Kill pictures from cartridges above 6.5 Creed???

[BLJ]

Seems definitive.

 

[Erussell01]

270 win- 30 yard shot distance. 130 grain partition at a touch over 3000 at the muzzle.

Left the poor boy broken hearted.

As tight to the shoulder as possible. Bullet size entrance, 1 inch exit with fist size hole in the ribs

 

[sierracharlie338]

My recent pronghorn hunt with the 140 Berger EH. 6.5 PRC. Not shooting these bullets ever again....... Critical damage.....insane.

Gotta put those EHs behind the shoulder when possible. Did the same on a small Texas whitetail.

 

[HunterGatherer]

Crazy how many people will obliterate the front half of the animal and call it “good” bullet performance

 

[JGRaider]

Crazy how many people will obliterate the front half of the animal and call it “good” bullet performance

Agree. Baffling at best.

 

[longrangelead]

Average muley doe, 435yds broadside, 6.5PRC/ 156 @ 2940. it's been a while so I don't recall this one but none have gone more than 30-40 yards after hit.


minimal wasted meat and dead quick.

Muley buck, 325 yds, 338 Edge/300 OTM @2975
not quite broadside, entry on point of shoulder, bullet caught under hide behind off side shoulder. video'd the shot, buck went 40ish feet and was dead. Time from hit to death was 5 seconds. He was dead before the echos of the shot died in the canyon.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Average muley doe, 435yds broadside, 6.5PRC/ 156 @ 2940. it's been a while so I don't recall this one but none have gone more than 30-40 yards after hit.
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minimal wasted meat and dead quick.

Muley buck, 325 yds, 338 Edge/300 OTM @2975
not quite broadside, entry on point of shoulder, bullet caught under hide behind off side shoulder. video'd the shot, buck went 40ish feet and was dead. Time from hit to death was 5 seconds. He was dead before the echos of the shot died in the canyon.
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I am pretty amazed that the 300 gr OTM did not exit.

 

[longrangelead]

I am pretty amazed that the 300 gr OTM did not exit.

I was too.

 

[buffybr]

I like pictures and I got time.

For many of my early years of hunting I didn't carry a camera, and after I did start carrying one, I only took a "hero" pic or two and didn't take any "blood and gore" pictures.

For my first 10 years of hunting, I shot most animals from prairie dogs to elk with my .30-06.

Then in 1977 I had my .30-06 re-chambered to .30 Gibbs, and I built a .257 Ackley and a .22-250. For the next 20 some years, my .30 Gibbs was my primary elk rifle, along with a couple of Montana Shiras moose and mountain goat, and an Alaskan caribou.

In 2000 I borrowed a Rem 700 ADL in 7mm RM for my first South African hunt and took 9 Plains Game animals with it, including this Kudu and Limpopo Bushbuck.

I then bought that rifle and then used it on an Arctic hunt in Canada's Northwest Territory for this Canadian BG Caribou and Muskox, which both qualified for the B&C All Time Record Book.

In 2005 I traded that 7mm RM Rem ADL for another 7mm RM in their BDL model, and I built another Rem 700 BDL in a .375 RUM, and took both of them on a hunt in Zimbabwe and South Africa, taking multiple animals with each one, including this Nyala and Black Wildebeest with the 7mm RM and this Cape Buffalo and Chobe Bushbuck with my .375 RUM.

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[BLJ]

That’s quite a collection of fine animals.

Thank you for your contribution to the discussion.

 

[Kimber7man]

For many of my early years of hunting I didn't carry a camera, and after I did start carrying one, I only took a "hero" pic or two and didn't take any "blood and gore" pictures.

For my first 10 years of hunting, I shot most animals from prairie dogs to elk with my .30-06.

Then in 1977 I had my .30-06 re-chambered to .30 Gibbs, and I built a .257 Ackley and a .22-250. For the next 20 some years, my .30 Gibbs was my primary elk rifle, along with a couple of Montana Shiras moose and mountain goat, and an Alaskan caribou.

