I looks like I'm finally able to post the photo I couldn't get posted last fall. I rushed my shot because I couldn't imagine that little buck would stand there looking at me for very much longer. It was a broadside shot at 50 yards and I went high, well above the heart. He ran about 50 yards uphill then turned back down and collapsed about where he was standing when shot. The rifle was my Franz Kettner stalking rifle in 6.5x52R. The load was a handload in Hornady 25/35 brass with the Hornady 110 grain FTX bullet at about 2300 fps. That bullet was very destructive, the exit was a crater I could easily put my fist through, there was nothing identifiable as lung remaining, just red jelly. Kinda glad I did miss the heart, that's good eating and that bullet would have totally destroyed it.
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Montana whitetail with 6.5x52R
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Originally posted by CoyoteJoe View PostI looks like I'm finally able to post the photo I couldn't get posted last fall. I rushed my shot because I couldn't imagine that little buck would stand there looking at me for very much longer. It was a broadside shot at 50 yards and I went high, well above the heart. He ran about 50 yards uphill then turned back down and collapsed about where he was standing when shot. The rifle was my Franz Kettner stalking rifle in 6.5x52R. The load was a handload in Hornady 25/35 brass with the Hornady 110 grain FTX bullet at about 2300 fps. That bullet was very destructive, the exit was a crater I could easily put my fist through, there was nothing identifiable as lung remaining, just red jelly. Kinda glad I did miss the heart, that's good eating and that bullet would have totally destroyed it.
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Beautiful picture, Joe. You need to print and frame that one. Besides the large white tail deer I also like your more traditional hunting attire. It sure makes for a very nice picture as opposed to some of the orange pyjamas some jurisdictions require.
Peter
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Waidmannsheil Joe.
Thank you for the hunting report.
I think that the more reports that come back with cartridges like the 6.5x52r, the more of those guns will make it out of the closet and back into the field.
TomCarbonation without fermentation is tyranny.
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