Hey all, I haven’t been contributing on here for a couple months, life has been pretty busy. Filled my final tag last night so thought I would make a post about what I’ve been shooting this fall. I built a 18” 22 ARC AR a couple months ago and that’s what I have used for everything since. Shooting factory 88 ELDM ammo.
Deer #1: yearling whitetail buck, quartering towards me at about 120 yards. I didn’t realize he was quartering so hard and shot a little far back, hit one lung and destroyed the stomach, he ran around 60 yards. Not much of a blood trail, there was a large exit hole but it was full of stomach contents. No pics as I was in a hurry and didn’t have enough gloves to be taking them off to take pics.
Deer #2: whitetail deer at 95 yards, shot in the head. Dropped in her tracks as expected.
Shot four hogs at 40 to 50 yards, three were chest shot with two of them dropping where they stood, the other one ran around 15 yards. The fourth was shot in the hindquarters and finished of with a headshot. They were all big hogs, probably 225 plus pounds. All three chest shots exited, I didn’t cut into the chest to look at the lungs on any of them.
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Exit on one of the hogs.
Deer #3: mule deer doe at 363 yards, broadside shot behind the shoulder. She traveled around 40 yards after the shot, left a very easy to follow blood trail.
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Entrance side with shoulder removed, no meat loss on the shoulder.
Deer #4: mule deer buck at 130 yards, high shoulder broadside shot. He made it about 10 yards, very quick kill
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Entrance
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Entrance side under the shoulder. Broke a ribe on the exit side, found most of the bullet under the hide.
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The 88s also seem to do the job on coyotes. As long as you don’t plan on saving hides