Thread: 223 on deer

A couple at 200 odd yards for the soup kitchen. Shitty night but still a good choice over watching the rugby test on TV.

60 grn Hammer Hunters at 3280 fps.



First shot was the yearling. Broadside lung shot. It bolted without any sign of hit and folded after about 15 yards. Pretty much what I would expect from a rear lung shot:

Exit


Lungs


Mum ran up hill 30 yards and stood barking, face on to me. She copped one slightly off centre in the front of the arm pit at a slight angle. Pretty much folded on spot:

Broken hearted

Got 2 of those early this morning. Calm and cool at 6 degrees. Yearling had a mohawk between the ears and the hind got flattened in the neck. 53 gr Barnes. Stupidly carried them out whole.Ferry uphill all the way. 2 hours and 7 minutes later collapsed at truck. The ICEYTEK coffee mug was still warm. Offal now in dehydrator for 8 hours. Dogs just love it. They have never been a fan on raw offal but the dry stuff they take your fingers off.

Originally Posted by TeRei

Got 2 of those early this morning. Calm and cool at 6 degrees. Yearling had a mohawk between the ears and the hind got flattened in the neck. 53 gr Barnes. Stupidly carried them out whole.Ferry uphill all the way. 2 hours and 7 minutes later collapsed at truck. The ICEYTEK coffee mug was still warm. Offal now in dehydrator for 8 hours. Dogs just love it. They have never been a fan on raw offal but the dry stuff they take your fingers off.

Good. I said to you about 15 years ago on the old forum "it's time you bought a camera" What parts of the offal? [later: saw the answer in another thread]

2 x 77grn TMK's at 100 yds is a bit brutal.
Got some lovely venison though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VxwTVo3yjc

Pretty fancy bolt. Into bling bro? Nice shooting .

Originally Posted by TeRei

Pretty fancy bolt. Into bling bro? Nice shooting .

Its like your ear-ring but I wanted something classy

Joking aside, they are titanium and have a vey good feel to them.

Originally Posted by TeRei

Pretty fancy bolt. Into bling bro? Nice shooting .

Just noticed it...almost croc like... Ducking for cover now.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Just noticed it...almost croc like... Ducking for cover now.

Its to go with the Bahco knife.

Not a normal scope but thermal in day time?

Originally Posted by TeRei

Not a normal scope but thermal in day time?

It's a day/night scope. https://dntoptics.com/products/zhd52...tic-calculator

I processed a large Fallow doe today. It revealed text book performance.
The bullet was a 60 grn Hammer Hunter at 3280fps from a 20" barrel .223, the range was about 200 yards and she was quartering towards me. The bullet struck her through the bottom joint of her leading shoulder. It split the heart.

This pic is of the inside of the shoulder (nothing was recoverable really).



This is looking inside at the bullet entry through the ribs under the shoulder. You can see the main entry and a petal entry. The petals are designed to fly off on impact and the shank to drive through.



And here is the shank which I found under the skin in the off side flank. This is how it is meant to look - minus the petals like this.

What I read is that you must continue to generate speed as much as possible to ensure the petals fold. That is not a wound it is devastation.

It's an impressively large wound

Farkin heel mate.might as well have used a .270 lol. Yip that's deader than a dead thing. Great terminal performance,you got to destroy stuff to let the red stuff out n daylight in. I'm rather impressed by that.