6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

[mxgsfmdpx]

I don’t care about the bullets. I want to know what you’re doing with all those animals and how you have so many tags lol.

Haha. Feel free to PM.

 

[Burnt Reynolds]

My nephew filled his via his grandpas tag this year on a coastal fork.

Great program

Congrats to the young hunter and proud dad can’t wait until mine are hunting age

Best part of the program, and our subsequent success, is listening to Jr perfect the art of “hunters embellishment”. 400 yards, not 40. Could only see his eye, not his whole chest. Running hip shot, not kneeling…good stuff! He’s pumped and wants me to burn my 14 points for him next year - I kinda think I might.

 

[Bluumoon]

Here’s a weird one. 109 ELDM exit wound. Didn’t find impact, I’m thinking it was the uphill hard quarting away shot aimed at posterior ribs towards offside shoulder. Golf ball size hole through ribs into front shoulder. Carried grass from the stomach all the way to the offside hide.

 

[Taudisio]

Here’s a weird one. 109 ELDM exit wound. Didn’t find impact, I’m thinking it was the uphill hard quarting away shot aimed at posterior ribs towards offside shoulder. Golf ball size hole through ribs into front shoulder. Carried grass from the stomach all the way to the offside hide.

I may be misreading this, so I’m just clarifying. You couldn’t find the entry hole on a deer you shot?

 

[Marty]

Exit? Or picture of what’s left of bullet?

Yes, I had bullet exit. Pics 0268 and 0269 are the exit side.

 

[Bluumoon]

I may be misreading this, so I’m just clarifying. You couldn’t find the entry hole on a deer you shot?

I don’t find the entry hole from the 2nd shot when bull turned to go over a hill, I did see blood shot section along the abdomen , but didn’t pinpoint entry. To me the explanation is that I may have ruptured the diaphragm w shot 1, shot 2 obviously went through stomach from rear to front and exited front left shoulder. Was wild how much grass was pushed through chest wall and then through the shoulder.

 

[money]

I forgot I had these ones from last year that I could add to this thread. I didn't know about this thread until this year and hadn't thought about these until today.

First one is a cow elk my wife killed last year at 435 yards. Ruger American 6mm Creedmoor, 105 Berger VLD-H going about 2950 at the muzzle. Cow was only one separated slightly from a large group and only shot was quartering to us fairly hard as they were about to run off. The wife put the bullet perfectly on the point of the shoulder. I could tell she hit her, but then she ran into the middle of the herd and I lost her in the shuffle. Cow ran about 40 yards and dropped dead. Didn't do an autopsy but I could tell when gutting her that the bullet had done a tone of damage and worked perfectly.



The weekend prior to my wife's cow elk I was able to help a cousin on his kids' Coues tags. We found a buck bedded at 430 yards and his son was finally able to find him and shoot him in his bed. Buck never moved an inch and died where he laid. Bullet passed completely through. This caused another buck we didn't know about that was hidden in the dense brush to jump to his feet and step out right next to the first buck. We quickly got his daughter on the buck, and she was able to smash him also at 430 yards. Buck jumped and ran about 10 yards and fell over dead. Complete pass through on this buck as well. Ruger American 6mm creed 105 Berger VLD-H.