of the left rear leg and exited just behind the right front, impact was high and the fragments broke the spine and punctured the lungs at which point he dropped again. That shot was fatal but since I had heard that wounded bears were hard to track when he tried to get back up twice I sent two right behind the front shoulder, one on each side of the body, at which point he stayed down. Total time was maybe 15 seconds from when I first saw the bear and maybe 8 seconds from the first shot to the last.</p><p></p><p>Upon butchering the bear I found that the Lehigh's had expanded in the fat which was approximately 1.5" thick and the entrance holes into the rib cage were approximately 2" in diameter. Lungs were shredded and all 3 of the bases exited even the one diagonal shot that passed through at least 2 ft of bear. Only thing I got to keep was a couple tiny fragments that were caught between the fat and the rib meat.</p><p></p><p>For the boar it was shot directly in the shoulder which dropped the pig. Didn't get to see the internal damage as it was a guided hunt so they did the gutting and quartering but when we butchered it the entrance shoulder was destroyed and the off shoulder had an exit from the base.</p><p></p><p>So based on my experience I would recommend them as they have killed everything I've shot with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 1891732, member: 36999"] Personally I’ve had good experiences over the past couple years, I’ve killed 4 deer with the brass 145gr 30 cals doing 3040 out of an 06 and with the 122gr 6.5 doing 3200 out of a 6.5 PRC I killed a bear and my dad killed a wild boar. With the buck I killed the shot was about 70 yards and hit him in the sternum on an uphill shot, lungs were jelly and I found the bullet back behind the liver while gutting it. The other three were does between 40 and 70 yards, all had complete pass throughs with large easy to follow blood trails. For the bear I shot him 4 times (1 Hammer first and 3 Lehigh's to follow up) which after butchering him I realized the last two were unnecessary. However in my defense I had never seen a bear in the woods before and never once imagined that my first experience would be a 475# one running down a hill at me. In retrospect a head or spine shot would have been the easier shot due to the angle but would have destroyed the skull or back straps which I was trying to avoid. I was aiming for the chest but due to his head bobbing up and down as he ran he dropped his head as I broke my shot and the Hammer hit him in the top center snout, went through the bottom of the orbital socket and exited behind his lower right jaw bone. Due to the angle and head placement it should have exited into his chest but I was unable to find the projectile if it did or it may have deflected enough to go somewhere else. At the shot he dropped then got up and took off away at a hard quartering angle, second shot hit just in front of the left rear leg and exited just behind the right front, impact was high and the fragments broke the spine and punctured the lungs at which point he dropped again. That shot was fatal but since I had heard that wounded bears were hard to track when he tried to get back up twice I sent two right behind the front shoulder, one on each side of the body, at which point he stayed down. Total time was maybe 15 seconds from when I first saw the bear and maybe 8 seconds from the first shot to the last. Upon butchering the bear I found that the Lehigh’s had expanded in the fat which was approximately 1.5” thick and the entrance holes into the rib cage were approximately 2” in diameter. Lungs were shredded and all 3 of the bases exited even the one diagonal shot that passed through at least 2 ft of bear. Only thing I got to keep was a couple tiny fragments that were caught between the fat and the rib meat. For the boar it was shot directly in the shoulder which dropped the pig. Didn’t get to see the internal damage as it was a guided hunt so they did the gutting and quartering but when we butchered it the entrance shoulder was destroyed and the off shoulder had an exit from the base. So based on my experience I would recommend them as they have killed everything I’ve shot with them. [/QUOTE]
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