Kill pictures from cartridges above 6.5 Creed???

[JGRaider]

hard to kill things faster with a smaller hole

This was a fast kill. Do you consider this good bullet performance?

 

[buffybr]

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

In 1988 I married a woman with two kids. My house was a 1900 sf tri level with 3 bedrooms. At that time I only had 11 taxidermy mounts, and had them in my Living and Dining Rooms. My new wife said that my house was too small, so I spent the next 2 years adding a 2 story, 2000 sf addition onto it.

The top story of the addition is a 30' x 35' cathedral ceiling Trophy Room with a wet bar, and downstairs I made 2 bedrooms, a bath and a half, a walk-in closet, and a Family Room. That marriage lasted 10 years, and what should have been a simple division of property divorce, she dragged out for 2 years and cost me about what a full bag Tanzania hunt would cost.

As I showed in my previous posts, I've had some great hunts in the last 25 years. My Trophy room is FULL, with 80 mounts, including 2 fish and a pheasant. My Living Room is also full with another 12 mounts. I'm planning to remodel it with a higher ceiling to give me a little more wall space.

Here's the east wall and bar of my Trophy Room...

The south wall...

The west wall...

And the north wall...

Then the east wall of my Living Room...

The north and part of the west walls...

And the other part of the west wall...

 

[buffybr]

This was a fast kill. Do you consider this good bullet performance?View attachment 964770

I've always gutted my animals from UNDER the stomach

 

[BLJ]

In 1988 I married a woman with two kids. My house was a 1900 sf tri level with 3 bedrooms. At that time I only had 11 taxidermy mounts, and had them in my Living and Dining Rooms. My new wife said that my house was too small, so I spent the next 2 years adding a 2 story, 2000 sf addition onto it.

The top story of the addition is a 30' x 35' cathedral ceiling Trophy Room with a wet bar, and downstairs I made 2 bedrooms, a bath and a half, a walk-in closet, and a Family Room. That marriage lasted 10 years, and what should have been a simple division of property divorce, she dragged out for 2 years and cost me about what a full bag Tanzania hunt would cost.

As I showed in my previous posts, I've had some great hunts in the last 25 years. My Trophy room is FULL, with 80 mounts, including 2 fish and a pheasant. My Living Room is also full with another 12 mounts. I'm planning to remodel it with a higher ceiling to give me a little more wall space.

Here's the east wall and bar of my Trophy Room...

The south wall...

The west wall...

And the north wall...

Then the east wall of my Living Room...

The north and part of the west walls...

And the other part of the west wall...

That’s some pretty serious flex.

Any idea how many were above a 6.5 Creedmoor? Any 223?

Thanks again

 

[SC HUNTER]

The past 25 years this man has been trying to make sure every animal species knows he's their daddy!

 

[JGRaider]

The past 25 years this man has been trying to make sure every animal species knows he's their daddy!

Yeah, and he's pretty darn good at it! Quite a number of RS guys will soil their pants if they notice how many of those were killed with a Leupold.

 

[CJ_BG]

This was a fast kill. Do you consider this good bullet performance?View attachment 964770

Yeah I'd bet it was a fast kill, that's what my point was

If you're trying to kill animals quickly I'd say it was excellent terminal performance

 

[24valve]

Mule deer buck shot at 50-100 yards with a 300 WM/180gr TTSX multiple times (shoulder, neck, guts). Went 50 yards and bedded down. Was finished with a knife to the throat 30-40 minutes later. Caliber sized entrances and 3/4-1" diameter exits.



After the rodeo on the buck, a dead doe was found hidden completely by sagebrush from the shooter that was killed by a pass-through from the buck. A 2-3-entry wound in the shoulder and the bullet was found caught in the neck (under the skin before the photo was taken). The neck skin was cut and we found a fully expanded 30 cal 180 TTSX underneath (Game and Fish was contacted upon finding the doe and the situation was resolved with a game warden).

 

[JGRaider]

Yeah I'd bet it was a fast kill, that's what my point was

If you're trying to kill animals quickly I'd say it was excellent terminal performance

You can't possibly be serious.

 

[buffybr]

That’s some pretty serious flex.

Any idea how many were above a 6.5 Creedmoor? Any 223?

