steveNChunter
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I finally convinced my wife to brave the cold and go hunting with me this evening. She has hunted with me a few times each season for the last three years but this was her first time out this year. We saw this spike right before dark at about 75 yards and waited for it to walk out into a clearing. It was walking at a brisk pace so when it got to the clearing I did my best impersonation of a doe bleat so it would stop. She was already looking through the scope and as soon as the deer stopped she pulled the trigger. It jumped and ran about 30 yards leaving a decent blood trail. She had made a perfect shot on him, broadside right behind the shoulder.
Her rifle is a Remington Model 7 .243 win. She was shooting an 85 gr Nosler partition over 38 grains of W760 (a staring powder charge in most manuals). There was a little more than caliber-size entry hole and quarter-size exit hole. It went right through the heart, blowing it in half and clipped one lung on the way through. This is the first year I have loaded for her rifle, the 95 gr Federal Fusions she had been using performed well, but they generated a little more recoil than she cared for, especially in the lightweight model 7. I'm proud of the performance of the load, but most of all I'm proud of my hunter!
Jackie Bushman ain't got nothin' on her
Her rifle is a Remington Model 7 .243 win. She was shooting an 85 gr Nosler partition over 38 grains of W760 (a staring powder charge in most manuals). There was a little more than caliber-size entry hole and quarter-size exit hole. It went right through the heart, blowing it in half and clipped one lung on the way through. This is the first year I have loaded for her rifle, the 95 gr Federal Fusions she had been using performed well, but they generated a little more recoil than she cared for, especially in the lightweight model 7. I'm proud of the performance of the load, but most of all I'm proud of my hunter!
Jackie Bushman ain't got nothin' on her
