Thread: 18 months of hunting

Originally Posted by R93

I just like giving them shit as they're so pedestrian.

I meat shot with a mate who ran one and we were always having to look for deer.... They were dead on their feet but always got away a bit when body shot.
Was a pain in the ass looking for them.

Had another mate who ran one for a while in Haast and changed because of the same reasons. They performed poorly over a large sample. Not just a handful of animals a year.
However in saying that, it was imo more due to projectile availability back then.
Heaps better projectiles available now.


Poo 43 is another story. I hate them with a passion as I owned one.

Don't care what projectiles you can get now for them, I just hate them. Cost me a lot of time and money over a few seasons persisting with one.

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243 :-(((
I had an awful run with that caliber too
But - the rifle I used was on its 3rd barrel and had shot over 1500 Reds in Ruahine Ranges
My mate who owned it and lent to me was a master with it - he reckoned I was shooting slightly back on chest shots heence the prob I had loosing - he sure didn't

We used 130gr Silver Tips in the 270 (think Winchester)
Maybe its also to do with Deer size - Pureora Deer aren't overly big (stags dressed out at 75 -110kg - Hinds 45-60kg)