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While most hunters on the Campfire don't recover many TSX's, we've recovered a fair collection over the years--including the last two Eileen fired into big game with her NULA .257 Roberts. The first was the cow elk she got in early September, which was quartering away at 123 yards. The bullet hit the middle of the ribs on the right side, and since the elk was slanting slightly uphill as well, it hit the very bottom of the spinal column before ending up under the hide just in front of the left shoulder. Retained weight was 78.6 grains, with three of the four petals missing. The elk dropped right there, no doubt due to the "tap" of the spine, but the bullet going through both lungs was the fatal wound.

This afternoon we butchered the doe pronghorn taken by Eileen last week. It stood almost directly facing her at 163 yards, and the bullet landed just inside the left shoulder. We found it today just inside the meat of the front side of the right ham. This one had all its petals and weighed 99.4 grains. No doubt the "missing" .6 grain was the plastic tip.