Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 6.5 Creedmoor for Elk & Moose under 300yd - what bullet

Funny you mention it SLM.....I made the same connection based on common idiocy between them....BSA/ElkSlayer/Bob Brown/Old Toot/LlamaBob

I am now retired, but I used to work around democrats and would not want to embarrass my family. I told them I was a piano player in a house of ill repute.

Llama Bob,

I just posted up 10 years and 10 dead elk, plus a bonus 11th elk of the kids.

Not one was shot with a premium bullet. All were shot with the exact bullets that you say fail. Lapua Scenars, Sierras, etc.

This is called "Backing what you say" aka credibility.

Speaking of credibility..

Where are the pics of all these dead elk laying all over the ground for as you say decades? In the age of cell phones, surely you, someone in your family, your neighbor would have taken pics.

A camera shy bunch.

There’s a few here that claim to be tripping over lost/dead elk every year around here.

Dam sure couldn’t tell much on the few I’ve found through the years.

Based on my findings, this was a target bullet that blew up on a rib.😆

I’d have to agree with SLM on this one...It’s a clear case of a Berger rib grenade.

Hold into the partitions

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Looks like a pencil-through to me.....I'd say a .270 Ruger M77 with Hornady Interlock. 3 x 9 Leupold which could have caused the problem.

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It may be rare but it happens. If I can get my image that's currently being held hostage by photobucket, I'll post another of a 120 grain TTSX in 7mm that penetrated the entire length of a large hog and very nearly exited. Impact speed, if memory serves, would have been just shy of 2300 fps. The bullet almost looks pristine enough to reuse LOL. A few others have behaved similarly in media, but then again, I was starting them in the 2650 fps range. And for the record,in my usage,the TSX 7mm 120 always opened wider than the 120 grain TTSX.

Then there's another from a different hog that expanded but most minimally. I tried hard to like that 7mm 120 grain TTSX as it was incredibly accurate in a 7mm Bullberry rifle, but too many times terminal performance -- at the modest speeds I was using them at -- fell short or what I require of hunting bullets. (And yes, I examine every single wound channel.;) Now for my applications, the 110 and 120 grain TAC-TX Blackout bullets are another story altogether and -- launched from a 24" 30-30 at 2859 and 2603 fps, respectively -- have served me well and impressed the heck out of me with massive wound channels and excellent penetration. They open wide and quickly, and most of the specimens recovered from game are expanded to 0.6" or more. After around three dozen kills, I prefer them over c&c bullets for this specific usage and velocity range.




Taken from the hog below, this one expanded to over .68" and very nearly exited this massive boar.





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SKANE for the win. That was pretty funny 😁

That's some funny stuff right there SLM!

PS, enjoyed your photos. Good stuff.

Leave the forensics to those of us in the know.

The clinched jaw is a dead give away it was a target bullet that blew up on a rib and sent small shrapnel high in one lung.

MS, they must not allow photos at the meat processing plant...

Must of been eating pine cones and the gut-shot blew them all over the place.

No way, look at the exit hole!!!

I suppose you are right, I've only killed 17 Bulls with bows and rifles, so a small sample compared to most here on the Campfire. I've yet to have a bull hit behind the shoulder travel more than 100 yards and most drop within half of that.

You'll have better luck pole vaulting 19' in the next Summer Olympics that that loser posting up a photo, just sayin'.

That's freaking funny right there! Pretty sure you nailed the forensics SLM. Nice work.

Credibility??

What dat is....??

Keyboard Ninjas just keyboard....

Gotta consider the source...

DF

He hasn’t awoken from sleeping off his drunken stupor yet. He’ll be around shortly I’m sure. 🤣