Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters A real head-scratcher in the field on Saturday...

One year back in the '80s we were hunting in Wyoming. The lady who owned the ranch where we were hunting asked us if we used the hearts when we got a deer. Neither of us like heart so we agreed to give her ours.

I shot a deer and we passed the heart along as requested. The next day my buddy shot a buck in the neck. Can't remember whether the bullet exited or not. When the deer was opened up the heart was completely pulped but untouched by a bullet. All we could figure was that an artery had been hit and sent a pressure wave into the heart.

We gave the lady our apologies but not sure whether she believed us or not.

Jim

This is why I took physics in summer school. It's alot to bend your mind around.

I thought of another strange one. I found a box of .30 cal, 180 grain Nosler Partitions with a few missing down Kittery Trading Post marked down. I bought them and saved them for a special occasion. I got a .300 Win Pre 64 style with the Boss and went on a hog hunt. At 200 yards, I shot 2 pigs behind the ear. The guys I was with said both pigs rolled over and didn't even twitch. Both were around 200 pounds. I got up to them expecting spectacular results and both had 1 little hold going in an nothing coming out. I was kind of stunned that a 180 grain bullet out of a .300 Win Mag didn't go through a pig's head. I hear all kinds of stories about thick skulls, but wonder about that one.

You want to see some really weird stuff take up archery hunting!

Yeah, I have seen some fairly weird stuff with arrows too....

Yep, it's a Model 88 in .308 WIN; I sure enjoy hunting with M88's (got another one in .284 WIN). If I ever see a decent M88 .243 WIN I am going to buy it too.

Well, the 140-gr. InterLock redeemed itself Saturday on a nice January doe. So, it will continue its long-favored place on my loading bench. Onward...

shot a buck in the neck at 120yds this weekend with my 300rum 200gr accubond first time i had one not exit.it hit the neck bone and it came apart going down into the lungs and heart

Don't you know that the only thing a 270 is good for is wounding a deer.That is what my wife's relative told me after I missed the first deer I shot at with my 270.Got to love those old gezzers with their sense of humor.It sounds like it hit something first,got it going a little of balance.Just my 2 cents

It happens. That is why I always advise averaging out results. Too many people shoot one and become and expert and condemn product others are extremely happy with.

I had the same thing happen with a Fallow buck at 75 yards quartering towards me. The bullet entered the shoulder with intent to drive through the opposite lung, perhaps clip the heart on the way through. The buck jumped like a bronc and fell dead. When I examined it, the 90gn Sako SP factory load had performed a U-Turn and exited out the throat (almost in my direction) with a 4 inch vertical tear.

That .243 never let me down and the buck was in the bag but that bullet??? After killing a few more animals I realized it was just one of those things. Get on with it!

Bullets do weird things, no doubt. I once shot a 200 pound 8 point WT buck at a distance of about 25 or 30 yards, standing broadside in the brush, all I could see was the head and neck. I hit him in the middle of the neck with a 140 grain NBT out of my 7mm RM. Spine shattered, he wendt straight down so fast he was upright, all four legs folded under him and the rack pitched forward and stuck in the ground. When I walked around to the other side of him I saw a tiny spot of blood over the middle of his off side shoulder, felt a lump, dug out my bullet from just under the skin. How did it get there? It weighed 70 grains.