Originally Posted by mudhen
I get tired of posting this, but my daughters and their kids have taken several pickup loads of game consisting of Coues whitetails, desert mule deer and pronghorns with 7mm-08s and 120-grain BTs. If you throw in the dozen or so guest hunters that used one of my 7mm-08 loaners, that would probably account for another couple of pickup loads.

Many of the latter group were youths and/or first-time hunters who had never shot an animal with a center-fire rifle. I cannot remember any animals that were not recovered, nor can I remember any that required a second shot. My younger daughter still uses them in her 7mm-08 and one of my grandsons uses them exclusively in his .280 for Texas whitetails. YMMV.


Do you remember the load?

Thanks

RM

"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown