.25-06 finally scores

[sheephunter]

AFAIC, that narrows it down to the Barnes Triple Shock or Nosler Partition.

lol...plus a dozen others.

 

[BigUglyMan]

I just shot a big WT doe on Friday, as she was facing me at 45 yards straight-on, with my .25-06 and 100gr GK. The bullet smacked the front of her chest, just barely off to the side of the center-line. The bullet blew off the top of the heart, minced the lungs, destroyed a part of the one shoulder blade, and never made it passed the diaphragm. Essentially the bullet got into the chest and grenaded. If I had been using the TSX, the bullet would have penetrated the entire length of the deer and exited, and I probably would have lost less meat (the one shoulder is completely destroyed). Ask me how I know

If she was facing straight on, how did you hit a shoulder?

 

[crazydave]

Nosler partitions usually hold together well. Might want to try them i used them in a 270 wsm for 2 years shot 4 deer, no excessive damage.

 

[Jordan Smith]

If she was facing straight on, how did you hit a shoulder?

I was asking myself the same question when I opened her up and saw the damage. My guess is that the bullet began unspooling shortly after it entered the front of the brisket. I'm also guessing that some of the bullet penetrated the ribcage lengthwise, while hitting the shoulder blade (and destroying the muscle tissue thereon), while the rest of the bullet continued on into the thoracic cavity and made mush out of the lungs and heart.

The bullet went in more or less at this angle:

 

[heavyBullet]

Some of you make it sound as if you never missed your mark, even by a few inches. I did not intentionly shoot the buck through the shoulders a lung shot was planned, but sh-t happens, and I am not perfect. I have shot Deer for almost 40 years, and some years several of them. I have at least 2 or 3 times over the years hit a shoulder but never intentionaly, and have never seen damage like this.

FWIW my post was not directed at you, but people who purposely aim for the shoulder. Over the years, I have hit a couple shoulders also, not intentionally, and always give myself sh!t when I have to carve out what would have been good meat.

 

[blargon]

I have taken a couple intentional shoulder shots, when circumstances dictate. One in particular, needed the deer to be anchored ASAP, as it was about to enter into a Game Preserve...

 

[A-zone]

lol...plus a dozen others.

To each his own. For me it narrows it down to the Triple Shock or Nosler Partition.

This is what happened when a 130 grain Nosler AccuBond struck my (walking) buck's shoulder at just under 300 yards. That kind of superficial destruction was not what I've seen on any of the similar-sized animals that I've taken with the 130 grain Triple Shock from the same rifle (a Tikka 695 in .270 Win).

After being hit the buck trotted off and died within 100 yards, more or less, of the place where he had been shot. There was a single pencil-diameter hole between the ribs on the buck's right side (where he had been shot) and not even a mark on the left side of the ribcage.

A dozen or so other bullet choices? Not for me, thanks.

 

[bcsteve]

Here's an example of a shoulder shot with a 120gr TSX from a .260 Rem. Like the old saying, you could eat right up to the hole!

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[A-zone]

Entrance wound on a blesbuck with a 130 grain Triple Shock (.270 Win.) at a distance of just over 200 yards:

(dropped dead on the spot with the bullet coming to rest under the skin of the far hind leg).