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What type of bullet did you use on your last elk?
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<blockquote data-quote="agrodgers" data-source="post: 1557029" data-attributes="member: 46003"><p>2018 - 309yds. Quartering to with me higher. Took her where the neck attaches, left side, exited the right shoulder. Never took a step but went 75ish yards...slid down a very steep hill, only stopped due to a tree.</p><p>2017 - 250yds. Broadside, hit a few inches high. Took the lungs high, top half nothing left, bottom were intact. Same slope as 2018, she ran a few hundred yds, mostly due to momentum. Once the cavity filled with blood, she was spraying it everywhere.</p><p>All were shot with 180gr AB with muzzle vel. 3080fps.</p><p>Last dozen or so elk were shot with the same bullet/vel setup. 2017 was the first one I've ever had go more then 10yds with the AB. Before that was shooting the same combo but with the BT. I had one bull just inside 50yds and hit a rib broadside. He stood there looking at me for 2-3 seconds, started coughing blood. I had to put 2 more shots into him. The next one was into the front shoulder/bone to try and drop him. The last was into the neck to finish him once I got over there. The BT just didn't penetrate real well at that close of a distance, just blew up. Prior to that I had taken several elk between 350-550yds with the BT and no issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agrodgers, post: 1557029, member: 46003"] 2018 - 309yds. Quartering to with me higher. Took her where the neck attaches, left side, exited the right shoulder. Never took a step but went 75ish yards...slid down a very steep hill, only stopped due to a tree. 2017 - 250yds. Broadside, hit a few inches high. Took the lungs high, top half nothing left, bottom were intact. Same slope as 2018, she ran a few hundred yds, mostly due to momentum. Once the cavity filled with blood, she was spraying it everywhere. All were shot with 180gr AB with muzzle vel. 3080fps. Last dozen or so elk were shot with the same bullet/vel setup. 2017 was the first one I've ever had go more then 10yds with the AB. Before that was shooting the same combo but with the BT. I had one bull just inside 50yds and hit a rib broadside. He stood there looking at me for 2-3 seconds, started coughing blood. I had to put 2 more shots into him. The next one was into the front shoulder/bone to try and drop him. The last was into the neck to finish him once I got over there. The BT just didn't penetrate real well at that close of a distance, just blew up. Prior to that I had taken several elk between 350-550yds with the BT and no issues. [/QUOTE]
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