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    Quote Originally Posted by 300CALMAN View Post
    It looks to me like that bullet may have done most of the expanding in the dirt. It probably went through the top of the lungs leaving only a little hole after not hitting much. Was their any blood around?
    No blood or bits whatsoever, though it was sluicing down by the time we got there. Nonetheless, the hound just went round in circles. Bullet was about 2 inches into a soft bank, didn't take much finding. Dug around for more bits of bullet but didn't come up with anything.

    Mate says he could clearly see a small exit hole and I spoke to him again this evening and he is adamant that the exit was lower than the "gap" we've been talking about. If you've used a 85x spotting scope you'll know how much detail you can see at 500. Also the angle, shooting uphill at a moderate angle, probably 5° max.

    I've just done a little bit of work on the bullet and pulled back the petals, there's dirt in there, underneath. So the petals seem to have folded back in the dirt. Failure to properly expand (maybe) at 2100fps on a fallow sized animal would kinda blow a bit of a hole in Hornady's 1800fps picture on their ELD-X website. But that's all conjecture, at the end of the day.

 

 

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