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Dustin

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I had my only two days to hunt, and came out with a whitetail doe. Shot it with my .300 Weatherby Mark V Deluxe, and got it in the shoulder at a little over 100 yards. I was using a 180 gr. Hornady interlock load (Hornady ammo) and there was no exit wound.
 
Yep that can happen with big magums at close range. I've had a 200gr NBT fail to exit a Mule buck at about 75m... hell I couldn't even find any bits of bullet, just an in hole that I could put my fist through.
 
Better than the deer I just skinned, cut, and wrapped for my neighbor (I'm a nice guy with low intelligence). Weight of lost meat due to a shot that destroyed both hams and a second through the neck = 35 lbs. Powdered bone, bloodshot meat and granulated tallow sure cuts down the yield of those hind quarters.:rolleyes:
 
HeadDamage said:
Yep that can happen with big magums at close range. I've had a 200gr NBT fail to exit a Mule buck at about 75m... hell I couldn't even find any bits of bullet, just an in hole that I could put my fist through.
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HD,

Can you explain that further ?:confused:
 
In what way? 200gr NBT going about 2900-3000fps from a 338win hits mule deer buck in the ribs and disapears.... dead dear but no exit wound and I could put my hand in the hole it made going into the deer... total and complete bullet failure big time, well at least it killed the deer. The deer was standing quatered away from me, it almost looked as if the bullet skipped off of the side of the deer from the shape of the huge enterence hole and absence of bullet fragments in the body cavity.
 
HeadDamage said:
In what way? 200gr NBT going about 2900-3000fps from a 338win hits mule deer buck in the ribs and disapears.... dead dear but no exit wound and I could put my hand in the hole it made going into the deer... total and complete bullet failure big time, well at least it killed the deer. The deer was standing quatered away from me, it almost looked as if the bullet skipped off of the side of the deer from the shape of the huge enterence hole and absence of bullet fragments in the body cavity.
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I was talking about the big magnums at short range and no exit hole. Not your shot.:p

I've not hunted with a big mag (or any mag for that matter) and was just wondering if you knew why a big mags acts like that.

I know big mags (.338, .375, etc..) is a bigger bullet going slower, but with a premium bullet I thought it would still have plenty of punch to go through deer size game.
 
High velocity with a light jacked bullet often results in a blowout. My 338 with moose grade bullets just pokes little holes right through deer but the balistic tip is intended for longer range work where the velocity has dropped enough for it to still open but not blowout. I had loaded them up planning on trying some 400 to 500m shoots across a big cut block but I tripped on the deer at about 75m in the trees on the way there and couldn't resist letting him have it. Hence the bullet was going to fast when it hit the deer... I've seen this happen lots with 300win and 7mm Rem Mag to, guy shoots deer with fast light bullet at close range and boom... bullet fragments.
 
HeadDamage said:
High velocity with a light jacked bullet often results in a blowout. My 338 with moose grade bullets just pokes little holes right through deer but the balistic tip is intended for longer range work where the velocity has dropped enough for it to still open but not blowout. I had loaded them up planning on trying some 400 to 500m shoots across a big cut block but I tripped on the deer at about 75m in the trees on the way there and couldn't resist letting him have it. Hence the bullet was going to fast when it hit the deer... I've seen this happen lots with 300win and 7mm Rem Mag to, guy shoots deer with fast light bullet at close range and boom... bullet fragments.
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That makes perfect sense. Thanks.
 
HeadDamage said:
In what way? 200gr NBT going about 2900-3000fps from a 338win hits mule deer buck in the ribs and disapears.... dead dear but no exit wound and I could put my hand in the hole it made going into the deer... total and complete bullet failure big time, well at least it killed the deer. The deer was standing quatered away from me, it almost looked as if the bullet skipped off of the side of the deer from the shape of the huge enterence hole and absence of bullet fragments in the body cavity.
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Do you think the bullet penetrated and decintigrated, or entered, turned left, and skipped back out like a stone off water? What type of damage was done to the internals?
 
The lungs where toast but there where no bullet frags anywhere in the body that I could find and no holes other than the in hole. I suspect it blew up skipped off but that is just a guess.
 
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