Thanks again

All were shot with cartridges above a 6.5 CM except the elk and velvet caribou that are above the bar, the 3 bighorns and Dall ram, the 2 whitetail bucks, the wolverine, and 4 of the pronghorn antelope. I shot all of these animals with my .257 Ackley. Over the years, I've also shot several antelope and a few deer with my .22-250, and a few deer with a .22 LR. I have two .223 rifles, but haven't hunted with either of them.

 

[buffybr]

The past 25 years this man has been trying to make sure every animal species knows he's their daddy!

Actually closer to 60 years. I shot my first deer while hunting with one of my college roommates in 1965 and my first elk the next year, and then I was hooked.

 

[buffybr]

Yeah, and he's pretty darn good at it! Quite a number of RS guys will soil their pants if they notice how many of those were killed with a Leupold.

Probably most of those animals were killed with rifles with Leupold scopes. My 5 main hunting rifles and a couple others all wear Leupolds. Until a couple of years ago, I had a Leupold M8 6x scope on my .257 Ackley that accounted for all of my mountain sheep, most deer and antelope, my mountain caribou, and my 2nd best 6x6 bull elk. I replaced the 6x with a Leupold 4.5-14x.

 

[omicron1792]

Probably most of those animals were killed with rifles with Leupold scopes. My 5 main hunting rifles and a couple others all wear Leupolds. Until a couple of years ago, I had a Leupold M8 6x scope on my .257 Ackley that accounted for all of my mountain sheep, most deer and antelope, my mountain caribou, and my 2nd best 6x6 bull elk. I replaced the 6x with a Leupold 4.5-14x.

Leupold not too popular around here. I have moved away from them myself

 

[CJ_BG]

You can't possibly be serious.

I'm 100% serious. If you're trying to kill things as fast as possible you want big holes. If you're trying to save meat then obviously you want something that doesn't make those giant holes.

I shoot enough animals in a year to give up a few lbs of meat and I want things dead as fast and humane as possible

This is what I want to see when I open an animal, if I put a shot forward into the meat I do so knowing I'm probably losing that quarter, but that animal isn't going anywhere. Can't say the same for ones I've shot with ttsx and accubonds.

Not pictured is a 10" tall 14" wide entrance hole from a 338 210 partition that caught ribs really good on a quartered away shot. That's still the record for biggest hole we've seen.

 

[SC HUNTER]

I'm 100% serious. If you're trying to kill things as fast as possible you want big holes. If you're trying to save meat then obviously you want something that doesn't make those giant holes.

I shoot enough animals in a year to give up a few lbs of meat and I want things dead as fast and humane as possible

This is what I want to see when I open an animal, if I put a shot forward into the meat I do so knowing I'm probably losing that quarter, but that animal isn't going anywhere. Can't say the same for ones I've shot with ttsx and accubonds.

Not pictured is a 10" tall 14" wide entrance hole from a 338 210 partition that caught ribs really good on a quartered away shot. That's still the record for biggest hole we've seen.

Maybe I missed it... What are you shooting those deer with??

 

[CJ_BG]

Maybe I missed it... What are you shooting those deer with??

Lots of different loads in those pictures and I usually try 1-3 different bullets a year. From those pictures we have

300 win mag 125gr NBT ~3550MV, buck with giant hole in the chest

7-08 120gr hammer hunter ~ 3080 MV, deer with guts spilling out the hole. This was the only performance we've had like that from hammers, wish they performed more like that all the time.

243 95gr berger classic hunter ~ 3060MV, deer with giant hole below the spine

270 110vmax ~ 3350 MV, hand through the hole and hole you can see the tire through

270 130 NBT ~ 3000 MV, deer with big hole right behind the shoulder. I couldn't find the picture of the entrance side yesterday but looked again and found it just now

We've killed deer or deer sized game with almost everything from 22 hornet - 338 RUM, we pretty much settled on 243 and 223 for a lot of our shooting. A few from our group shoot 270 or 7-08 because it's just what they already had but even they're thinking about 223s or 243s.

 

[Hondo64d]

Whitetail doe killed at 410 yards this AM with a 168gr TMK launched from my .308. Impact velocity was approximately 2135 fps. Doe ran about 45 yards with a silver dollar sized hole through her lungs.


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