125 grain SST vs bushy tails

[badguybuster]

I got this doe on the 27th about 2pm. It was pouring rain so no pic of her but I wanted to show the damage done by a 300 blackout rifle with a 10.5" barrel can do. The round was a handloaded 125 grain Hornady SST. The doe weighed about 125 pounds. Next to the one I head shot this was the fastest kill I have ever had on a deer. The bullet struck, she dropped like a stone. Then she got back up and walked about 8 feet. At that point she kinda looked around like "**** I think im dead" and crumpled. Whole time from shot to death was about 10- 15 seconds. Iwas extremely impressed with the bullet. The shot struck just in front of the right front shoulder angling away and exited out between the 4 and5th rib on the opposing side. Found two small fragments of the jacket in the hide. The exit was over an inch wide

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[Jupiter7]

For jacketed, that's about the best bullet for the 300blk. The barnes black tips being maybe slightly better but rare as hens teeth.

[Bret4207]

I'm confused. Where's the "bushytail" (squirrel) in the story? You'll have less bloodshot meat with cast.

[aspangler]

I'm confused. Where's the "bushytail" (squirrel) in the story? You'll have less bloodshot meat with cast.
Me too. Where's the "tree rat" aka bushy tail?

[badguybuster]

If I had meant tree rats I wouldve said tree rat :groner:

[badguybuster]

Although my stepson has shot a **** load of them this year

[Gray Fox]

For those of us not into ARs, the same thing can be done with that bullet or the 125 ballistic tip in a .30-30 lever gun, loaded one up the spout and one in the mag. Don't need more than one anyway. GF

[RoyEllis]

Maybe it's just me, but I've never heard a deer referred to as a "bushytail". That's the colloquial name for a squirrel everywhere I've hunted.:coffee:

[Bret4207]

Me too.

[badguybuster]

Weird everyone I know calls them that we call squirrels tree rats

[Hickory]

A bushytail and a whitetail are different.
One can climb a tree one can not.

[Bret4207]

Tree rat, bushytail, squirrel, yeah. Deer = bushytail????!!!! Never, ever heard of it. Thus, my confusion. Call 'em what you like.

[btroj]

Never heard a deer called a bushy tail. Never.

I expected to see a squirrel, tree rat, whatever. A deer? Never.

[badguybuster]

Different strokes for different folks

[Hickory]

Not just different strokes for different folks.

In order to communicate properly with people the proper
words need to be used with the same meaning by all.

In America we have Whitetail, Blacktail, Mule Deer and in Alaska we have Sitka Deer.
No where in the United States of America is there such an animal as a Bushytail deer.

[btroj]

Weird everyone I know calls them that we call squirrels tree rats


We call them tree rats too.

What we want to know is who calls deer a bushy tail? To everyone I know who hunts a bushy tail is a squirrel.

[badguybuster]

Good grief people let it go :groner:

[richhodg66]

That same bullet works real well in a .308 with 37 grains of 4895. Son has used it on several deer, accurate, almost no recoil, kills deer fast.