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<blockquote data-quote="selmerfan" data-source="post: 2686387" data-attributes="member: 125297"><p>I don't have photos, but the strangest story I have was from West River, SD country hunting mule deer. We were heading back to the ranch with a couple of deer in the pickup when the rancher's grandson (about 16 at the time) pulled up and wanted help going after a big whitetail buck he had shot and wounded. We spotted him at about a half mile off and could see a huge blood spot on the shoulder where he had hit him with a .243 Win and the bullet splashed on the shoulder blade. He took off up a drainage that split into two smaller drainages farther up, both of which were dammed off for stock dams. I took one and the grandson took the other. I slowly stalked up over the dam bank, expecting to see the deer getting water because he was wounded and had been running for a couple of miles by then. I was lying prone, just high enough to see over the dam. I looked all over the edge and saw nothing. Then I saw a rack and a nose slowly rise up out of the water to get air, about ten feet off the shore. I laid there until the buck exposed his entire head and base of the neck. Then I ended the hunt with a shot to the atlas joint. He was laying in about four feet of water, belly on the bottom and legs splayed out. We got awfully muddy getting a rope around the antlers to drag him out. There was a fist-size hole in the shoulder and no penetration to the rib cage from the .243 Win round. I asked him what he was shooting. "55 gr. Nosler Ballistic tip. They go really fast." Ugh. His grandpa turned to my dad and said, "Doesn't Sally (my mom) use a .243? She never has a problem. What do you load in it?" "A 100 gr. Nosler Partition." "Tanner, keep those little bullets for coyotes and use 100 gr. whatever kind of bullet Fred said next time."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="selmerfan, post: 2686387, member: 125297"] I don't have photos, but the strangest story I have was from West River, SD country hunting mule deer. We were heading back to the ranch with a couple of deer in the pickup when the rancher's grandson (about 16 at the time) pulled up and wanted help going after a big whitetail buck he had shot and wounded. We spotted him at about a half mile off and could see a huge blood spot on the shoulder where he had hit him with a .243 Win and the bullet splashed on the shoulder blade. He took off up a drainage that split into two smaller drainages farther up, both of which were dammed off for stock dams. I took one and the grandson took the other. I slowly stalked up over the dam bank, expecting to see the deer getting water because he was wounded and had been running for a couple of miles by then. I was lying prone, just high enough to see over the dam. I looked all over the edge and saw nothing. Then I saw a rack and a nose slowly rise up out of the water to get air, about ten feet off the shore. I laid there until the buck exposed his entire head and base of the neck. Then I ended the hunt with a shot to the atlas joint. He was laying in about four feet of water, belly on the bottom and legs splayed out. We got awfully muddy getting a rope around the antlers to drag him out. There was a fist-size hole in the shoulder and no penetration to the rib cage from the .243 Win round. I asked him what he was shooting. "55 gr. Nosler Ballistic tip. They go really fast." Ugh. His grandpa turned to my dad and said, "Doesn't Sally (my mom) use a .243? She never has a problem. What do you load in it?" "A 100 gr. Nosler Partition." "Tanner, keep those little bullets for coyotes and use 100 gr. whatever kind of bullet Fred said next time." [/QUOTE]
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