Author Topic: Range Report.... (Read 2161 times)

quickdtoo · « **Reply #30 on:** September 18, 2004, 02:23:15 PM »

Thanks for the compliment, Fred. :grin: Head and neck shots are a choice I only take when there's no shot like a good boiler room hit and they're close. Hit em in the heart/lung area and they are gonna die, usually on the spot or within 125yds max if they're on the run. The head and neck offer the smallest of targets when it comes to deer/elk. I've killed just 2 elk with neck shots and that was because they were standing in timber and all I could see was the head/neck, and I was close. All the rest, 30+ have been placed in the heart/lung area. An entrance wound from an unexpanded .45-70 is already as big as an expanded .30 cal bullet, and the .45-70 is gonna get a heck of lot bigger on the way out. That's why I don't particularly want to use lead, they tend to make same size holes going in and out, don't expand unless they hit solid bone and I prefer to eat my game as to blow it up when taking out a shoulder. I guess that's just me, though.... :wink:

Fred M · « **Reply #31 on:** September 18, 2004, 03:20:38 PM »

Quick
Nothing wrong with what you are doing. I just mentioned head shots with the 340 because you never utilize the power of a big gun shooting for the head. With a rifle having pin point accuracy no trouble to shoot for the head or neck. Because of a bad shoulder I have been shooting my 25Hunter, for deer and Antelope I have taken 14 animals with 15 shots, only two were not shot in the head or neck.

Have a chance to take four more this year, I hope with four more shots. Last year one deer ran 250 yrds shot through the lungs. He could have been going across the fence owned by a farmer that allows no hunting. I know some one that tried to retrieve a dead deer on that farm and got cought by farmer and taken to court for trespassing.
Big fine and had his license taken away. Head shots is it for me.

Need to make an up date on my 25 Hunter page while I thionk of it.

Fred M.

quickdtoo · « **Reply #32 on:** September 18, 2004, 04:23:36 PM »

Geez, Fred, I've never had a lung shot anything run that far! Were you using FMJ bullets? :wink: :wink: Reminds me of my dad when I was a kid. He decided he wasn't gonna buy sporting ammo for his M-1 garand, just ground the point off military ammo in hopes that it would open up....it didn't! He also decided that he didn't really remember the M-1 being so heavy when he was in combat in the philippines during WWII, he didn't hunt with it more than a season, either!

Tim

Donaldo · « **Reply #33 on:** September 18, 2004, 05:19:52 PM »

Tim,
Touche', or as in Okiespeak, two shay.

Fred M · « **Reply #34 on:** September 18, 2004, 07:27:02 PM »

Quick.
No not a FMJ it was a 25 cal 100gr Nosler partition bullet. The deer was pumping out blood on both sides until it fell down. After the shot there were five deer running in a bunch across the bean field, could not tell which was the one I shot at.

After a while there were only four running. I could not believe the deer would get that far. I picked up the blood trail from where I shot the deer and followed the trail of blood to the deer.
You could not see the deer until you were standing right on top of it. Fred M.

quickdtoo · « **Reply #35 on:** September 18, 2004, 08:19:40 PM »

Some things that happen just leave ya scratchin your head! :?

Deadeye47 · « **Reply #36 on:** September 23, 2004, 03:27:32 PM »

"ground the point off military ammo in hopes that it would open up....it didn't! ".... LOL I thought my dad and uncle were the only ones to try that in their 03-A3's when I was growing up.....I think they finally figured out they needed to spring for some of that expensive hunting ammo...

quickdtoo · « **Reply #37 on:** September 23, 2004, 03:52:59 PM »

Must be a generation thing! :lol: