Friend Big Sky,
Great minds think in the same gutter. I'm contemplating a light, say 8 to 8�-pound field ready, .257 Weatherby. Of course, built for the 100-grain Ballistic.
I hear you about the entertainment value. My horned doe was larger than either of our bucks. Huge. Anyway, I shot her through both lungs at 359 yards and she started running in a very tight circle. Her buddy, another large doe, was running right along-side. They looked like two race horses, each trying to get ahead of the other. My holed doe was spurting blood out both sides like a fire-hose and blowing blood all over her buddy.
Finally the doe died, after running two or three circuits of the 30 yard circle and collapsed in a cloud of dust....all four feet in the air. The other doe stopped and looked at her, wondering why the fun race was over.
I looked at the remaining doe through the scope and she must have had two gallons of blood splashed on her side and back. It was then that I commenced laughing.
I'm sorry, Big Sky, I totally lost it. I was laughing so damned hard that my belly hurt and I was in severe danger of pissing myself. All the time, my bride of forty years is yelling, "Kill the other one, kill the other one, it's standing right there."
Heck, I couldn't have whacked the remaining doe if my life depended on it. My bride, of course, thought I was an idiot, but soon she was out of control, as well.
After a couple of minutes, the other doe wandered off. Surprisingly, she was the doe that we shot a couple of hours later, as we were slipping and sliding out in the rain and inch-deep gumbo. That was the diaphram-to-ear shot that I described earlier. She still had blood on her side and it was the opposite side from the one where I planted the bullet.
Gad, how would I ever write about this in one of the gun funnybooks? No editor would publish it and the majority of Blue State readers would think I am a whacko. You, being a correct-thinking Montana fella, can totally understand and laugh right along with me. Gad, it is too precious not to share. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Yeah, the 100 Ballistic is definitely worth the entertainment value. Heck of a great bullet and an absolute stone killer.
Steve
