Starting couple years ago, was offered access to a hunting ranch in South Texas so for the 2016-17 season I made the trek down after I worked up a load... (can see my other threads if interested)
This was the first buck I'd gotten. Used a 1955 Remington 722A .244 (6mm Rem) and a load I'd been developing: 90 grain Speer Hot Cor. This is virtually identical or as close as one can get to the original factory ammo offered in 1955: #1244 Remington 244 Hi-Speed 90 grain pointed soft point.
After 5 or 6 days.... A nice 8 point buck appeared one afternoon thru the brush. At first just saw the antlers and then bits of the head - had to wait for a clean broad shot but it came... Shot was just under 90 yards in late afternoon. Aimed above/behind shoulder and that's where the bullet went (RH side - not shown) and did not exit. It was a lung shot - he ran about 50 feet back into the cactus and mesquite before dropping. It was easy to track due to presumed lung shot to a small clearing and luckily after tagging, field dressing, I found a slightly less thorny route to drag him out of the mess of spines and thorns! At least the only snakes I've ever seen there are Blue Indigos. After dressing - came out to be about 105 lbs. We've certainly appreciated the meat.
This was the first buck I'd gotten. Used a 1955 Remington 722A .244 (6mm Rem) and a load I'd been developing: 90 grain Speer Hot Cor. This is virtually identical or as close as one can get to the original factory ammo offered in 1955: #1244 Remington 244 Hi-Speed 90 grain pointed soft point.
After 5 or 6 days.... A nice 8 point buck appeared one afternoon thru the brush. At first just saw the antlers and then bits of the head - had to wait for a clean broad shot but it came... Shot was just under 90 yards in late afternoon. Aimed above/behind shoulder and that's where the bullet went (RH side - not shown) and did not exit. It was a lung shot - he ran about 50 feet back into the cactus and mesquite before dropping. It was easy to track due to presumed lung shot to a small clearing and luckily after tagging, field dressing, I found a slightly less thorny route to drag him out of the mess of spines and thorns! At least the only snakes I've ever seen there are Blue Indigos. After dressing - came out to be about 105 lbs. We've certainly appreciated the meat.
Again it was just under a 90 yard shot and it was again an 8 pointer. After dressing - came out to be right at 100 lbs. 
