Originally Posted by
geargnasher
Joe, I just took two nice whitetails yesterday evening with my CG Swede and (Gulp) softpoint J-words at an embarrassingly close distance. Due to having to shoot fast standing offhand (something I, like most hunters, never practice enough) I chose to shoot them both through the shoulders and punched the neatest little holes through them. Both jumped straight up in the air and ran 30-40 yards before collapsing (both heart-shot), but I think would have gone much further without broken shoulders as they required sidearm finishing shots for the sake of being humane. These little holes, even after hitting bone, is why I dislike j-words in small calibers for hunting deer. There was so little tissue damage that the hearts were edible and most of the shoulder meat wasn't even bruised.
Point is I really don't like to shoot something knowing it will take it two minutes to die. There are far more humane ways to stock the freezer, and that is the primary reason I want to shoot reasonably soft cast with the Swede and .270, it either needs to do to a deer's heart/lungs what your Swede did to that water jug or be so accurate I can take careful head/neck shots at long range, preferably both. Right now my .30-30 win and .30-'06 are the only guns I own that can come close to that goal, and I should have used one of them yesterday except I hadn't ever killed a deer with that particular Swede.
Soooooooo, you know where I am and where I want to be, how about throwing me a bone?
Gear