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Not a bad question. Were Dinks considered game animals back in the day?

Yes.

Always and forever.

I was 30 thirty years ago knucklehead. Bullets don't bounce off of antelopes shoulders, then or now. Maybe you were huntin with your Red Ryder BB gun while watching A Christmas Story

For you they were, I wish I could have watched you. 🤣🤣🤣

OK then, likely the bullet count was around 8,000 for the average hunt when they showed their ass.

Show off

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I didn't miss, but only got to shoot a few.

That's ok, you prolly dinged a few you didn't even know about. 🤣

Probably. There was no bag limit.

Hmm. Took 6 shoots on a bull elk.
First shot broke his shoulder and her ran down into a drainage/creek bed and back up on the other side.
Tried to connect on him while he was on the run and went though remainder 4 rounds. When he finally stopped on other side of the hill, about same height I was standing at. I could only see his neck though the brush.
Squeeze off and click. Kept my rifle on him because I want sure I’d find him and grabbed an extra mag I had in the back pack/waist strap pocket. Shot number 6 finished him with a neck shot.
Also Found a broad head and a partition in his hind quarter. I shoot ttsx.
Good bull for 2.5 year old. One of quarters had to get thrown out on it.

Myself and two friends took a guys whose name is Larry on a hound hunt for a bear. Larry wanted to shoot one with his bow so he had the quiver loaded with six arrows and was carrying an old 357 Blackhawk in a waist holster. We turned loose the dogs and within an hour had a 250 lb bear treed. He was only about halfway up the tree perched on a big limb. Larry got excited. The dogs were howling and bear was moving around branch and Larry started shooting. He shot all six arrows in his bow connecting wit a couple of them. Harry and I scrounged up a couple arrows that had come to ground and he shot them agin. Bear still not dead. Larry then pulled his old Blackhawk and completely emptied it too ! By now Harry is on the ground behind him rolling with fits of laughter. Larry reloaded the 357 and shot three more times before he rolled that bear outta the tree. Id have to go back and count all the shots but it was a bunch.
Was quite a day.

Best, Billy

Well, took about 5 shots with 00 at a buck on a south Georgia dog drive. The deer popped out of the thick brush about 15 feet in front of me and caught me off guard. He saw me and went into high gear, and I started wing shooting. Folded him with the last shot, I think I did kill a bunch of small trees tho.

Same place, saw a buck about 12 chains away (264 yards) running across a field of bedded pines. Took one shot at him as he paused and he jumped as I pulled the trigger. Wasn't sure if I hit him, so I took a running shot before he disappeared into the swamp. I got on his trail, and discovered the last shot had entered high on his right hip angling down, opening up his belly like I had field dressed him. He strung guts for 20 yards on bushes, before they tore off and the blood trail nearly disappeared. I tracked him nearly a half mile before I found him bedded in thick titi. He stood up when I approached and tried to hook me, had to grab one side of the rack and cut his throat to end it.

They can be so darn tough, other times I've killed them with 1 arrow and they barely took a step after the shot.

But so far, with the exception of this one, all others have been one shot kills from either an 06, 280, or my favorite 1950 Marlin 30-30.

But not 8 shots yet...

Three shots on the biggest whitetail I had ever seen at that point, 152” ten point.
But it was with a muzzleloader. Back when shooting hours in Illinois ended at sunset, saw the buck 70 yards away with 10 minutes left for legal shooting. First shot slightly quartering to me broke the left shoulder. Buck ran/stumbled toward me and laid down 12 yards off the base of the tree I was in. Waited a couple minutes for him to expire then looked at my watch and only had 5 minutes left on shooting hours. Didn’t want him to get up and stumble off after hours. Reloaded and fired a steep angle shot to anchor him. He jumped up, ran 40 yards and laid down again with his head up looking around. I fired shot three with 2 minutes on the clock and he tipped over for good. Every shot was fatal but the clock pressured me to keep shooting. I hated shooting hours ending when you still had a good 30 minutes of daylight left. They changed that rule a few years later.

I've fired 3 shots twice. Once at the best whitetail I've ever killed and the other time at a 260 lb black bear. The 1st shot was the killing shot both times, but the animals showed no signs of being hit so I kept shooting.

The deer ran about 100 yards before just falling over. The bear about 50 yards, stopped and looked back. The 3rd shot finished him, but he wouldn't have gone far without it.

I just wanna hear more stories about bullets bouncing off of antelopes shoulders

😂🤣😂🤣😂😁

Loading Bt at 3200 might get those. Kept at <2900, not so much. Pays to know the bullet you are using. Pays even more to put it where it will do its job.

I went to hunt deer with my uncle and cousing back when I was about sixteen. Took my Winchester 1200 20ga, with slugs. Well, that was no good, according to my uncle. He loaned me his 742 .243. So here I sit on a log in this little ravine, holding that 742 with the ten round mag full of what was probably Corelokt 100gr. ammo, and this line of does come down the hill at me. I just let them come. Shot the lead doe in the chest at 20 yards. She turns to the right, but doesn’t go down. I hit her again, right behind the shoulder. She starts moving, so I kept shooting. I think I was seven or eight rounds in when she fell. My uncle said it sounded like war broke out. I was simply thinking I should have used the 20ga. It was a small doe, but she ate good, even though the chest cavity was jello. I don’t know if the bullets failed to open, came apart, or she was just a “tough” deer.

Those old early 90’s ballistic tips were not exactly the best bullet out there. What a mess they would sometimes make on animals as small as pronghorn. I can’t say I ever saw them fail to penetrate a doe antelope’s shoulder, but based on what I did see of them, .277” and .308” specifically, at hyper velocity I wouldn’t totally discount the possibility.

FWIW, I have seen 6.5mm bergers blow up on elk shoulders without penetrating, but I am half convinced it was my particular rifle that made them fail.

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