dirty meat and shot placement

@T @treeman 2 years ago

I am tired of dirty meat, cutting away blood meat, then washing and more cutting to get the half digested grass out of wherever it's been blown into.
Cody and I are meat hunters, so full on shoulder shots are really not an option. We have tried double lung shots, through one shoulder in and out behind far side shoulder, behind one in and out on far side in shoulder. We have tried full frontal and we tried in behind last rib and out on far side shoulder, shot placement we have tried in excess - much.
Everytime its either blood meat or gut content in the wound channel or surrounds, and it sucks to work such an carcass. The clients are now told "in on the shoulder bone and out on or behind other side shoulder" - sorry about the meat loss.
I do a lot of headshots, but they are almost entirely on those get lucky at 80 m here pops a head out looking other direction cases - freehand shooting. Lovely clean carcass and no meat damage.

I have been talking to Cody about taking lower neck shots, in front of the shoulder from the side and above the line of the spine if from front or back. The frontal or facing away shots are pretty safe, if you hit the neck its dead, the side on shots I am still pondering.
Tonight we again looked at a carcass we were working and discussed the matter in detail, what shots to take and where to put the bullet.

Who here shoots neck shots ? Tell me about neck shots.

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@N @newton

Treeman is going to have to do a bit of saving up - although I question the weight of 120gr

7mm 120Gr Barnes TTSX BT (50)

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@T @tripodmvr

Koos Barnard het die onderstaande op Jaracal forum rapporteer.

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Soms leer 'n mens dat koeëls glad nie binne-in 'n bok reageer soos jy verwag hulle moet doen nie. Ek help jagters uitneem op die Karooplaas waartoe ek toegang het en het onlangs 'n interessante ding beleef. 'n Jagter het 'n koedoebul op 265m geskiet met sy .308, gelaai met 150gr Siera Prohunter-koeëls. Sy lading is 43gr S335 maar hy besit nie 'n chronograaf nie en weet nie wat die koeëlspoed is nie. Die bok het baie skuins (amper reguit) na hom toe gestaan en hy het gemik om te tref waar die nek en bors bymekaar aansluit (op die regterkant van die bul). Toe die skoot klap, het die koedoe 'n ent gehardloop en neergeslaan op sy regtersy. By die dier aangekom, moes ons hom regdraai vir foto's en dis toe dat ek die bultjie onder die vel hoog op sy linkerboud sien. Ek het daaraan gevoel, besef dit kan dalk die koeël wees en dit dadelik uitgesny. Tot my verbasing haal ek toe die Prohunter uit net om te vind dit het glad nie omgeklink nie.

Toe ons die koedoe omrol, sien ons dat die koeël sowat twee handbreedtes verder agtertoe (en effens hoog) op die blad getref het as waar die jagter gemik het. Met die pens se uithaal het ons gesien dat die koeël tussen twee ribbes in is, 'n gat deur die regterlong gemaak het, deur die grootmaag is en toe verder agtertoe tot in die boud. Ongelukkig kon ons nie sien of daar enige vleisskade was nie want die man het die koedoe met vel aan saamgeneem huis toe dieselfde aand. Soos julle op die foto kan sien, is die koeël byna ongeskonde behalwe vir die groefmerke op die skag.

@T @treeman OP

That bullet was then traveling at about 2000 fps at 260 m, I get about 2600 fps with 43 gr S335 at muzzle. Is a Sierra PH bullet expected to deform at that velocity, 2000 fps ?

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That bullet was then traveling at about 2000 fps at 260 m, I get about 2600 fps with 43 gr S335 at muzzle. Is a Sierra PH bullet expected to deform at that velocity, 2000 fps ?

Yes, they usually deform well at lower velocities. I shoot them from my 308, and they do well.

@A @againstthegrains

That is so weird. Normally cup and cores make an ugly mess.

@T @treeman OP

Treeman is going to have to do a bit of saving up - although I question the weight of 120gr
7mm 120Gr Barnes TTSX BT (50)[/url[url="https://gunshopdelmas.co.za/shop/bullets/111-barnes-7mm-120gr-ttsx-bt50.html"]BARNES 7MM 120GR TTSX BT(50)

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Problem with these gold plated bullets is that they kill so slowly on smaller game.