tdoyka
12-11-2016, 03:50 PM
this has been a good year with three deer kills. my dad killed an 8pt and a doe and i killed a large old doe. both of my dad's deer where killed using a j-word and my doe was killed by a cast boolit. i was using my tc encore in 444 marlin(23" MGM barrel) with a 275gr ranch dog(coww/air cooled) and 41.0grof rel7(around 2000fps). i shot it at 20+/- yards and the doe was broadside quartering away(a little bit). at the shot the doe was drt, so there was no tracking. it was the first time i've ever had to field dress a deer with only one hand. but it takes quite a bit more to put it in the truck when you are using two crippled up b!@#$%^&[smilie=l:(i had a stroke and my dad has laser back surgery to do).
but i'm a little disappointed of the boolit. i shot her between the ribs, thru both lower lungs, thru lower heart, breaks another rib and the boolit goes out thru the offside shoulder and leaves like a 3" exit wound. no pix, because by the time it was dark, it was field dressed and put into the back of the truck, we had a 1 1/2 hours to get to the butcher(we decided it was too much to do ourselves, both of us were exhausted try to put the doe into the truck).
anyway, both the lungs and the lower part of the heart were just in tatters, i couldn't even try to discover what the heart and lungs once were. it looked to me like it was lung soup with a little bit of heart. it looked alot like the 270win with 130gr nosler bt expect the bt doesn't go thru. the offside it broke a rib(might of been 2, too dark for me to see) and then the boolit goes into the offside shoulder(the leg was completely broke at the shoulder). then the boolit goes out of the doe leaving a 3+/-" hole. i know i should have skinned the doe out, but from me it looks like the entire shoulder was put into the garbage.
i have(oldest boy) killed another doe with a 165gr ranch dog(30-40 krag) with coww/air cooled that goes around 1800fps. i have eaten right up to the hole. i "think" that the 275gr rd goes a little too fast. i think i have to reread goodsteel's I believe the cast lead rifle boolit is the most effective projectile in the world. (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?172689-I-believe-the-cast-lead-rifle-boolit-is-the-most-effective-projectile-in-the-world) i know that one boolit is not considered a test, far from it. since i only have 20-30 275gr rd, i'm not too worried about it. i do have montana bullets works in 280gr wfn gc(lyman #2/15bhn) that i can use. does anybody use a 280gr around 1700-1900fps? how do you like it?
but i'm a little disappointed of the boolit. i shot her between the ribs, thru both lower lungs, thru lower heart, breaks another rib and the boolit goes out thru the offside shoulder and leaves like a 3" exit wound. no pix, because by the time it was dark, it was field dressed and put into the back of the truck, we had a 1 1/2 hours to get to the butcher(we decided it was too much to do ourselves, both of us were exhausted try to put the doe into the truck).
anyway, both the lungs and the lower part of the heart were just in tatters, i couldn't even try to discover what the heart and lungs once were. it looked to me like it was lung soup with a little bit of heart. it looked alot like the 270win with 130gr nosler bt expect the bt doesn't go thru. the offside it broke a rib(might of been 2, too dark for me to see) and then the boolit goes into the offside shoulder(the leg was completely broke at the shoulder). then the boolit goes out of the doe leaving a 3+/-" hole. i know i should have skinned the doe out, but from me it looks like the entire shoulder was put into the garbage.
i have(oldest boy) killed another doe with a 165gr ranch dog(30-40 krag) with coww/air cooled that goes around 1800fps. i have eaten right up to the hole. i "think" that the 275gr rd goes a little too fast. i think i have to reread goodsteel's I believe the cast lead rifle boolit is the most effective projectile in the world. (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?172689-I-believe-the-cast-lead-rifle-boolit-is-the-most-effective-projectile-in-the-world) i know that one boolit is not considered a test, far from it. since i only have 20-30 275gr rd, i'm not too worried about it. i do have montana bullets works in 280gr wfn gc(lyman #2/15bhn) that i can use. does anybody use a 280gr around 1700-1900fps? how do you like it?