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Recovered Barnes bullet
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1261157" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>A TTSX through the ribs can leave you tracking a deer for a very long ways. My neighbor a few weeks back was hunting with his daughter. She shot a nice buck with her .243 loaded with Barnes factory ammo shooting the TTSX. </p><p></p><p>I heard the shot and the impact and my first thought was that it wasn't a good hit, I expected a follow up shot but didn't hear it.</p><p></p><p>A few hours later they call me, the deer had run off onto my property. We looked for about 2 hours finding good blood in different places for about 400yds. We lost the trail in the dark but I told them to feel free to come check tomorrow in the light and call me if they wanted help.</p><p></p><p>The trailed him a full half mile across my place and across the county road with less and less of a blood trail to follow which finally just petered out completely.</p><p></p><p>He was sure the impact was perfect, a few inches behind the shoulder and should have exited the same place on the off side since it was a full broadside shot.</p><p></p><p>He has yet to be found. Poor kid was feeling really bad and I told her just to get over it, it happens to all of us at some point in our hunting careers and to just be sure in the future when using that same bullet, to put it dead on the shoulder so at worst you break down both shoulders and hopefully take out the spine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1261157, member: 30902"] A TTSX through the ribs can leave you tracking a deer for a very long ways. My neighbor a few weeks back was hunting with his daughter. She shot a nice buck with her .243 loaded with Barnes factory ammo shooting the TTSX. I heard the shot and the impact and my first thought was that it wasn't a good hit, I expected a follow up shot but didn't hear it. A few hours later they call me, the deer had run off onto my property. We looked for about 2 hours finding good blood in different places for about 400yds. We lost the trail in the dark but I told them to feel free to come check tomorrow in the light and call me if they wanted help. The trailed him a full half mile across my place and across the county road with less and less of a blood trail to follow which finally just petered out completely. He was sure the impact was perfect, a few inches behind the shoulder and should have exited the same place on the off side since it was a full broadside shot. He has yet to be found. Poor kid was feeling really bad and I told her just to get over it, it happens to all of us at some point in our hunting careers and to just be sure in the future when using that same bullet, to put it dead on the shoulder so at worst you break down both shoulders and hopefully take out the spine. [/QUOTE]
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