In 2000 I borrowed a Rem 700 ADL in 7mm RM for my first South African hunt and took 9 Plains Game animals with it, including this Kudu and Limpopo Bushbuck.

I then bought that rifle and then used it on an Arctic hunt in Canada's Northwest Territory for this Canadian BG Caribou and Muskox, which both qualified for the B&C All Time Record Book.

In 2005 I traded that 7mm RM Rem ADL for another 7mm RM in their BDL model, and I built another Rem 700 BDL in a .375 RUM, and took both of them on a hunt in Zimbabwe and South Africa, taking multiple animals with each one, including this Nyala and Black Wildebeest with the 7mm RM and this Cape Buffalo and Chobe Bushbuck with my .375 RUM.

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Always admired your hunting prowess over on the ‘Fire, glad to see you post over here!

 

[JGRaider]

Always admired your hunting prowess over on the ‘Fire, glad to see you post over here!

Agree.....buffy knows his way around the block quite well.

 

[Fetty Wapiti]

Did a number on this one. 300 PRC, didn't go 20

 

[buffybr]

Continuation of my hunts with > 6.5 cartridges...

In 2007 I returned to South Africa with my .375 RUM rifle and taking 13 PG animals including this Cape Eland, Tsessebe, Cape Bushbuck, and a 200+ yd prone shot on this Vaal Rhebok.

For many years, my 'behind the shoulder' shots on elk with my .30 Gibbs and 180 gr Nosler Partition bullets would leave about a 12" diameter of bloodshot mess in the front of the animals' ribcages. Then, after wanting one for over 40 years, in 2009 I built my first Weatherby rifle, a Vanguard in .300 Wby. In the fall of the next year, I shot my first elk with my new .300 Wby, shooting a 168 gr Barnes TSX bullet. The shot was broadside, just behind his shoulder, at about 100 yards.

So finally, a blood and gore picture!
The first pic shows the .30 caliber entrance hole through the hide, the .300 Wby case, and the very small area of bloodshot in the ribcage.

The next pic shows the small area of bloodshot tissue where the bullet exited the ribcage and about a 1" hole in the hide where the bullet exited.

The bull ran 3 steps and fell dead.

I brought my .300 Wby with 168 gr Barnes TSX bullets on a hunt in the Limpopo Provence of South Africa in 2012 for 6 animals including this Sable, a 290 yard shot on this Klipspringer, and a 310 yard shot on this Baboon.

In 2014 I took my .300 Wby shooting 168 gr Barnes TTSX bullets on a hunt in New Zealand for Red Stag, Fallow deer, and Himalayan Tahr.

I went to Mozambique in 2015 for a hunt for Leopard and Roosevelt Sable. I hunted with my .300 Wby shooting 168 gr TTSX bullets. I shot a few smaller animals for camp meat and Leopard bait and shot this beautiful male Leopard the second night out, but for the first time in 50 years of big game hunting, I couldn't hold my rifle steady enough for what should have been an easy shot at what my guide said was a "monster" bull sable.

So, I went back to Mozambique the next year, again with my .300 Wby and 168 gr Barnes TTSX bullets and was able to bring home this bull Roosevelt Sable.

After almost 50 years of wanting a Mountain Lion and just buying a tag most years "in case I would run into one" while hunting deer or elk (I've seen 3 within 1/4 mile of my house), I finally booked a hound hunt in western Colorado in December of 2015. I had hoped to kill it with my .44 magnum pistol, but after his dogs treed the lion, it took us a while to get to the tree, and since he had treed in a limby Pinion tree where the dogs were getting too close to him, my guide asked me to shoot him with my .30-30 Winchester. (The blood on my hand is mine, from scrambling up the brushy hillside getting to him.)

I made two big hunts in 2017. The first was in Azerbaijan for a Dagestan Tur. The mountain ridge divide not far above us was the border between Azerbaijan and Russia, and my 71 year old body didn't go up and down those steep mountain slopes as easy as it did 30-40 years earlier when I did most of my Montana and Canada sheep and goat hunting.

