Recovered Bullets 2021!

[Prerylyon]

Let's see em!

This past season was the 1st time I recovered a round from an animal.

It was a doe antelope @ 270 yards, Speer 145 gr 7mm BTSP out a Winchester .280 Rem Featherweight. DRT. Found in the right shoulder after coming in the left side boiler room. It's cool seeing the rifling in the copper casing.



This next pic shows a fresh bullet alongside the one I pulled from the speedgoat:

 

[dirtclod Az.]

.308 , cow elk 6x lol! no pics.

 

[kidoggy]

sure broke up but seeins you recovered it , I reckon it did it's job.

I have recovered quite a few over the years but it never even occurred to me to take a picture.

 

[Prerylyon]

One of these evenings, I'll get around to weighing how many grains all that shrapnel amounted to.

I would not use those on stouter critters, like elk, but for most deer and antelope, they're probably fine? I have shot several with that bullet and they all were all quick kills. I guess I liked the math of those bullets on paper as I was deciding what I wanted to use in my .280 for deer, and ended liking the results at the range even more, once I loaded some cartridges with it.

If and when I go elk hunting someday, I'll probably use something else. The only other bullet I have as much experience with is the Sierra Gameking hollow point boat tail. That one worked well on a muley buck for me, but I've had a hard time finding them for sale anywhere.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

We like to use a 165 grain boatail for deer, elk and antelope.

 

[kidoggy]

my .270 likes the 140gr boattails for accuracy . when I bump up to 150gr I can't group as well.

my thoughts are the bullet type doesn't really matter so long as you can put it where it needs to go. once it's there ,I figure the more it breaks up the more damage it's doing.

 

[memtb]

I’d love to share a photo, however, our hunting season ......wasn’t!

Though the last bullet that I recovered was in 1993 (I think) from a small bull elk that I made a “Texas Heart Shot” on! Bullet entered left ham just left of the “bullseye” (running elk), shattered the pelvis, went completely through the elk exiting in the left foreleg pit, re-entered the upper leg, missing the leg bone and found beneath the hide on the offside. That totals 3 hide penetrations, one major bone shattered (pelvis/hip), 2 dense muscle penetrations (ham, upper foreleg), completely through the elk (lots of internals).

This was my first kill with the then, fairly new Barnes X Bullet! The recovered bullet only lost one petal! This is when I determined that I had found my new, go-to hunting bullet! I’ve never been let down.....yet! memtb

 

[Bonecollector]

Barnes LRX Fan here

 

[Prerylyon]

For better or worse, I only really got started big game hunting as a middle aged adult. Almost a decade into this journey, I still am learning. It takes a while to make mistakes, try this, try that and begin to figure some of this stuff out; especially so with limited time and money, but I'm enjoying every bit of it. Seeing how these different bullets work at the range has been fun. Then, getting the chance to use what you loaded up on game is all the more gratifying.

 

[mallardsx2]

300 Grain Hornady SST Sabot. Never did weigh the thing. I guess I didn't really care what it retained. It went through 4 feet of buck. lol

 

[tim]

I wish i knew how to pull up old pictures i have posted. A while back, a similar thread appeared and i posted a picture of about a dozen accubonds i have recovered.

 

[Prerylyon]

I wish i knew how to pull up old pictures i have posted. A while back, a similar thread appeared and i posted a picture of about a dozen accubonds i have recovered.

Did they all perform about the same? I guess too it would depend on the shot presentation and all that. I find that sort of info both interesting and useful. Not knocking the wet phone books, water jugs or ballistics gel, but seeing how a bullet performed in a hunting situation is pretty cool.

 

[tim]

all the accubonds i have recovered where basically the same, except the mushroom size was dependent on distance shot. The one i recoverd from my elk this year was a smaller mushroom than the year befores bull. Both 6 points, but one was shot at 530 yards, the other 300 yards.