on_one_wheel wrote:I'm my experience the projectile seems that its most "explosive" at close range, it's travelling at it's highest speed and hitting as hard as it possibly can for your given load.
I find within 50m using my 55g vmax .223 loads roos heads literally explode, beyond 100 the damage is noticeably reduced.
The only time I had issues with projectiles pencilling through was with heavy jacket 100g .243 pills. I stopped using those on roos after pencilling through a roos frontal lobe, the poor bugger stood there lobotomised staring into space until the next shot.
SCJ429 wrote:I am with Ziege, get a frangible bullet like a Sierra Blitz King, Hornady Vmax or Speer TNT. I use these bullets in a 204, 223 and 22/250. The main issue I face is that I have to head shoot everything or the damage they do with chest shots is so great that there is nothing worth picking up.
SCJ429 wrote:I am with Ziege, get a frangible bullet like a Sierra Blitz King, Hornady Vmax or Speer TNT. I use these bullets in a 204, 223 and 22/250. The main issue I face is that I have to head shoot everything or the damage they do with chest shots is so great that there is nothing worth picking up.
Skinna wrote:SCJ429 wrote:I am with Ziege, get a frangible bullet like a Sierra Blitz King, Hornady Vmax or Speer TNT. I use these bullets in a 204, 223 and 22/250. The main issue I face is that I have to head shoot everything or the damage they do with chest shots is so great that there is nothing worth picking up.
Im curious to know why youre picking them up...do you eat foxes...?
SCJ429 wrote:I am with Ziege, get a frangible bullet like a Sierra Blitz King, Hornady Vmax or Speer TNT. I use these bullets in a 204, 223 and 22/250. The main issue I face is that I have to head shoot everything or the damage they do with chest shots is so great that there is nothing worth picking up.
SCJ429 wrote:Skinna wrote:SCJ429 wrote:I am with Ziege, get a frangible bullet like a Sierra Blitz King, Hornady Vmax or Speer TNT. I use these bullets in a 204, 223 and 22/250. The main issue I face is that I have to head shoot everything or the damage they do with chest shots is so great that there is nothing worth picking up.
Im curious to know why youre picking them up...do you eat foxes...?
I skin the foxes I shoot, I would have thought a bloke with a handle of "Skinna" would have thought of that.
Skinna wrote:SCJ429 wrote:I am with Ziege, get a frangible bullet like a Sierra Blitz King, Hornady Vmax or Speer TNT. I use these bullets in a 204, 223 and 22/250. The main issue I face is that I have to head shoot everything or the damage they do with chest shots is so great that there is nothing worth picking up.
Im curious to know why youre picking them up...do you eat foxes...?
animalpest wrote:Had a wild dog that was shot from 60-70m away with .223 and 55gn Sierra bullet. The dog ran off. We found it the next day and it had ran 170m before piling up. It was a perfect heart shot, with a massive exit hole.
Sometimes even perfect bullet placement with good terminal performance of the bullet can lead you to think something was wrong when it hasn't.
Die Judicii wrote:animalpest wrote:Had a wild dog that was shot from 60-70m away with .223 and 55gn Sierra bullet. The dog ran off. We found it the next day and it had ran 170m before piling up. It was a perfect heart shot, with a massive exit hole.
Sometimes even perfect bullet placement with good terminal performance of the bullet can lead you to think something was wrong when it hasn't.
Tend to agree with what your sayin,,,, I had the same experience a week prior to this dog, with a large boar.
Same rifle/caliber,,,, big boar,,,,, heart shot, (single)
Said boar ran approx 85 meters in a horse shoe pattern,, stopped, jumped 4 times as if on a trampoline,, then fell over and never moved again.
animalpest wrote:Had a wild dog that was shot from 60-70m away with .223 and 55gn Sierra bullet. The dog ran off. We found it the next day and it had ran 170m before piling up. It was a perfect heart shot, with a massive exit hole.
Sometimes even perfect bullet placement with good terminal performance of the bullet can lead you to think something was wrong when it hasn't.