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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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That was some nice shooting.
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No. Very,very impressive. What kind of wound channel/damage did the postmortem show?
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That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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Lov.e the twack at impact! Reload, yeah right!
Good on you Sharps guy. The shot of the hammer being cocked just screams quality
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Very nice, especially the whack 
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Black powder, lead paper patched bullet, barrel sights, one-shot kill-- what more could a shooter want?....
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Bill,
That is as good as it gets right there!! Thanks for getting it on film and sharing it with the rest of us!
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Spined him. Good shooting.
I wish there was video of those 300-400 yard shots with iron sights he talks about.
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Guys, thanks for the flowers. The bullet hit tight behind the shoulder, centering a rib and blew a nickel sized hole through that. It took out the top of the heart and the big blood vessels there before going through the right lung. Then for some reason it turned and went up and hit the spine which it completely severed. It was about as anatomically an effective shot as you can get, but I was frankly surprised and disappointed that the bullet did not penetrate straight on through and exit out the other side.
I have shot several deer, a number of hogs and four bison with that bullet, and that is the first time that it has failed to give straight line penetration. In fact, a week earlier in Kwazulu Natal, I shot a cow kudu through and through the lungs and out the other side, then shot her on the point of the shoulder as she turned to face me using the same bullet. It penetrated a bit over 40 inches of kudu lengthwise and still weighs 476.5 of its original 480 grains. I was really surprised that it didn't go straight through the zebra.
I told the PH that I was disappointed that it didn't go on through, and he said "I know what you mean, but I really LIKE that bullet."
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I have video of a 302 yard shot on a kudu, a 325 yard shot on a springbok, and a 312 yard shot on a blue wildebeast that is being edited.
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S, I'd love to see it. That Zebra shot was way cool. Love seeing CNS hits on game . Usually, they're dead in their tracks.. 
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Bill I think the issue for the "round robin" your bullet took was the center hit on the rib. Where you shooting 20:1?
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jorge--I was shooting 30-1 which is what I almost always shoot. A rib or shoulder blade or a bison skull has yet to turn one. I actually suspect that somehow the bullet had some kind of internal flaw that caused it. Having said that, I somehow have a hard time getting my head around it, because those bullets were VERY carefully weighed and inspected after I cast them. I am normally pretty anal about the bullets I shoot, but these were going to AFRICA, for crying out loud, and I was very careful when I made them.
In any case, the zebra died instantly, as she still had grass in her mouth when we went up to her.
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Very nice! We all hope it works out that well.
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That is what I likes to see. DRT
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 Damn zebra must have thought a safe fell on his head
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Very impressive.. The visual impact is impressive as well as the shooting. The replay at the end of the video showed the bullet hit plainly
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You guys and your flyin bricks !!! 
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