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<blockquote data-quote="Azrael" data-source="post: 1457123" data-attributes="member: 106296"><p>I've had a few. One was when a friend and I were shooting our BPCR rifles at my range. I was working on loads while plinking at the full sized bison target I have at 650. The left-overs and rejects got shot off-hand at a gong I have at 220, partly because I need that practice and partly because they aren't good for anything else. Pulling cast bullet loads on compressed black powder just isnt going to happen. On different steel painting trips I found a dead shrew and 13 stripe gopher that were killed by the splatter. Just bad luck for them I guess.</p><p></p><p> A friend and I were deer hunting years back and were pretty much weathered out for the day. It turned ugly and was snowing hard. We were already driving out when I saw a little buck at about 400, quartering toward. He dropped at the shot, and though there may have been a little more kicking and snow flying than normal he was very dead in the time it took to get to him. He was hit just above the hock, had fallen and bled out before he could get his feet back under him. STWs were comparatively new and I bugged him that all you needed to do was break their leg and they were doomed. It was better than listening to him tell me what lousy shot it was.</p><p></p><p> Fast forward a few years and we were hunting separately but on the same military base. By then STWs were standard fare around home but cell phones weren't yet. A call came that I had to get my butt over there and see something. He had shot a running buck and broke its front leg below the knee. There wasn't a drop of blood anywhere in the fresh snow for the 50 yards it ran before dropping dead. I don't know why it was even dead, but I just about wore the deer out looking for another hole. The irony was that by then he was shooting an STW too. I'd loaded the shells myself, 154 gr Interlocks. Magic? Maybe. Weird, yep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azrael, post: 1457123, member: 106296"] I've had a few. One was when a friend and I were shooting our BPCR rifles at my range. I was working on loads while plinking at the full sized bison target I have at 650. The left-overs and rejects got shot off-hand at a gong I have at 220, partly because I need that practice and partly because they aren't good for anything else. Pulling cast bullet loads on compressed black powder just isnt going to happen. On different steel painting trips I found a dead shrew and 13 stripe gopher that were killed by the splatter. Just bad luck for them I guess. A friend and I were deer hunting years back and were pretty much weathered out for the day. It turned ugly and was snowing hard. We were already driving out when I saw a little buck at about 400, quartering toward. He dropped at the shot, and though there may have been a little more kicking and snow flying than normal he was very dead in the time it took to get to him. He was hit just above the hock, had fallen and bled out before he could get his feet back under him. STWs were comparatively new and I bugged him that all you needed to do was break their leg and they were doomed. It was better than listening to him tell me what lousy shot it was. Fast forward a few years and we were hunting separately but on the same military base. By then STWs were standard fare around home but cell phones weren't yet. A call came that I had to get my butt over there and see something. He had shot a running buck and broke its front leg below the knee. There wasn't a drop of blood anywhere in the fresh snow for the 50 yards it ran before dropping dead. I don't know why it was even dead, but I just about wore the deer out looking for another hole. The irony was that by then he was shooting an STW too. I'd loaded the shells myself, 154 gr Interlocks. Magic? Maybe. Weird, yep. [/QUOTE]
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