Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 10:06 AM
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I used to shoot 180 grain Remington Core-Lokt for bear and 150 grain for deer. I didn’t always have time to re-zero my rifle between seasons, ours here in PA are back to back. So eventually I settled on 165 grain Remington for both. I shoot the old style, standard Core-Lokt and have been for the last 40 years or so. I’ve recovered several bullets over the years and have found that the mushroom perfectly and lose very little weight in their travel through a deer body. I only ever recovered one bullet. All the rest passed through, even the one that broke both front legs (shoulders) on one deer. The one bullet I did recover was also, as yours, a perfect mushroom. Keith,I think you should try a lighter bullet.I consider the 180 gr to be better suited for elk.A friend had this problem and I suggested trying 150's.He likes them a lot better.It sounds like 165's are good a swell,but no experience here.
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 10:27 AM
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Your point of aim must be a problem. CoreLokt bullets are great for deer. You do not need a 180-grain bullet. I also prefer a high shoulder placement. It takes out the aorta, spine, both lungs, and the very back of both shoulders.
I have taken over 200 deer in NC. I am 73 now. I can no longer drag a deer so I need immediate kills.
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 11:05 AM
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If a deer is facing you, head up, a bullet into the CENTER of the throat will hill the spine and drop it right there. Even a 22 rimfire, 40-50 yards will drop it right there with that shot. CENTER of the throat. No missing, right in the CENTER.
My grandad told me that on a cold day you want to squeeze the trigger as soon as you see the steam from the deer's breath. They will just drop if shot on the exhale. I don't know how true that is but I know that sometimes shot in the heart they just collapse and sometimes they jump straight up then run with their head down and collapse. If your on one ridge and the deer on the other shooting across canyon, a good heart shot that deer my go uphill a step or two then will stumble down hill and collapse. Mule deer like to run uphill. You will be eating backstrap if it goes down hill with its head hanging down.
Shot a whitetail a few years ago with a 50 caliber round ball and 85 grains of goex blackpowder. That deer looked to be unhit when it ran. Only went about 30 yards but thick brush. I couldn't see it after it jumped straight forward. Got to where it was standing and could see foamy lung stuff on the ground. I knew it was dead and close but I thought I had missed till I walked over there.
Anytime you shoot have a good look. Not just for blood either. I think its all to common for somebody to kill a deer and never go get it because they thought they missed.
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 11:32 AM
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I shoot 130 grain out of a .270 and usually they run a short distance, maybe fifty yards. That’s fine by me, but where I hunt is wide open, probably still see it go down if it ran a half mile first. I might feel different if I was hunting in thick woods
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 12:37 PM
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head or spine and they pile up. I have a tendency to shoot high so I make a lot of spine shots. Probably 50% of the time they are not dead when I walk up but they usually don't move. Once in a while you get one that can still use its front legs and they may drag themselves a ways. If I have a good rest and a calm deer I will head shoot,killed a doe this morning, no loss of meat and they don't move. IMO any other shot the animal can run a ways.
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Re: One Shot
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10/27/19 01:44 PM
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head or spine and they pile up. I have a tendency to shoot high so I make a lot of spine shots. Probably 50% of the time they are not dead when I walk up but they usually don't move. Once in a while you get one that can still use its front legs and they may drag themselves a ways. If I have a good rest and a calm deer I will head shoot,killed a doe this morning, no loss of meat and they don't move. IMO any other shot the animal can run a ways. Might bit scary lol. I've had a few give me the shot that Sako said above and they dropped immediately. So I'm going on record saying I have shot more than three deer.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 01:44 PM
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Have always taken a heart shot. They have never gone more than 30 feet if they did not fall over where they stood.
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Re: One Shot
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10/27/19 03:17 PM
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Have always taken a heart shot. They have never gone more than 30 feet if they did not fall over where they stood See, this is what I don't understand. I don't know how many but a lot of the deer I have shot have been hit in the heart. Never have I had one run only 30 feet. They run more like 40-50 yards, sometimes even more than that. I have NEVER had a heart shot deer drop in its tracks.
My name ain't Keith
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 03:27 PM
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if you desire the DRT (dead right there) results you hit them with a high velocity, quick expanding, cup/core bullet, reports are the 25/06 and the 6mm's account for a large percentage of those DRT hits, and you hit them at the point of most resistance (the scapula) if the bullet expends all its energy on/inside the deer and doesn't exit, the hydraulic shock of the blood going backwards through the major blood vessels hits the brain stem causing the brain to send out an all systems stop message, however you will lose much more meat than the traditional double lung/heart shot which is fatal 100% of the time. RR
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Re: One Shot
[Re: 330-Trapper]
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10/27/19 03:29 PM
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Follow the front leg up, at the top of the Scapula. Very Top. They Drop. Yes . We call that the "OFF" button around here. But if Its thick and the shot is fairly close the neck shot is better (in my opinion) We call it the NTR shot. (NO TRACKING REQUIRED) ! Ok bucks and bears tell me and everyone else why I'm wrong.
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 03:39 PM
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I never considered myself a good shot, so I always aim for the biggest kill area, which is the heart lungs. I neck shot a deer once because that was the only shot I had.
My name ain't Keith
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Re: One Shot
[Re: Sullivan K]
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10/27/19 03:53 PM
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I never considered myself a good shot, so I always aim for the biggest kill area, which is the heart lungs. I neck shot a deer once because that was the only shot I had. That is the best and most common shot. But I have seen guys wait for a deer to turn before shooting. The kill zone on a deer is about the size of a basket ball. That zone is still present in that deer regardless of how he is turned. To me the only no shot is straight away. Looking right at me ? If he is under 150 yards I'm grinning because if I hit him he don't move. Except straight down . LOL If he runs off 99.9 % chance he was missed. That white throat patch makes a great target by the way !!!!
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Re: One Shot
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10/27/19 03:58 PM
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That white throat patch makes a great target by the way !!!! I did that once and it made such a mess of the guts I decided not to do that anymore
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