Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2011 12:36:17 GMT -5
I absolutely love these bullets, even though they aren't supposed to work in the velocities I'm using them at. Yesterday, I killed another huge body buck with the 195 gr. .357/50 cal. from my T/C with the smokeless SMI barrel. But this time, had an exact oppisite effect. Normally, these things impact and the deer drops, but not this time.
Ended up shooting the deer at about 75 yards or so. The buck reacted as if nothing had happened. Never ran, nothing. Jumped a short tight fence, hit a scrape on the other side three of four times and casually WALKED across a cow pasture. I'm thinking I missed him somehow, and was trying to rapid reload without taking my eyes offf the buck. About the time I had it ready to fire, I decided to range it and looked through the range finding binos and I saw him kinda trip up a bit in the front. Then he sort of feel forward and went out of sight. I'm thinking maybe I hit and he just died? Still not sure. So I get down, walk over to the scrape that he hit looking for blood, saw none. Walked across the cow pasture looking for blood, saw none. Got to the creat of the pasture and looked in the woods for a deer, dead or alive and saw nothing. So I walked in the direction of the last sighting and looked again, this time saw a small patch of something white. got closer and there he was. Lots of blood in that area and a little on the back trail.
The autopsy showed that the bullet entered behind the last rib on the left side and quartered into the far shoulder as I inteneded. It did not exit on the right side. When I skinned him out, the bullet had nearly completely fragmented into very small pieces but had nearly excited on the right with a lot of tissue damage on the right shoulder and lots of internal blood.
Anyway, he died, and wasn't hard to find and it was a large deer, so I guess the bullet proformed as well as can be expected.
The cape on this deer measured 29" 3" back from the ears, which is about as big as they get.
Ended up shooting the deer at about 75 yards or so. The buck reacted as if nothing had happened. Never ran, nothing. Jumped a short tight fence, hit a scrape on the other side three of four times and casually WALKED across a cow pasture. I'm thinking I missed him somehow, and was trying to rapid reload without taking my eyes offf the buck. About the time I had it ready to fire, I decided to range it and looked through the range finding binos and I saw him kinda trip up a bit in the front. Then he sort of feel forward and went out of sight. I'm thinking maybe I hit and he just died? Still not sure. So I get down, walk over to the scrape that he hit looking for blood, saw none. Walked across the cow pasture looking for blood, saw none. Got to the creat of the pasture and looked in the woods for a deer, dead or alive and saw nothing. So I walked in the direction of the last sighting and looked again, this time saw a small patch of something white. got closer and there he was. Lots of blood in that area and a little on the back trail.
The autopsy showed that the bullet entered behind the last rib on the left side and quartered into the far shoulder as I inteneded. It did not exit on the right side. When I skinned him out, the bullet had nearly completely fragmented into very small pieces but had nearly excited on the right with a lot of tissue damage on the right shoulder and lots of internal blood.
Anyway, he died, and wasn't hard to find and it was a large deer, so I guess the bullet proformed as well as can be expected.
The cape on this deer measured 29" 3" back from the ears, which is about as big as they get.
, I would buy a cva I guess...If I needed another stake for my tomato plants. 
TC is the only way to go.