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Jerry, at least it made it through the deer before it stopped at a tree. Back on page one I mentioned stopping a 160 grain Nosler Partition in a buck from my 7mm RM which was a surprise given an earlier experience with a NP from a .300 WM. Granted it was lengthwise on a good size buck and close, but it stopped. Contrast that to a borrowed .300 WM with a 180 grain Nosler Partition. Running shot that caught the buck in the left ham with an exit out the right front chest no surprise until I looked around and saw a bunch of tooth pick size splinters blown out the back of a 6" diameter ash tree that the bullet had center punched before it hit the deer. Next day I cut that section of the tree out and mounted it below the antlers.

Not only would I do that, I actually did something similar.

In 1976 I shot a small buck in the neck with a 270 W using 130 HSP. The bullet EXITED the neck THEN went THRU a pine sapling @ 5" in Dia. and EXITED. I cut that section out of the tree and kept it a number of years.

The reason I remember '76 is because I moved out of Ark . in March 1977.

Jerry

Several 150 gr Core Lokts from my 30-06 over 30 years of hunts. 139 SST, 140 Core Lokt and 156 Oryx from My 7X57. 115 partition from a 257 Roberts. so far the 140 partitions from my Swede punch right through.

30/30-150g core loct

308-125g Sierra and Nosler ballistic tips, we have killed a lot of big deer with this load using Win 748

7 mag-120g Nosler ballistic tips, deer do not travel over 40 yards, if they don't fall straight down

7 Mag-140g Sierra, deer died quickly, but bullet fragged. We slowed the bullet down with book min load of IMR 4350, bullet penetrated better at 3000.

7 Mag-150g Sierra MK-bullet blew up on the surface at 320 yards, trophy buck

6 Remington and 243-100g sierra btsp, deer always die running

243-85g sierra bthp, this was 20 years ago, they may have changed the bullet

223-55g Winchester at 3100, deer died on the spot, so did the antelope at 470 yards

270 Win-110g Sierra at 3350, bullet may or may not go through a deer if hit on shoulders, but great results on killing them with little or no running. Good penetration on lung broadside shots.

308-150g SST blew up on a shoulder shot at 45 or so yards, killed him from the shock-120 lb meat buck

Wow. I would be interested in what the conditions were for the 156 Oryx. Wouldn't think a deer could catch one of those.