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popcan

popcan

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Dodge Ram 1500 at 50mph - broadside shot on moving game.

Projectile has great stopping power on deer, but re-load is slow and quite expensive. Make the first one count!

Analysis: not recommended, exhibits very poor penetration and excessive meat damage........





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You need a larger bullet!
Wife and I were at highway speed on the Trans Canada with our early Cummins powered 250 Ram, and pulling good sized travel trailer behind. Highway at that point had the concrete barriers on shoulder. Saw a doe on outside of barrier and bingo, she made a leap over the concrete and my next glimpse was of a cute deer sinking out of view, in front.
A whump, then I felt the tremor as the dual axles of the trailer rolled over her. Everything seemed normal, couldn't stop because of traffic, so let it slow down until I could get off the road.
No damage of any shape or form! The licence plate was molded to the bumper, bumper undamaged. A portion of the four wheel drive front housing was covered in hair and hide.
Carried on with our trip.
 
Does that have the Dodge "Magnum" engine? :p

Used to be you didn't need one, but deer have toughened up a lot in the past century.
 
Such as it is, just remember, if you try to deke, take the ditch and wreck, your ins. is no good. Better to whack it than roll it if you can't avoid it. Plus, your chance of injury is less. Shoulder straps are a joke.
Sucks, but if you don't hit a deer sometime in your life, you're the oddity.
Welcome to the club.
 
I am a fricken deer magnet, I tell you.

I've hit 3 deer in 2 years, (above pics are the first time any significant damage resulted)......and this year one ran into the side of my truck while I was stopped!
Right into the drivers' side front quarter panel. :eek:




But come thursday opening........ I probably won't see anything but tracks. :p
 
popcan said:
I am a fricken deer magnet, I tell you.

I've hit 3 deer in 2 years, (above pics are the first time any significant damage resulted)......and this year one ran into the side of my truck while I was stopped!
Right into the drivers' side front quarter panel. :eek:




But come thursday opening........ I probably won't see anything but tracks. :p
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Don't feel bad popcan, when I first started driving transport 21 years ago I ran team with a company here that handed my partner and I a brand new truck 4 months in. Well inside of the first 25000km, about 1 month tops we had tagged a moose, 7 months later I tagged one 40kms east of Longlac, that was december, by February I added a pair of whitetails one night standing together in the U.P of Michigan, in May my partner flattened a buck in Ohio. We went eventless til I left there 1 year later but by the time that truck finished its career at that company Bill told me it had 5 moose and 21 deer kills. He said he was thinking of putting kill records on the door like a WW2 fighter!:eek:
 
My brother tried a Geo Tracker on an unusually large wood bison at 50 mph, right into the front shoulder!

The bison was rocked, but never actually fell over, walked away generally fine.

The Tracker was totalled. Sorry - no pics!
 
When I was a kid, my dad used to travel all over BC and Alberta on business

He was at a service station getting gas one day in Northern BC and noted a VW Bug with the top part of the cab crunched in. He asked "did they roll that?"

Gas station attendant (how dated is that) said "nope, they went under a moose!!"

Dad asked if the moose was killed

"Nope, he got back up and walked away, but I bet his ribs were sore!"
:cool:
 
I had negative results using a dodge Intrepid. Velocity was low, about 44 fps, but retained energy was good. I flinched when making the shot, & hit the doe poorly. Never recovered it.

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