A 327 yard shot with a 180 gr Barnes TTSX bullet from my .300 Wby sent him tumbling down the slope in a cloud of dust.

I then traveled to Quebec for the last year that non-residents could hunt a Quebec-Labrador Caribou. It was a great fly-in camp where it was supposed to be a trophy hunt with 2 hunters per guide, but one of the guides got sick, so we were 3 hunters per guide.

On opening morning, the 4 of us were crossing the lake behind camp and the guide asked who would get the first shot. One of the other hunters suggested that the oldest hunter should shoot first. Lucky me! Since I had hunted caribou before, I was picky about what bull I would shoot and turned down many. We saw a lot of caribou and that afternoon I finally saw a bull that I liked. A 160 gr Nosler Accubond bullet from my 7mm RM got me a bull caribou of my dreams and another spot in the B&C Record Books.

In 2019 I booked a self-guided hunt with a hunting transporter on Kodiak Is, AK, and got this Sitka Blacktail buck with a 150 gr Sierra GameKing bullet from my ,308 Wby Vanguard. I shot him on the shore of the bay, and while waiting for the transporter boat to come pick us up, I enjoyed throwing scraps of the deer into the bay where Bald Eagles and sea gulls would pick them up.

I booked an Alaskan Brown Bear and Moose hunt in 2021 and dug my .375 RUM out from the back of my gun safe for this hunt. It took several Hammer 281 gr bullets to keep him from jumping into the river and put him down. His meat and intestines were full of worms. We didn't see any moose.

In 2022 I booked a Canadian Moose hunt in northern Alberta, but because I refused to get the Covid jab, I couldn't cross into Canada until '23. By the 4th day of a 7 day hunt, we hadn't seen any moose, and because I had come home with just tag soup on my previous Newfoundland and Alaska moose hunts, when this guy came out of the brush, I put a 180 gr Barnes TTSX bullet from my .300 Wby behind his shoulder and brought home two large coolers of moose meat.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

Continuation of my hunts with > 6.5 cartridges...

In 2007 I returned to South Africa with my .375 RUM rifle and taking 13 PG animals including this Cape Eland, Tsessebe, Cape Bushbuck, and a 200+ yd prone shot on this Vaal Rhebok.

For many years, my 'behind the shoulder' shots on elk with my .30 Gibbs and 180 gr Nosler Partition bullets would leave about a 12" diameter of bloodshot mess in the front of the animals' ribcages. Then, after wanting one for over 40 years, in 2009 I built my first Weatherby rifle, a Vanguard in .300 Wby. In the fall of the next year, I shot my first elk with my new .300 Wby, shooting a 168 gr Barnes TSX bullet. The shot was broadside, just behind his shoulder, at about 100 yards.

So finally, a blood and gore picture!
The first pic shows the .30 caliber entrance hole through the hide, the .300 Wby case, and the very small area of bloodshot in the ribcage.

The next pic shows the small area of bloodshot tissue where the bullet exited the ribcage and about a 1" hole in the hide where the bullet exited.

The bull ran 3 steps and fell dead.

I brought my .300 Wby with 168 gr Barnes TSX bullets on a hunt in the Limpopo Provence of South Africa in 2012 for 6 animals including this Sable, a 290 yard shot on this Klipspringer, and a 310 yard shot on this Baboon.

In 2014 I took my .300 Wby shooting 168 gr Barnes TTSX bullets on a hunt in New Zealand for Red Stag, Fallow deer, and Himalayan Tahr.

I went to Mozambique in 2015 for a hunt for Leopard and Roosevelt Sable. I hunted with my .300 Wby shooting 168 gr TTSX bullets. I shot a few smaller animals for camp meat and Leopard bait and shot this beautiful male Leopard the second night out, but for the first time in 50 years of big game hunting, I couldn't hold my rifle steady enough for what should have been an easy shot at what my guide said was a "monster" bull sable.

