10-21-2011, 02:43 AM
A big thanks goes to my buddy who took the photos. It's nice to have a great photographer along!
No bullets were recovered; all were complete pass throughs. I don't really have much info on the 123 amax that my neighbor's brother in law used. He lives local, went home, and so I didn't get a good look at his pronghorn. I know that he hit it twice from about 300 yds. I think the wind may have bit him some on the first shot.
My neighbor's doe was quarting toward us slightly 185 yds away. The wind was almost directly in our face, so I told him to ignore wind drift. We had zeroed his rifle at 200 yds, so he held dead on and made a great shot. The 120 NBT went in at the front of the shoulder and exited middle of the ribs on the opposite side, breaking 3 ribs on the way out. She just took a few steps and rolled down the hill.
My shot was really easy at 80 yds. The biggest challenge was timing the shot between wind gusts because the strong gusts would blow the cross hairs from the vitals to the guts as I braced my hand against the side of a boulder. At the shot my doe turned 180 deg and I could see the exit wound in a good spot. I learned early in my hunting carrer to "shoot again" if the animalnis still standing, so I immediately shot again. The second shot went through the onside shoulder, severed the spine, and broke the offside shoulder and exited.
YutYut tell your Sgt that I have shot about 20 big game animals (mainly whitetail) with my Grendel, and none of them have lived to complain about it!
-PA
No bullets were recovered; all were complete pass throughs. I don't really have much info on the 123 amax that my neighbor's brother in law used. He lives local, went home, and so I didn't get a good look at his pronghorn. I know that he hit it twice from about 300 yds. I think the wind may have bit him some on the first shot.
My neighbor's doe was quarting toward us slightly 185 yds away. The wind was almost directly in our face, so I told him to ignore wind drift. We had zeroed his rifle at 200 yds, so he held dead on and made a great shot. The 120 NBT went in at the front of the shoulder and exited middle of the ribs on the opposite side, breaking 3 ribs on the way out. She just took a few steps and rolled down the hill.
My shot was really easy at 80 yds. The biggest challenge was timing the shot between wind gusts because the strong gusts would blow the cross hairs from the vitals to the guts as I braced my hand against the side of a boulder. At the shot my doe turned 180 deg and I could see the exit wound in a good spot. I learned early in my hunting carrer to "shoot again" if the animalnis still standing, so I immediately shot again. The second shot went through the onside shoulder, severed the spine, and broke the offside shoulder and exited.
YutYut tell your Sgt that I have shot about 20 big game animals (mainly whitetail) with my Grendel, and none of them have lived to complain about it!
-PA