Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by striker

You meaning @Springy 's post? @Ross Nolan?

@robhughes-games

Yes indeed

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

Yes indeed

Yeah looks like HG Precisions work, I had Rob make me up an Elude buttstock for a chassis I have, Not a nice rubber pad like that one though

Be curious to hear comparisons between the 77 TMKs and ELDM's for body shots?

Originally Posted by earplay

Be curious to hear comparisons between the 77 TMKs and ELDM's for body shots?

I've used both 73 ELDM and 77tmk both are awesome on deer shot a few reds out to 250m shoulder shot.
Only reason I use tmk is they shoot better out to 600m.
The 73 ELDM punch through a red hind at 250M shoulder shot.

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Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

I've used both 73 ELDM and 77tmk both are awesome on deer shot a few reds out to 250m shoulder shot.
Only reason I use tmk is they shoot better out to 600m.
The 73 ELDM punch through a red hind at 250M shoulder shot.

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That has definitely not been my experience with the 73ELDM's. I have shot Fallow out to 420m and never had a projectile that didn't expand fully. There is almost always no exit wound except on yearlings.

Originally Posted by zeropak

That has definitely not been my experience with the 73ELDM's. I have shot Fallow out to 420m and never had a projectile that didn't expand fully. There is almost always no exit wound except on yearlings.

The 73's are violent at high impact velocities, that's for sure

Originally Posted by zeropak

That has definitely not been my experience with the 73ELDM's. I have shot Fallow out to 420m and never had a projectile that didn't expand fully. There is almost always no exit wound except on yearlings.

When I say punched through I should have said punched through the shoulder into the lungs and destroyed everything.
Another was an angled shot on a hind heading away shot what I thought was a bit far back, pushed through the start of the gut and destroyed the lungs and it did exit.
This really impressed me as the hind only went about 10M.

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Originally Posted by striker

You meaning @Springy 's post? @Ross Nolan?

@robhughes-games

Yip Rob HG Precision

Originally Posted by Springy

Yip Rob HG Precision

Thank you.

Just shot 3 x fallow with 75g eldm. Shoulder shots 22ARC but near enough to 223. None of the 3 staggered more than a few meters. 2 definitley had about 30mm exit wounds and the lungs came out in multiple pieces. Can't comment on the meat damage as I gave them away. Very happy with the performance

So this isn't exactly one for the record books - let's just say it looked a lot bigger in the scope... 280m in the Ruahines in the weekend, 75 ELDM going just over 2700fps. A dodgy top-of-the-leatherwood rest sent the first shot a little far back, but the 2nd shot in the shoulder folded it up like a book. Strange to find an animal of this size around this time of year - guessing it's less than 6 months old. The meat all went to a mate who was tagging along - "the young ones taste the best" was my sales pitch.

Originally Posted by earplay

So this isn't exactly one for the record books - let's just say it looked a lot bigger in the scope... 280m in the Ruahines in the weekend, 75 ELDM going just over 2700fps. A dodgy top-of-the-leatherwood rest sent the first shot a little far back, but the 2nd shot in the shoulder folded it up like a book. Strange to find an animal of this size around this time of year - guessing it's less than 6 months old. The meat all went to a mate who was tagging along - "the young ones taste the best" was my sales pitch.

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Im guessing it's similar to what I observed with the fallow on my place. The really well conditioned and early fawns would come into season around mid June. Get in fawn and then have these shitty little out of season runts born jan /feb. And due to timing they would be dragging mum down through winter, when she's hardly capable of looking after herself. Its probably older than it looks.

I’d say it’s mother was shot when it was young they always end up runts

Originally Posted by Fat ninja

I’d say it’s mother was shot when it was young they always end up runts

I have shot them the size of a large hare. Without mum at an early age they wither in development.

Originally Posted by earplay

So this isn't exactly one for the record books - let's just say it looked a lot bigger in the scope... 280m in the Ruahines in the weekend, 75 ELDM going just over 2700fps. A dodgy top-of-the-leatherwood rest sent the first shot a little far back, but the 2nd shot in the shoulder folded it up like a book. Strange to find an animal of this size around this time of year - guessing it's less than 6 months old. The meat all went to a mate who was tagging along - "the young ones taste the best" was my sales pitch.

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A lot of the deer in southern, mid Ruahines are not in good shape, especially the further in you go. WARO have given up in a few places because the carcass weights aren’t high enough.