Quartering Away Shot

[roger1shot]

Hey,
My brother shot a doe with the T/C 300 gr yellow tip sabot,with his 50 cal.cva 150 grain charge.
The doe was only about 50yds away,but the doe was Quartering away to the left.
Very little blood at the spot where he shot the deer.The blood trail was just small drops,not much bigger than a match head.
The bullet made a exit, high and close to the neck.
The bullet seem to blow up on the side,making a 2" cut but only a 1"exit.
And very little blood at night. I was think we were going to lose this deer,the blood drops quit altogether after about 25 yds.
My brother was on his hands looking for blood on the ground.
I walked ahead about 25 yds in the pine woods of East Texas and there was the doe,stone dead .
I was thinking my brother had made a poor shot at first, with the lack of blood.
But after seeing where the deer was shot,now I'm thinking that the Quartering
shot with these T/C 300gr Yellow tip sabots are a poor bullet.
I had my .50 cal Knight loaded with the Barns 245 spit fires with 150 gr charge.Do ya'll think that the Barn's bullet would have done a better job on the Quartering away shot
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[stevelyn]

That isn't unusual. You brother shoots, the deer runs and piles up 25 yrds away. There wasn't enough time for the blood to start flowing out of the wound. Plus the wound was high. Any bleeding would fill up the body cavity before it start out of the wound in significant amounts. If the heart was damaged on the shot, of course it wouldn't be pumping blood any longer to leave a trail.

The bullet seems to have done its job satisfactorily. It basically entered in one side, traveled a good length of the deer scrambling internal organs on the trip through and exited. I can't find anything wrong with this picture.

 

[roger1shot]

The Shot

Thanks
But the heart wasn't hurt.
What do ya'll think about the Nosler Partitions in Muzzlerloaders?

 

[stevelyn]

I'm a patched round ball caplock shooter so I don't have any experience w/ sabots.
However, the Nosler Partition is my favorite big game bullet for meese and bears. I can't see how you can go wrong stuffing it into a muzzleloader.

 

[Weird Guy]

Well, I think having a dead dear after you shot it proves the bullet was a good one.

I am curious if you think the bullet hit the windpipe. The blood might have all gone into it's lungs and not out on the ground.

 

[roger1shot]

Windpipe ?

Hey,
Now that I think about it,the deer did have alot of blood around the nose.
At the time I didn't think much about it.
When my brother cut the wind pipe out,from the bottom of the neck.The windpipe looked ok to me .But there could have been some damage that I didn't see.

 

[roger1shot]

Windpipe ?

Hey,
Now that I think about it,the deer did have alot of blood around the nose.
At the time I didn't think much about it.
When my brother cut the wind pipe out,from the bottom of the neck.The windpipe looked ok to me .But there could have been some damage that I didn't see.

 

[roger1shot]

Windpipe ?

Hey,
Now that I think about it,the deer did have alot of blood around the nose.
At the time I didn't think much about it.
When my brother cut the wind pipe out,from the bottom of the neck.The windpipe looked ok to me .But there could have been some damage that I didn't see.

 

[roger1shot]

Windpipe ?

Hey,
Now that I think about it,the deer did have alot of blood around the nose.
At the time I didn't think much about it.
When my brother cut the wind pipe out,from the bottom of the neck.The windpipe looked ok to me .But there could have been some damage that I didn't see.

 

[roger1shot]

Windpipe ?

Hey,
Now that I think about it,the deer did have alot of blood around the nose.
At the time I didn't think much about it.
When my brother cut the wind pipe out,from the bottom of the neck.The windpipe looked ok to me .But there could have been some damage that I didn't see.

 

[roger1shot]

Windpipe ?

Hey,
Now that I think about it,the deer did have alot of blood around the nose.
At the time I didn't think much about it.
When my brother cut the wind pipe out,from the bottom of the neck.The windpipe looked ok to me .But there could have been some damage that I didn't see.

 

[mg66]

Sounds like it busted a lung, maybe both to get blood around the nose, especially if it was bright red blood. I have shot deer with bow and gun where there was very little blood trail due to the fact that the shot was a tad on the high side causing the lung cavity to fill and very little blood from the exit (I say only exit as I tree-stand hunt and the entry is usually higher than the exit). Just a thought and basically agree with stevelyn and weirdguy.