Originally Posted by salmonhead
..... The most impressive kill was my 338 on a raghorn 5pt at 315 yards. Quartering to me, impact on the point of the near shoulder, smashing it, passing through vitals and coming to rest in the paunch behind the diaphram after bruising the hide, but not exiting the gut. That bull crashed on it's face and thrashed around for about 10 seconds before expiring, but never getting to its feet.......



Exactly......note bullet placement. I have had the same things happen with 7 mag,300 mags,etc. Shots angled to bones and through vitals (coming/going, ie slightly quartering on or away)generally give these results IME.




The 280 Remington is overbore.

The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.