Yep…It still dumbfounds me to this day, but dang if it doesn't do it! That experience was an eye-opener for me!
Something so small and fragile, yet fragging a powerful speeding projectile like that?
Down in Texas in the 60's the experienced hunters would tell us kids…"Don't hunt without a .30/30, they are 'brushbusters'!"
It makes me wonder just how true that statement really was?
I thought I would be ahead of them all by getting the .444 Marlin…prolly was just as affected, I dunnoh really?
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While deer hunting during muzzleloader season I had a chance to take a nice fat doe it was about a 40 yard shot but all I could see was her head.
I took my time and aimed between her eyes squeezed the trigger when the smoke cleared the doe was gone.
I said what the he** my friend came over we started looking for blood trail always got to give it your best try.
My friend found a small thin (did I say thin) limb, more like a twig sticking out sideways that had been shot clean off.
I stooped down from where the nice fat doe was to look at the tree stand and sure enough the limb/twig was in the way.
100 grains of GOEX and a 44 XTP from my Knight MK85 and one darn twig cost me a nice fat doe.
So much for busting the brush I guess I should have been glad it wasn't a fly.
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OS OK of the first 16 only one has a target to back his story.
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Thomas Tabor wrote an article in Handloaders digest 12th edition called ''Bullets can bust brush''.Originally Posted by Swede44mag
Also Outdoor Life and The Box of Truth have done experiments on this topic.
http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/hun...t-rifle-bullet
http://www.theboxotruth.com/the-box-...e-box-o-truth/
Last edited by rwadley; 05-27-2016 at 07:59 AM.
Don't think I get what you mean? What?
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Charlie:
he is talking about the posters.
Posters? Do you mean target pictures? All I have are of the previous days ladder workups. Is he calling me a liar without saying so directly?
I'm somewhat naive this morning. Not quite ready for a good fight.
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I could be wrong, but are those powder burns on the target?
Ha!...Then you know how I get the 5 shot groups in 1 hole every time?
You know about the muzzle flash setting the targets on fire before I can snap a pic...
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he was talking about the posts on the previous page and all the baloney.
there was only one picture with a target actually hitting a fly.
I think he missed the point of having fun.
I ran a falling plates pistol shoot for 7 years. We had a guy on the rifle range come over and tell us we were shooting over the berm and hitting his 200 meter target. I laughed and said this bunch of jokers couldn't hit it on a bet with our pistols. (Not really kidding). He came back a while later and said all the holes flew away when he went to retrieve his target
Try misting the targets down first!Ha!...Then you know how I get the 5 shot groups in 1 hole every time?
You know about the muzzle flash setting the targets on fire before I can snap a pic...
…Why didn't I think of that?
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In my neighborhood mosquitoes are considered medium big game.
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