I've only been able to get the one picture so far, I'm not a very camera happy person. If I stop what I'm doing to take one picture, that's doing good for me. I'll attempt to get some better ones here in a few minutes. I shot him with was with the 170gr lee flat nose that ends up at close to 180 gr after gas check and lube. Charged with 10 gr of unique for ~1500 fps. From the 1961 win '94 in 30-30 it's a fairly accurate load giving about 3" @ 100 yrd with very litle noise or recoil. I havnt started butchering him yet to see the damage done to the shoulder, but the bullet clipped the front of one lung, center punched the heart, caught the rear of they other lung, the liver, and the diaphragm. It was a smidgen over a 30 cal hole with about a golf ball size area worth of damage to everything. Not quite as damaging as I expected but still good enough to bring him down quick. I think the alloy is a little harder than I thought and I needto up my velocity a little to get a little more expansion. Though I will stick with that unique load for my day to day plinking.
While dragging this deer out my buddy and I jumped up a larger antlered buck with a couple of does. They didn't spook to bad and he had his any deer tag still, so we tried cutting him off. While still hunting through a thick spot we thought he might have held up we found a "doe" standing there muching on something at about 60 yards. So my fiend and I still having a couple of doe tags still decided to take "her" and do a double tap. At the count down and fire comand I wasn't quite perfectly lined up, but his bullet caught perfectly behind the shoulder and mine caught the liver. We saw it run about 20 yards and heard it go down, so we took a couple minutes working out way around seeing if that buck might be in the area, which he wasn't. We decided to go find the "doe" and get her out. "She" didn't go far at all and left a massive blood trail, but wasn't quite dead, since we only waited a few minutes since we heard her fall. And we found that it was a spike, that due the the thick brush neither of us saw the antlers. But while it was working on standing up I put one more cast boolit into his heart and it was done. When my friend dressed it what he saw that my bullets did replicated what I saw they did on my deer. A caliber sized hole with about a golf all sized damage area. So I'll make up a faster charge to try to get a little more damage to put them down quicker.
I also cast for my ruger Blackhawk in 45 colt. That thing love a paper patched 255 gr semi was cutter over h110. It's funny the revolver loves paper patch and the rifle hates it.
In the picture the hole you see is the exit. He was quartering toward me a little harder than I thought. He was close enough that with me on the ground I. Had a slight downward angle on the shot. He's not the largest antlered deer in the woods, but that means he the perfect size for me to make tip overlays out of. and he is my largest bodied harvest to date. I'll try to get some more pictures up soon.
Thanks for looking, and sorry about all the rambling, it was a fun day with lots to tell.it seems like hunting with friends always turns out interesting.
Kyle
