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Offline LFaler

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First deer with 500 SW encore yesterday
« on: November 26, 2005, 06:05:22 PM »
shot a doe offhand around 60 yards.  Hit the ground like it had been poleaxed.  400gr CPB WFNGC with 38 grains of H4227.  Misjudged the distance a bit and shot it a bit high.  Blew the spine in half.  Two vertebral bodies completely gone and was missing several inches of spinal cord.  But the meat right up to the hole was just fine.

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First deer with 500 SW encore yesterday
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2005, 01:37:05 AM »
Congrats on you doe.. :D
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bullet performance?
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2005, 04:45:06 AM »
did the bullet exit after taking out the spine?  If you did recover it what kind of shape was it in?  have you checked the speed out of the encore with the 400 grainer?

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encore 500
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2005, 01:34:53 AM »
Don't have a chronograph yet.  According to the loading manual with that barrel length it should be around 1750 fps if memory serves me correctly.  I'll have to double check.  Yes the bullet exited but I didn't find it.  Would like to see how much it deformed.  The exit wound was actually pretty small, not much bigger than the bullet.  Not a bunch of meat destruction like you see with some hypervelocity rounds.  Given the amount of meat destruction, that leads me to believe it probably either just pulverized the bone on the way through or fragmented.  I didn't find any lead pieces so I'll presume the former until I can prove otherwise.