Terminal Performance

[mattd]

Small MO buck. Shot with my sporterized 303 brit. 173g lovern bullet going low 1800fps. 12 yard shot in the neck dropped him in his tracks. The alloy was a little soft....I had mixed pure and 'lino' together to approximate 50/50, but found out that spacers are not lino, so it came out softer then 50/50 and leaded all my other guns but this one, and it shot great out of this one. Didn't have time before season to work with a diff alloy.

Entered neck, blew out a section of spine and lodged in the offside shoulder. Retained weight is 120g. The entrance has about a tennis ball area of blood shot meat, the exit thru the chest cavity has a little bigger, but the shoulder on the other side of the chest cavity exit had none. Like the bullet just poked into shoulder meat and was about an inch deep in there. Total penetration, thru thick spine, is about 15-18 inches.

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Entrance (this is just the neck, not the whole body. makes an optical illusion for size):
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Exit (a lot of the red is the jelly between the body and the shoulder, and is just covering meat. the blood shot part is darker red):
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[Sweetpea]

Good looking rifle.

One of these years, I'll get my 303 out to hunt with.

As long as your rifle likes that boolit and load, I'd say your alloy is great, with that much retained weight, at that distance.

[richhodg66]

Nice little deer. The .303 British is a darn fine round. Looks like it worked out well for you, congrats.

[runfiverun]

that's not too bad.
a little harder alloy would be fine, but if the shot come at 100 yds instead of under 20 you'd have even less damage.
so your balance isn't that bad at all.

[44man]

You actually recovered boolits?

[mattd]

Of 4 cast deer kills i've recovered 2 bullets. A HP 311299 that traversed over 40 inches of deer and mushroomed perfectly, and this one which i owe to being too soft and expanding alot and hitting a significant bone.

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[44man]

Ok. Good to go and make more meat.