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Folks tend to aim a little low on a frontal, myself included.
I started shooting maybe six-inches higher and it picks up the spine every single time. That dumps them most rickey-tick.
Steve
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I shot end to end on one like that a few years back. I was shooting a 7mm/08 with 154 grain Hornady RN bullets. Did about 75 yards worth of tracking on that one. Highly unusual for that rifle. It was the last year I used that bullet out of that rifle.
CT, There may not be any better bullet for your 7-08 than the one you abandoned. There is nothing wrong with the 154gr Hornady that a little better placement won't cure. I don't doubt it was the fault of the trigger squeezer in that instance. I did quite a bit of experimenting with that rifle. It seemed to shoot everything I tried ridiculously well, except for those 154 grain RN's. There were so many other good bullets that it shot so well, I just didn't revisit those.
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On body length shots like this, ya think a heavier bullet would have been better? That is a lot to ask of any bullet. I shot a doe that way with a 180gr core lokt from a .308win. She fell on her butt, then got up and ran about 50 yards. The only blood there was at the site she dropped. She, like yours bleed a lot internally and the shoulder was pretty blood shot.
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It took a doe this year with a quartering toward me shot. She was feeding and head on. I could have take her in the back of the neck when the head was down, but waited. After five minuntes she gave me that quartering angle. I used a 180 gr. Hornady RN at 2580 fps from an '06. The range was about 50 yd. The bullet left a small entrance and exit wound.. Entry on the shoulder, and exit behind the ribs. She went 50 yd. and crashed into a balsam fir thicket. She probably would have gone a little farther with out the trees. I'm pretty sure I only got one lung, but it was raining so I didn't spend a lot of time investigating.
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