Bullet Selection

[OhHeyThereBen]

I shot an antelope buck and an elk doe with TTSX bullets (100 grain and 130 grain respectively) this season. One from 284y and the other about 150y. Each dropped in their tracks with one double lung shot, no meat damage. YMMV.

Well now I have no excuse!

 

[N2TRKYS]

I got to try out my first 120 grain NBT out of my 7-08 yesterday morning. Only an example of one and a walking broadside shot, but really liked what I saw. I'll keep using them until they turn on me.

 

[sbhooper]

How is it that meat damage is always a consideration, when most like to shoot through the lungs? I will take a drt deer anytime, over worrying about losing a couple pound of shoulder meat. Don't shoot them through the hind quarters, or back straps and don't worry about losing some of the rest.

 

[OhHeyThereBen]

I think the consideration usually goes one right next to another. I know that my two animals shot with my '06 through the shoulder with a ELD-X dropped in their tracks. However, one of them was a quartering away shot and blasted the heck out of the off side shoulder. Trimming around the exit wound is sad to me, but I did put a perfect shot on the animal for an ethical kill. There are normally tradeoffs with this sort of thing.