Whats your best deer bullet?

[fredo]

What's the problem with a deer running 75yds after a lethal hit?

The deer didn't "not bleed", it just didn't bleed out of the holes the bullet made...

 

[fredo]

If u shot a bullet thru the top 1/2 portion of a half full 2L soda bottle, would you be surprised when the liquid in the lower half of the bottle didn't defy gravity and shoot out of the holes???

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Shot thru at the back edge of one shoulder, shattered a rib, heart and one lung was gelatin, came out the front edge of the opposite shoulder shattering another rib and shoulder blade. Not one drop of blood. The coke bottle analogy dont work here. Ive been doing this way too long to drag deer from a thicket on my hands and knees- i know when a bullet does its job. I even spent one semester culling deer in college shooting truckloads every nite. This lot of bullets suck and me and 3 others are feeling the wrath until i can get a replacement. I never had problems with trophy bonded bullets or partitions killin stuff. Why does federal or speer not sell the trophy bonded component bullets anymore?

 

[bigngreen]

Probably the largest blood trails I get are from a 215 Berger out of my 308, if I put them behind the shoulder there is usually large chunks of lung or heart then a trail that looks like you poked holes in the bottom of a bucket of blood for the distance they did the Berger wobble, as we call it.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I guess these bullets just dont have the anchoring ability im used to. No knockdown. The deer are dead they just dont know it til they fall over in a bad thicket

 

[CaptainMal]

Often use Hornady SST's. Always have a pass-through with great expansion.

This year used a 257 Roberts and 115 Nosler Ballistic Tips. Shot a big buck at 250 yards. No clue it was hit while it ran out of sight. No blood but found the deer. Big bleeding exit hole but my take is it covered over with hide until it fell. Jelly for a heart but it did like most heart-shot deer. They run about as far as they can hold their breath.

You cannot predict when they will run "dead on their feet".

 

[Cold Bore]

[quote author=Dusty Stevens]...found the deer 50-100yds away... Entry and exit good and insides pulverized.[/quote]

[quote author=Dusty Stevens]It happened again today. Entry and exit wound. Exit would of about 2". [/quote]

[quote author=Dusty Stevens]This lot of bullets suck...[/quote]

Yep, they suck alright...... :

 

[AckleymanII]

You can predict when they are running dead on their feet, that is when they are shot through the lungs.

BREAK THEM DOWN!!!

 

[K22]

Nosler Ballistic Tips is what has worked the best for me on deer. Amazing how much damage these bullets can do inside a deer...like their lungs have been run through a blender.

Have always had great results with cheap Remington Core Lokt bullets too before I started reloading again. Several family members have killed more deer than anyone I know with those rounds.

I would venture to say that the Rem Core Lokt Bullets have taken more white tail deer than any other bullet. They are excellent bullets. My father and uncles used them for 40+ years - they didn't reload - just used Rem Factory ammo. They took a ton of deer over those years with a 30-06 and 30-30.

 

[people]

Not really what you are looking for but 7n6 puts then down hard. It works so well I can see why they are called the poison bullet.

 

[Cold Bore]

You can predict when they are running dead on their feet, that is when they are shot through the lungs.

BREAK THEM DOWN!!!

I don't have a problem with tracking a deer 50-100 yards, so I shoot for heart/lungs, wasting no meat as the bullet goes through the ribcage. There is lots of good meat in the shoulders, so I like to save them and not intentionally ruin all of that by shooting into them.

 

[AckleymanII]

Where we hunt, if they run 100 yards, it may be like trying to find them in the amazon jungle!!! If they don't bleed, you just loose them!!!

 

[Changeling]

Where we hunt, if they run 100 yards, it may be like trying to find them in the amazon jungle!!! If they don't bleed, you just loose them!!!

I hear what you're saying man! Some of the places I hunted are full of 1st and second growth hard woods/brush and Multiflorial briar patches. If you fail to drop them quick, you might wish you were in the Amazon jungle, LOL.

Example: I once shot a buck through both lungs that ran about 50 feet and jumped into the middle of one of those briar patches. It took me at least an hour to cut my way into him with my hunting knife, NOT 8), but funny to me (after several years) LOL.

Whoops! Forgot to say, bullet was 6mm 100 gr partition.

 

[Cold Bore]

Where we hunt, if they run 100 yards, it may be like trying to find them in the amazon jungle!!! If they don't bleed, you just loose them!!!

If it's that thick, it can actually help in tracking, as there are only so many ways to get through it, and you can usually find enough sign, even without blood, to decipher the trail.

Regardless, 100 yards, even without blood, really isn't all that tough of a recovery job.

 

[mytwo60]

I guess these bullets just dont have the anchoring ability im used to. No knockdown. The deer are dead they just dont know it til they fall over in a bad thicket

Go lighter in weight. Try 100grns. I shoot a 300WM with 130grn TTSX. They don't leave a blood trail either because they drop dead right there. I want to try 110grn ttsx in 300WM. Just think about a bullet going 3600-3800fps zipping thru a deer. Aint no running off...

 

[dkhunt14]

I used a 243 and a 6mm for years. It was my doe hunting gun. I always lung shot them and most never moved. The 85 grain Sierra HPBT is a killing bullet. Most never move and if they do it isn't far. Matt

 

[stosh]

Great performane with Nosler 140gr BT in my 7mm Rem Mag. Will drop in tracks usually or at worst go 30yds. Killed many white tails ,mule deer and antelope with it!


Just finished deer season here in Missouri, for me anyway. Killed 2 does one at 250yds and one at 300yds. This bullet performed perfectly once again and did I mention they shoot into .2" at 100yds!

 

[FeMan]

I have killed at lest 100 big game animals with Barnes TSX and TTSX bullets (lots of hogs and many deer, elk and a few bears). They almost always exit and rarely leave much of a blood trail, but I don't mind that for two reasons. One is that I never have to look far. Second is that bullets that leave a blood trail also leave a lot of blood-shot meat. The fact that the Barnes doesn't throw little bullet fragments through the tissue and cause hemorrhaging throughout the tissue is as much a plus as a minus. Blood trail or not, I think the TTSX is as good as it gets.

 

[Changeling]

Hi FeMan. If you stick a 6mm 85/95/100 gr Partition behind the leg (Deer) for a lung shot you won't loose or blood shoot any meat hardly at all, bullet go's in, opens up BIG TIME in chest cavity, sheds the front and plows on through usually leaving a great blood trail

If you stick it in the shoulder or other bone/muscle area it will do some meat damage, that's just common sense for a projectile of this design (Partition). I've used many different kinds of bullets but NEVER have I found one as reliable as a Nosler Partition 8)!

 

[Firefighter]

I too used the 85grn. Sierra HPBT,, in the .243, on 2 deer this weekend here in WI,,Both broadside, 75 & 100 yd shots,, both traveled less than 20 yds, both double lung, pencil hole on entry, 1" exit hole. Speed kills.