So, I went back to Mozambique the next year, again with my .300 Wby and 168 gr Barnes TTSX bullets and was able to bring home this bull Roosevelt Sable.

After almost 50 years of wanting a Mountain Lion and just buying a tag most years "in case I would run into one" while hunting deer or elk (I've seen 3 within 1/4 mile of my house), I finally booked a hound hunt in western Colorado in December of 2015. I had hoped to kill it with my .44 magnum pistol, but after his dogs treed the lion, it took us a while to get to the tree, and since he had treed in a limby Pinion tree where the dogs were getting too close to him, my guide asked me to shoot him with my .30-30 Winchester. (The blood on my hand is mine, from scrambling up the brushy hillside getting to him.)

I made two big hunts in 2017. The first was in Azerbaijan for a Dagestan Tur. The mountain ridge divide not far above us was the border between Azerbaijan and Russia, and my 71 year old body didn't go up and down those steep mountain slopes as easy as it did 30-40 years earlier when I did most of my Montana and Canada sheep and goat hunting.

A 327 yard shot with a 180 gr Barnes TTSX bullet from my .300 Wby sent him tumbling down the slope in a cloud of dust.

I then traveled to Quebec for the last year that non-residents could hunt a Quebec-Labrador Caribou. It was a great fly-in camp where it was supposed to be a trophy hunt with 2 hunters per guide, but one of the guides got sick, so we were 3 hunters per guide.

On opening morning, the 4 of us were crossing the lake behind camp and the guide asked who would get the first shot. One of the other hunters suggested that the oldest hunter should shoot first. Lucky me! Since I had hunted caribou before, I was picky about what bull I would shoot and turned down many. We saw a lot of caribou and that afternoon I finally saw a bull that I liked. A 160 gr Nosler Accubond bullet from my 7mm RM got me a bull caribou of my dreams and another spot in the B&C Record Books.

In 2019 I booked a self-guided hunt with a hunting transporter on Kodiak Is, AK, and got this Sitka Blacktail buck with a 150 gr Sierra GameKing bullet from my ,308 Wby Vanguard. I shot him on the shore of the bay, and while waiting for the transporter boat to come pick us up, I enjoyed throwing scraps of the deer into the bay where Bald Eagles and sea gulls would pick them up.

I booked an Alaskan Brown Bear and Moose hunt in 2021 and dug my .375 RUM out from the back of my gun safe for this hunt. It took several Hammer 281 gr bullets to keep him from jumping into the river and put him down. His meat and intestines were full of worms. We didn't see any moose.

In 2022 I booked a Canadian Moose hunt in northern Alberta, but because I refused to get the Covid jab, I couldn't cross into Canada until '23. By the 4th day of a 7 day hunt, we hadn't seen any moose, and because I had come home with just tag soup on my previous Newfoundland and Alaska moose hunts, when this guy came out of the brush, I put a 180 gr Barnes TTSX bullet from my .300 Wby behind his shoulder and brought home two large coolers of moose meat.

That was fun to read through thanks for sharing, and congrats on some incredible creatures in some neat places

 

[BLJ]

@buffybr

For clarification.
Do you think that cartridges larger than 6.5 Creedmoor are a viable option?





Really appreciate you taking the time to post all the pictures and information.
Thanks again.

 

[SC HUNTER]

@buffybr is a certified killer!! Thank you for the stories and pictures! I imagine your taxidermy collection is impressive.

 

[Neilbob]

I shot this hog with a 7mm WSM and a 160 grain federal fusion going about 2,900. Blew part of the heart out the exit and had a pretty decent blood trail .

 

[SC HUNTER]

I shot this hog with a 7mm WSM and a 160 grain federal fusion going about 2,900. Blew part of the heart out the exit and had a pretty decent blood trail .

I'm glad you were able to work that track out and find it.

 

[CJ_BG]

Crazy how many people will obliterate the front half of the animal and call it “good” bullet performance

hard to kill things faster with a smaller hole