globemaster3
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Seems about once a year or so we get a discussion on the merits of match bullet use on game. I normally advocate for the use of hunting bullets since they were built for the purpose of... hunting. Until this year, however, I had never seen anyone use match bullets on game first hand.
This year I had the opportunity to observe the results of 7 whitetails shot with the 6.5 Creedmore using Hornady ELD Match. Here are the facts of my observations:
- All shots were standard boiler-room hits except 1 which was a liver hit.
- Only 1 provided an exit wound
- In the 6 that stayed in, none of the bullets were recovered whole. All fragmented to a large extent.
- All exhibited little-no blood trail. Fortunately, none went too far.
Although the 100% fatal results might give some the impression that this is acceptable, the lack of exit wound and limited blood trail would have made tracking very difficult had it been in more rugged or dense terrain.
On a better note, my 120 gr 6.8 SSTs didn’t let me down and resulted in a meat doe for the freezer on my side and my middle boy getting his first deer, a doe, at 102 yards.
This year I had the opportunity to observe the results of 7 whitetails shot with the 6.5 Creedmore using Hornady ELD Match. Here are the facts of my observations:
- All shots were standard boiler-room hits except 1 which was a liver hit.
- Only 1 provided an exit wound
- In the 6 that stayed in, none of the bullets were recovered whole. All fragmented to a large extent.
- All exhibited little-no blood trail. Fortunately, none went too far.
Although the 100% fatal results might give some the impression that this is acceptable, the lack of exit wound and limited blood trail would have made tracking very difficult had it been in more rugged or dense terrain.
On a better note, my 120 gr 6.8 SSTs didn’t let me down and resulted in a meat doe for the freezer on my side and my middle boy getting his first deer, a doe, at 102 yards.