My dad retired from hunting and gave me his Browning Micro Medallion .243. Killed my second deer with it today (dink if anyone's interested) and I'm really starting to like the 243. Now the bullet mystery. This dink was shot on the right side quartering away. When recovered he had 5 holes all on the right side. Looks like the bullet entered just behind the last rib and exited dead center of his right shoulder(silver dollar size exit hole). Several ribs were broken as well as the shoulder. Could the extra holes (about caliber sized) have been caused by bone fragments or maybe the bullet coming apart. Just weird that the bullet went in on the right and exited on the right. Appears to have run forward under the skin breaking ribs and sending bone into the chest cavity doing some serious damage. By the way the bullet was a 100 grain green box Rem.
Public land and 5 hunters shot at the same time! That's the only explanation I can think of. 
Was it DRT or did it run?
Was it DRT or did it run?
Private family land and I hunted alone. He ran about 40 yards.
Did it take out the ribs pretty much in a straight line? Any internals damaged? Sounds like either bullet fragments broke off when going through the ribs or ribs shattered along the way. You say quartering away....but was his azz pointed almost straight at you?
strange things.. I wouldn't drive myself worrying about it...
if you don't reload, then the Rem 100 grainers will work..
if you do reload, there is a million different bullets that will do fine..
if you don't reload, then the Rem 100 grainers will work..
if you do reload, there is a million different bullets that will do fine..
Dead deer, nothing wrong with that and not every shot will be textbook DRT.
My first buck, a small 8pt was shot right through the boiler room at 40 yards with a 165gr Ballistic Tip out of a 308, second longest tracking job in my lifetime.
If you reload, heavywalker has a great deal on 85gr TSX's on the classifieds.
My first buck, a small 8pt was shot right through the boiler room at 40 yards with a 165gr Ballistic Tip out of a 308, second longest tracking job in my lifetime.
If you reload, heavywalker has a great deal on 85gr TSX's on the classifieds.
Sounds like bone fragments to me. In my experience, the .243 is a deer killing machine.
You didn't say what bullet you were using......but I'm betting bone fragments made the surplus of holes.
Casey
Originally Posted by jd3006
My dad retired from hunting and gave me his Browning Micro Medallion .243. Killed my second deer with it today (dink if anyone's interested) and I'm really starting to like the 243. Now the bullet mystery. ... By the way the bullet was a 100 grain green box Rem.
You didn't say what bullet you were using......but I'm betting bone fragments made the surplus of holes.
Casey
Originally Posted by jd3006
By the way the bullet was a 100 grain green box Rem.
I stopped using corelocts in my 243 because of bullet fragmentation. Just too much meat damage. Mule Deer posted something pretaining to this a while back.