Recovered bullets thread.

[prairie lover]

Anyone else?

 

[Andrzej]

Here we go ;

 

[prairie lover]

What volocities were those tsx going at impact that lost there petals

 

[Andrzej]

What volocities were those tsx going at impact that lost there petals

This is same bullet in first and second row. Barnes TTSX 150 gr .308 out of 30-06; 3000 ft/sec MV at 60 yards ; frontal shot on WT Buck 3 ft penetration.:
Bullet on red background is 150 gr Hornady GMX .308 out of 30-06 at 3000 MV; shot through plywood at 100y.

 

[mbogo3]

150gr TTSX /30-06 same bullet my son is using in his T3X Was the deer a bangflop or short dash + crash?

 

[savagelh]

This one is from yesterday's whitetail. Shot at 280yards running flat out. Bullet is a 168 matrix bonded rbt from a 308 at 2750fps. As always these bullets performed amazingly. I wish they were still being made. I haven't weighed it yet but it held together very well for how dramatically it opened up.

 

[Sakoman .308]

Don't have a pic but thought I would share this story. A couple years ago while we were pushing a thick cedar swamp for whitetails I had a doe spook and run directly at me. Using a 12 ga with 00 buck I hit her behind the shoulder at less than 10 ft from me. The pattern was smaller than my fist. When we skinned her out we found 3 pellets that just entered into the hide,slid up the ribs and somehow slid straight back the spine stopping from about the middle to almost her hind end. The rest all entered vitals between the rib bones without a single broken rib. I honestly couldn't believe at that close of a shot there didn't seem to be enough power to even break a rib. That's the first deer out of 17-18 I've shot which I've ever shot with a shotgun, and it's maybe just a fluke but it definitely made me think twice about ever using buckshot again.

I don't know much about buckshot, but after reading this, I would not want to use it either.

 

[colonel3006]

I don't know much about buckshot, but after reading this, I would not want to use it either.

Yeah i deffinatly never expected to see that. Espiecally that close. We had pushed this swamp before and i knew how thick and hairy it was. Spots that you can hear the deer within 10 yds and lucky to even see a flash. Thats why i decided to carry shotgun. You could see on the rib bones grooves in the fat of the pellets sliding up through the fat. Like i said,maybe a fluke but deffinatly made me wonder about the effectivness of it.