Over-penetration a concern when hunting ?

You're not the first person to say it that i've heard ... i have no idea why they seem to have some problems in some guns sometimes and are such reliable performers other times.

They've been proven lethal every single time without fail in 175 grain 7mm mags and i've used 180 grain high energy loads from federal with good results - but i've heard more than one story like yours too.

Weird.

I've switched to x bullets in my gun with great success and in the 7 too although we haven't shot anything with it yet.
 
Partitions have a loyal following... they are 40 years old and lots of game has been taken with them. I know there are better bullets out there.... that is for sure :idea:
 
I have never hit an animal with a seirra game King that I cvan rememebr that did not do the " Bang -flop Boogie"! :mrgreen:
Lots of people say they "blow up" ," don't penetrate", " don't expand" and other stuff.

The thing is, I have seen these conditions with all bullets.
Quartering shot ona deer and hit the shoulder, there is gonna be damage.

Get just the right combination of an expanding bullet , fast velocity and close range, and look out!

Game Kings get there with accuracyy, drop the critter where he is , if the shot is placed right, and do it at half the cost of premium bullets.

Hit a deer bad with a .375 H&H and you are not going to take the wheels out from underneath him, however.....

Cat
 
Many years ago I shot a huge caribou bull with my old 270 Husqvarna. I had used the rifle for more than ten years, put almost 4000 rounds through it and knew the trajectory very well.

The bull was perfectly broadside in his bed at around 300 yds. I took a very steady shot from prone and hit the bull a bit high, close to where the neck joined the body. He just rolled over in his bed and that was it.

Then we noticed another caribou staggering around about 50 feet to the right of where the bull was laying. Understand, now, the second caribou was not behind the bull, but to the right, not even close to the path the bullet had travelled.

In a few seconds the second caribou was down. When we got up there the bullet had hit the vertebrae of the first bull, deflected about sixty degrees, come out the neck and hit the second animal almost perfectly behind the ear! :shock:

The bullet? The old 130 gr Winchester Silvertip propelled by H4831 and a magnum primer. The expanded bullet had not penetrated the skull, but the caribou was dead as a nit.

If the bullet had hit somewhere else, there would have been a second caribou wounded, and we might not have ever known. :(

Ted
 
bone-collector said:
thats why you use 375s Ted then there is no guess work of whos dead or not :lol:
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You mean like this 250 gr Barnes X that tumbled? :shock:

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Ted
 
bone-collector said:
well you know tumbeling does make a bigger hole for blood trailing :lol:

and I use 270gr Barnes x out of the 375, seem to run pretty slick
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This 250 in the picture ended up against the far shoulder of a Woods Bison I shot in 1999. The bullet sure chewed up things inside and the bison went down on the spot!

No need for a second shot either. 8)

Ted
 
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