I was out the other day Chucking with my Son and I spotted one that would have been extremely tough to explain where it was so I went ahead and took the shot. I had my 788 chambered in 6X47 Lapua loaded with the Berger 88 gr. High BC Flat Base at a chrono'ed 3350 fps. The Chuck was a laser-ed 154 yards and was a cake walk through the 36X Leupold. This load was sub 1/2 MOA at 200 yards with many 1/3 MOA 5 shots group at that range. The 1 lb. Timney trigger broke beautiful and I saw it flatten out and lay still for bit then roll over off it's stump perch. I claimed a kill and was flabbergasted when we walked down as we were leaving and there was no Chuck, blood or hair! It's burrow was right were it rolled off and nothing there either. I sucked it up and took the miss. :-[ Today I took it back out and flatten one at 174 yards freestanding off the tripod. Made me feel pretty good but when I tried to find it in the scope after reloading and scanning for more I couldn't find it! Another appeared a while later at 184 and again it was flattened from the sitting position off the tripod. This one stayed put and when packing it up for the day the first was MIA. When I reached the second there it lay but no blood, no fur blown out, nothing! I couldn't even find the entrance or exit hole!
It was quartering towards me and it felt like it's shoulder was busted but I didn't perform an Autopsy so I wouldn't swear to it. A typical case of penciling. Berger lists this as a Varmint bullet and I should have had plenty of velocity but it isn't working for me! They sure are accurate but I think I will switch to the A-Max until I can find some 87 grain V-Max. Sure does explain the one the other day!
