Thread: Bullet Performance on game

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Pic2 30yds
Pic 3 240yds
Pic 4 20 yds

Same result. Big holes. Smashed bone.

Results from a .223 55grn Hornady SP around 100 yards

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8pt Sika stag shot @ 9.01pm last night @ 150m in the back of the swede with 20gr CCI 17 HMR Sako . Just folded. Shot downhill aiming top of ears.

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Ballistic tips for me. 140gns. They don’t go far
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I assume that 140gn is in 7mm calibre. All good results. Personally I'll accept a bit of damaged meat vs an animal runs and is lost any day.

Originally Posted by zeropak

I assume that 140gn is in 7mm calibre. All good results. Personally I'll accept a bit of damaged meat vs an animal runs and is lost any day.

Yep i never take front shoulders anyway. Best for dog tucker

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Yep i never take front shoulders anyway. Best for dog tucker

Now I cant really agree with that one. I take as much usable meat as possible off any animal I shoot. I consider that my obligation as a responsible hunter. Those front shoulders can make a great roast cooked low and slow in an oven bag. Or get yourself a meat mincer and turn all that shoulder meat into prime mince. with the Fallow I shoot up here I actually try to place the shot behind or at least on the back edge of the shoulder to preserve all that prime mince. I guess at least
your dogs must be some on the best fed dogs around.

Yeah if they are not shot to buggery which in my case they usually are. Therefore not worth hauling anywhere from 3+ hours to a roadend. With deer numbers the way they are im better off concentrating on edible cuts . I personally dont do mince. I have beefys for that .

A berger'd shoulder.

Rex Forrester in his book recounting his opossum trapping days and shooting deer for meat with his .22.Some times we forget many older NZ'ers killed significant quatities of deer with "humble" rifles.

Originally Posted by TeRei

Rex Forrester in his book recounting his opossum trapping days and shooting deer for meat with his .22.Some times we forget many older NZ'ers killed significant quatities of deer with "humble" rifles.

I havent done it YET...have done it with .12ga and with .22magnum just not the .22lr YET.....

I would imagine many opportunities would have been had if rimfires were allowed to be used on doc/public land.

Spoke to an old farmer many years back who was involved with breaking in back country HB and indeed establishing his own farm. End of day scrub cutting quiet stroll with 22 using shorts [not sure if still common round] because that was all they had. Into the ear and cart back on the back of the tractor.

@TeRei unfortunately the old timers who tell you things like that, forget to mention how many times the bullet didn't hit the exact spot required to kill a deer with a 22 short and a deer ran away only wounded

I used factory 225 grain Hornady cartridges initially, which had a lot of speed. It spoiled the meat a lot. He had to give shots in the head or behind the paddle, so as not to lose meat, but the shots behind the paddle did not cause a quick death to the animal, unnecessary suffering. Since I started reloading, I have been using Hornady Interlock SP or RN tips, weighing 250 grains, at a speed of approximately 2300 ft / sec. They do not break the meat. I'm a cultist of African theory, heavy bullets at low speed.

Originally Posted by Ackley

@TeRei unfortunately the old timers who tell you things like that, forget to mention how many times the bullet didn't hit the exact spot required to kill a deer with a 22 short and a deer ran away only wounded

Can’t say I’m an old timer, only 60,but shot my first deer with .22lr as a 15 year old. Shot a few more over the years with .22, a few with sub-sonics, but never tried with shorts. Don’t think I’d try either unless it was freaking close. Haven’t lost a deer with .22lr, have with .303. Got complacent I guess.