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Will
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Thought I would mention this even though this is a cast bullet site.
If anyone is looking for a great j-bullet for hunting thin skinned game the .308 165gr Sierra BTHP with the weird looking crimp on the end works great.
This is the best blood trail I have ever followed.
If anyone is looking for a great j-bullet for hunting thin skinned game the .308 165gr Sierra BTHP with the weird looking crimp on the end works great.
This is the best blood trail I have ever followed.
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freebullet
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The 168smk works about the same. Bout 3.5" exit
Will
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I was surprised when I seen it to. It was a directly behind the should shot that cut the top of the heart off. The exit side was low and behind the shoulder so there wasn’t nothing to hold it in.
No meat damage though. I can’t imagine the damage from one of these with a shoulder hit though.
Plan on taking one with cast bullets Friday morning. I have given up horn hunting this year after sitting in a stand for 5 hours every morning for the last 12 days.
No meat damage though. I can’t imagine the damage from one of these with a shoulder hit though.
Plan on taking one with cast bullets Friday morning. I have given up horn hunting this year after sitting in a stand for 5 hours every morning for the last 12 days.
Dang Will,that IS an impressive blood trail.
I shot a decent buck one time years ago broadside,dbl lunged @15 yds with my 629.... 180g XTP loaded fulltilt with Blue Dot. Blood sprayed the waist high straw grass on both sides like coming out a garden hose. Yours looks like pouring it out a bucket!
I shot a decent buck one time years ago broadside,dbl lunged @15 yds with my 629.... 180g XTP loaded fulltilt with Blue Dot. Blood sprayed the waist high straw grass on both sides like coming out a garden hose. Yours looks like pouring it out a bucket!
Pistolero
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Can't do that for long. My zebra did similarly, fell in about 25 yds. Drew two breaths after
we reached it. At each inhale a finger diameter stream -70 of blood shot out a foot from the
wound at the base of the neck. Two breaths and done. The .45-70 bullet had cut the aorta
right where it entered (or exited, actually) the top of the heart.
No doubt you got that one. Must have hit the pump or a main pipe.
Bill
we reached it. At each inhale a finger diameter stream -70 of blood shot out a foot from the
wound at the base of the neck. Two breaths and done. The .45-70 bullet had cut the aorta
right where it entered (or exited, actually) the top of the heart.
No doubt you got that one. Must have hit the pump or a main pipe.
Bill
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oscarflytyer
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so... SINCE you ASKED! Went to the range today..., with 2 of my 5 boys, and a great family friend and his son, home from the Navy (my #5/Army comes home in Dec - expect to rinse and repeat!). We took up three shooting lanes, shot all kindsa stuff - new and OLD! AND, then, did a "turkey shoot" - 10 rds/15 yds/Full Auto AK 47!!! Closest to the X wins the turkey! My son #4 and Navy kid were into a shootout, when another guy came in an smoked 'em and won the turkey. But it was all good! Best time I have had in a long time!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
My wife had an Afghan. Our problem was when she got loose, she was gone and it took hours to get her back and she was a deer chaser. Only place we could run her was within the town tennis courts. I think there were 4 courts, maybe it was 2. Anyway, she loved that. Weird dog, more cat than dog personality-wise.
Hawk
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Afghan Hounds were originally bred to hunt Cheetahs. They love to run and boy ,was mine fast.
Running was his favorite thing to do.
They are also very loyal. My daughter was two when we found ours. She would trip on his long legs when he was laying down and fall all over him, knees and elbows into him everywhere.. He would just nuzzle her to make sure she was okay and then roll away to untangle and get up.
Hawk
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I think mine realized I had saved him from dying in the woods. Vet thought he had been tied to that tree for about two weeks. It rained a lot those weeks and he was drinking water from mud puddles he was standing in.
We had him for ten years and every night he slept up against my side of the bed.
He really was a great dog. loyal and obedient as they come. Very protective of us, but not aggressive.
We had him for ten years and every night he slept up against my side of the bed.
He really was a great dog. loyal and obedient as they come. Very protective of us, but not aggressive.
RBHarter
West Central AR
Finally got home just in time for the feast of gluttony .
The thermostat housing leaked a drip for a fuel stop or 2 .
The water pump hemorrhaged and I had to pull it down and make that gasket .
The truck had set several years . I'm suspect that the 7.3 diesel rattled stuff loose inside and kicked the electrolytic stuff into hyper drive and just packed up the radiator . New radiator .......ice cold all they way in . So now I have 2 super industrial 7 core copper radiators for overhaul . Have to do the injector hoses now in both trucks .
Dinner was uneventful , ham , turkey , chicken and dumplings , 12 hr nap no pies, although there was pumpkin , apple , blackberry , cherry and pee can .
The thermostat housing leaked a drip for a fuel stop or 2 .
The water pump hemorrhaged and I had to pull it down and make that gasket .
The truck had set several years . I'm suspect that the 7.3 diesel rattled stuff loose inside and kicked the electrolytic stuff into hyper drive and just packed up the radiator . New radiator .......ice cold all they way in . So now I have 2 super industrial 7 core copper radiators for overhaul . Have to do the injector hoses now in both trucks .
Dinner was uneventful , ham , turkey , chicken and dumplings , 12 hr nap no pies, although there was pumpkin , apple , blackberry , cherry and pee can .
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freebullet
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Mmm, so it was the radiator, in part. Our big blocks don't tolerate those issues well either.
I don't think they make the hard lines for those 7.3's anymore. While not a diesel guy at all, a friend was collecting those off anything he could salvage them from because of availability issues, a few years back.
Best of luck.
I don't think they make the hard lines for those 7.3's anymore. While not a diesel guy at all, a friend was collecting those off anything he could salvage them from because of availability issues, a few years back.
Best of luck.
