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[Hedgelj]

Wow what a story! Why no blood in your best guess? Sounds like there should have been blood everywhere with a hit like that. What gun and bullet weight?

350 legend
160 gr Winchester power max bonded
CVA cascade with the shorter barrel and suppressed

Bullet took out ribs and the left shoulder was a mess and almost fell off on its own when I skinned and quartered it. Almost all the bloody tissue was in the "armpit". The entire chest was a big clot/liquid blood and when i punctured the diaphragm during the field dressing i got flooded with a gush of blood/clots that was almost as big as the gut pile. On the far side i had more ribs broken and the bonded part of the bullet was through the scapula and just under the skin on the far side.

So honestly here are my thoughts (feel free to chip in)
Small entry hole fairly high in the chest
No exit hole
Heart and lungs were gone but nowhere for the blood to exit until he fell within 30 yards


I would have expected better from a bonded bullet and actually saw better performance last year at 50 yards when she got a pass through behind the shoulder withthe same bullet, and I've had a pass through at 170 yards witha different bullet. So the jury is mixed but i want more real life experience first.

 

[Hedgelj]

This further feeds into my theory that the 350 legend requires good bullet placement or you may be disappointed. It doesn't have the size hole of a slug or 45 cal bullet/sabot to create a huge wound channel. I would NOT carry this cartridge if I was doing a old school drive with runningshots as the norm rather than the exception.

 

[triple_duece]

Great deer and hunt. Congrats to both of you.

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

Holy cow, congrats !

 

[brock ratcliff]

Congratulations to both! Dandy deer and I’m certain she will remember this hunt for her days. You will too. Special

 

[Dannmann801]

Just catching up on this thread for the first time since Nov 6...what a time you've had! Congratulations twice, Holy crap! Great job man!

 

[giles]

Love it!

 

[Hedgelj]

It was a cold day, thank you buddy heater. We saw Squirrels, a woodpecker, and a few cows.

It was a good day though, backpacking meals for breakfast and lunch and plenty of hot chocolate.

 

[Isaacorps]

Just now getting caught up here, congrats on all the success! Thanks for bringing us along

 

[Hedgelj]

Went out last evening. There was already a doe in the one field so I had to take a more interesting route to the blind. She stayed just out of range and nothing else I saw presented a shot until last light, and they were not good shots so I passed oneverything. A good night while meat hunting.