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    Do you switch projectiles during hunts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TeRei View Post
    Do you switch projectiles during hunts?
    I went out on the quad so I had a 2nd .223 for the ride home.
    Last edited by Tahr; 27-05-2024 at 04:10 AM.
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    Meat collecting for charity tonight. 178 yards. 60 grn Hammer.

    https://youtu.be/wv7ChbAUsmE

    Shot this too. It was in a QE2 covenant.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9DZOZhvhs
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    @stug that was where you and I went. There was one exactly where you shot your 2. I saw about 20.
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    I wondered if it looked a bit familiar.

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    A few yearling fallow with the 75gr eld-m 2920fps.
    My daughters first deer hunt. She shot her first deer. A yearling hind @25m in the trees after waiting for 5min patiently for a clear shot. It was bloody neat listening to the group of fallow talking to each other unaware of us.
    I neck shot the spiker @ 30m a few minutes after the first as they didn't know what was going on.
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    And a yearling spiker I headshot at 120m. It's skull turned to jelly but didn't break the skin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roarless20 View Post
    A few yearling fallow with the 75gr eld-m 2920fps.
    My daughters first deer hunt. She shot her first deer. A yearling hind @25m in the trees after waiting for 5min patiently for a clear shot. It was bloody neat listening to the group of fallow talking to each other unaware of us.
    I neck shot the spiker @ 30m a few minutes after the first as they didn't know what was going on.
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    And a yearling spiker I headshot at 120m. It's skull turned to jelly but didn't break the skin.
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    I here you I’m getting no exits with head shots just soup held by skin 80gn eldm

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    Using 69gr TMK's
    When hunting think safety first

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag View Post
    Using 69gr TMK's
    They are the business. So accurate and deadly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan F View Post
    They are the business. So accurate and deadly.
    They seem pretty good but I do have the 77gr shooting better, I was just out shooting rabbits and possums to use the last of my 69gr up and had just shot a possum when the 2 deer came running across the field heading for the cover of trees.

    If I hadn't knocked the first one over on the run I wouldn't have got either animal.
    Because I only ever had a part box of around 70 I never had a chance to put serious time into developing a tight accurate load hence why I was using them up so I could re-use my new Lapua brass.

    The 69gr obviously do work well on deer going by Friday nights performance however I still like the 62gr Hornady SP's
    When hunting think safety first

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    thats quality Dad n Daughter time right there...awesome result.Love the makeup......thats must have photo for the 21st
    75/15/10 black powder matters

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    thats quality Dad n Daughter time right there...awesome result.Love the makeup......thats must have photo for the 21st
    Cheers MD. It was a great time and she is keen as to go back again. We were with my mate, his wife and their two boys.
    Definitely a proud dad moment.
    Nah no make up, just blacked out our faces on the photo for the open Internet.

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    Great stuff @Roarless20 what a great experience with your daughter, mine use to come out with me until she met boys

    She was a bloody good shot too
    When hunting think safety first

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    75gr eldm on a young buck I shot @220m front of neck. Also a follow up base of head shot @220m as its body was still moving sporadically, which shouldn't happen with a high neck shot.
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    Gees Roarless20 whoever taught you to hunt must have been a mighty good hunter.

 

 

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