Thread: Building a big gun?

Originally Posted by saum7

cheers for all the advise guys.
yes I have a 7mm Saum & 284

This year I did fell a bit under gunned tbh that's just my opinion. I lost a good stag which I hit in the front shoulder obviously never found so cannot say 100% it was but im sure of the shot.
my mate also shot a good stag with my 284 at 450M hit it and dropped a few minutes later it was up and walking 2 shots later it was down 2nd wasn't the best placement as it was moving.
at a guess the stag we recovered would have been 130-140kg gutted with head off.

I have shot 2 300 rums now and taken a stag one and it hit like a freight train.
I have also seen at 338 edge at work with the same result.

"front shoulder" is a big area and a deer is obviously a 3 dimensional object. Unless you had gotten to both those animals and autopsied them to see the path the bullets took and what damage they did along the way, two is not a very big sample size to be writing off not just the particular bullet you used but 7mm altogether.

Originally Posted by Pommy

"front shoulder" is a big area and a deer is obviously a 3 dimensional object. Unless you had gotten to both those animals and autopsied them to see the path the bullets took and what damage they did along the way, two is not a very big sample size to be writing off not just the particular bullet you used but 7mm altogether.

I agree, sounds like you want to move to a big gun when what you probably should be doing is maximising using what you already have.

Ie making sure you are using projectiles that will perform at the distances you are shooting at, making sure you and the rifle can acheive a level of precision to put the bullet where you want it, and also learn a bit more about deer anatomy (Flyblown on here has done some good posts on this, deer anatomy and ideal points of aim)

Most the deer ive shot recently dont go far, only a few leaps at best, many poleaxe on the spot, even well out beyond 600 yards. 162gr Amax hitting high and forward in the front shoulder tends to put huge shock into the central nervous system sacking them hard as well as big tissue damage so they bleed out not long after hitting the deck