duckhunter175 Report post Posted November 1, 2019 KEEP THIS THREAD ALIVE- unlike the animals that these things hit!! This is my muzzleloader bullet from my CO elk this year--- Cow Elk, hit just behind the shoulder, heart/lungs then stopped after passing through off side, she went 15 yards and tipped. Started out as a 300gr Harvester Sabertooth @ 1850fps MV. 100 yard shot, recovered bullet weighed 191.9gr or 64% retention. Same bullet on a mule deer buck in the same 'pocket' was a pass through, he sprinted 20 and piled up... just far enough to scrub up his velvet 😢 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
duckhunter175 Report post Posted November 6, 2019 Here’s another!! Started off as a 200gr XTP from a 10mm... then met a great Texas whitetail on our low fence lease! 183.0gr weight retention, 27 yard shot, deer dropped in its tracks- 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ruppart Report post Posted January 2, 2020 Great thread; glad I found this! Here's another contribution (originally posted over on forum.nosler.com here). Cow elk, taken with my 7mm-08 pushing a 160gr AccuBond at 2725 fps out my Tikka T3x. I found a small group of cows at about sundown. One stepped out of some cedar trees in a clear grassy spot down hill of where I was at about 360 yards, quartering towards me. I took the shot, and she immediately tensed up & walked a very quick half-circle back behind a tree where I could only see her head. A few seconds later, she flopped over and didn't get back up...no more than 10 seconds after the shoot. Upon inspection/field dressing, I found the bullet (pictures below) had entered between two ribs about 4 inches behind her right shoulder blade and passed through her lungs, liver, and a little of her stomach before coming to rest against the offside hide. My rough measurement says it went through about 22" of elk. Vertically, the bullet hit a little high, in the top 1/3 of her lungs, 4-5" below the top of her ribs/spine. The recovered bullet (after cleaning) weighs 140 grains, yielding ~87% weight retention. My ballistic calculator puts the bullet going about 2250 fps, with 1800 foot-pounds of energy at impact. I had some reservations about using this heavy of a bullet in the 7mm-08, thinking it might not open up well at extended range/lower velocities. Looks like my worries were unfounded, at least for this particular AB. I couldn't ask for any more from the bullet given the conditions. Sorry I didn't have a picture of the elk before field dressing/packing it out. I didn't have my phone with me the night I got her, so the best I could include was the rifle and packed out meat/proof-of-gender. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesPursuit Report post Posted March 11, 2021 This 143gr ELDX was recovered from a lion sleeping on its side this last year at 400 yards. It was found just barely piercing the hide but not passing through the opposite shoulder. Entry- Retention- 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5guyshunting Report post Posted March 22, 2021 Killed a bowling ball. 7mm mag 168 gr berger vld. Weight retention was 165.8 gr. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lucafu1 Report post Posted March 23, 2021 Follow up to my post a while back. I finally weighed them. 225gr TSX and TTSX .338 Win Mag 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PowellSixO Report post Posted March 23, 2021 7 saum 175 eldx @ 2915 fps 809 yards Bullet went through two ribs, both lungs, and was hanging out the off side by a piece of skin. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ctafoya Report post Posted June 4, 2021 This is all that's left of a Berger 30 cal 168VLD. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
