Thread: Hornady Interlock 140gr BTSP - .277cal

Are yes that would be my dyslexia kicking in there @257weatherby sorry about that what I should have said was.
"I using Hornady Interlock SP 139g 7mm/.284 in my 7x57".
Now that that is cleared up Ill go dig out that spent round I have and post it.

I must say they make a hell of a mess on fox's, totally gutted the last one.

Also the Muntjac that I shot she dropped without so much as a kick. The hart was lying on the ground on the off side sucked exit wound was a 2" hole if that. They are a very muscular deer a right bugger to skin. Both front legs where a write off the entrance wound was also quite big and I thought that it might have been a surface failure. But in hindsight after looking at the exit wound I just think that this round smashed bone which pushed back out making the entrance wound seem bigger than what it was. The hart being on the ground next to her was lacerated with bone fragments. I feel this was from the entrance shoulder and not the exit. If this makes sense.
This pic shows the entrance wound.

The last two fallow buck both raking shots in through the left hand side, just behind the front leg. First one ran around 4 meters max. This is the one which I recovered the round from. Clean through the hart so he was dead on his feet. The round was found just under the skin on the right hand shoulder pit low down.

The last buck which is posted here https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....-2022-a-79074/ was shot going away again the round entered through the left hand side just back from the front leg. It then travelled forward straight through the hart, lungs and smashed into the lower right hand side neck just off where the oesophagus comes through into the chest cavity.

Of this round all I found was fragments. Just grains of lead around the neck area. I think that the jacket would have been in with the offal. No exit wound.

Cheers