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Where does the .30-06 fit into the LRH Pantheon of cartridges?
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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Buster" data-source="post: 1553318" data-attributes="member: 99718"><p>I understand that at one time it held the record as the most accurate 1000 yard rifle at camp Perry ! It couldn't have much energy left at that range and would have to be dropping like a rock ! I shot a buck the last day of the season one year that was by my Tasco range finding scope about 600 yards away ! I put the elevation on and used a little three step stool and some 2X4 pieces to shoot from, he was quartering to me with his left side facing me. When I shot the first shot he ran down the far mountain maybe 30 yards and went behind some pines . I thought I had missed, then he came out from behind the pines limping and I quick shot a second shot, and he did a barrel roll ! Then it was try to find him ! I was alone and had to line trees up as I went down my mountain and up the one he was on ! I got up to an opening that looked like it was where he had been and I looked to my left and back down the mountain and there he was wrapped around a small pine tree ! The first shot had entered just behind his left shoulder and lodged in his right hind quarter, that's why he was limping, the second shot hit just behind his right shoulder and came out about 2" from the first bullets entry hole ! I was using a 190 grain Sierra Match king bullet, upon recovery of the bullet that lodged in his hip it was determined to have never opened up, you could see the lands marks the length of the bullet and the very tip was slightly bent ! I do not know at what speed that bullet will open up, but I would say that it was traveling less than 1000 feet per second when it hit the deer !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Buster, post: 1553318, member: 99718"] I understand that at one time it held the record as the most accurate 1000 yard rifle at camp Perry ! It couldn't have much energy left at that range and would have to be dropping like a rock ! I shot a buck the last day of the season one year that was by my Tasco range finding scope about 600 yards away ! I put the elevation on and used a little three step stool and some 2X4 pieces to shoot from, he was quartering to me with his left side facing me. When I shot the first shot he ran down the far mountain maybe 30 yards and went behind some pines . I thought I had missed, then he came out from behind the pines limping and I quick shot a second shot, and he did a barrel roll ! Then it was try to find him ! I was alone and had to line trees up as I went down my mountain and up the one he was on ! I got up to an opening that looked like it was where he had been and I looked to my left and back down the mountain and there he was wrapped around a small pine tree ! The first shot had entered just behind his left shoulder and lodged in his right hind quarter, that's why he was limping, the second shot hit just behind his right shoulder and came out about 2" from the first bullets entry hole ! I was using a 190 grain Sierra Match king bullet, upon recovery of the bullet that lodged in his hip it was determined to have never opened up, you could see the lands marks the length of the bullet and the very tip was slightly bent ! I do not know at what speed that bullet will open up, but I would say that it was traveling less than 1000 feet per second when it hit the deer ! [/QUOTE]
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