258218 out hole of speer 170grn round nose. Lost maybe cup full of shoulder meat. Right projectiles in right place.
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:44 PM
Taken me the best part of thirty-five years to get me a royal... Yip one very short tine bey/trey? But he is all mine,public land bush stalked stag. My young bitch did ok tagging along.she had told...
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:44 PM
Posted in the taxidermy section already but thought I'd put in her too. A very memorable hunt with my old man back in July produced this great buck. Still stoked with him, almost ready to come inside...
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:42 PM
Another stag for Spence and a respectable fallow buck for myself, as seen in the magazine section. 258235 258236
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:41 PM
Probably why Tony Orman ,and others ,suggests hitting shoulder bones is best practise with the hundy grain loads
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:39 PM
The 100gr Norma was always too hard. No expansion.
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:38 PM
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Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:37 PM
Yes the good old 243, it’s a great calibre , accurate, light recoil, cheaper to load for compared to magnums. When I was in the F.S and meat hunting after that the 243 was my main rifle, it did...
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:37 PM
I loose shooting my little .243 single shot, it kills everything I point it at, and very easy to shoot. I was worried about using it during the past two roars but it did the damage, can’t complain....
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:36 PM
Shot shit tonnes of deer when we were down south with 243, mostly fallow but few reds too, most with 85gr tsx worked great
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:35 PM
My first centrefire was a 243win. An absolute pos BSA. My latest one is a 1:8 twist Tikka shooting 108gn ELD-Ms. As yet I have only shot a handful of animals with it at distances from 25 to 388...
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:30 PM
I had a very exciting time on that very slip 30 years ago when driver got distracted crossing it. 5 hours later and a bit of work and we were away again.
Liked On: 03-09-2024, 03:18 PM
Actual specific bullet function matters much, much more than the 3 digits stamped on the brass. You cannot compare a 50-55gr basic SP (old .222 fodder) to a more modern heavy-for-calibre bullet...
Liked On: 02-09-2024, 11:05 PM
One time we were in after they had taken WARO 400 deer out the week before We still saw plenty of animals It not like we were neat hunting and we could afford to be fussy I mostly hunted...
Liked On: 02-09-2024, 11:03 PM
I used to go in every winter for a week Great times had But it all turned to shit a few years ago Very sad because a nice piece of country with moderate animal numbers But access became...
Liked On: 02-09-2024, 11:01 PM