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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 1251789" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>Folks, We have an answer. Found the deer floating yesterday. It was hit within an inch of where I was holding. Evidently it was just shy of broadside, or had its left leg back. It was standing in knee high grass at the edge of the beanfield. . Bullet went in at the front point of the shoulder. Exited just forward of shoulder blade on other side. Golf ball exit. Didn't open it up, it was stinking pretty bad. Been 85 deg here. Had to have pieces of shoulder bone tear up the lungs. Frag bullet likely would have anchored it. I'll just have to be more careful the rest of the season. No more of these for me. Rather lose the meat. Reality is shot was a about 3-4" in front of optimal. Made a mistake giving myself a little cushion for wind, that wasn't needed. This is the first deer I have shot with this bullet. Same hit with an SST from my 7mm, or the RUM would have ruined both shoulders. While the Scirocco's may be great bullets, and meat savers, every shot isn't perfect. Everything would be fine if not for the water. Everything is flooded. Deer only went about 50yds. Some folks would say not to shoot so far under these conditions, and they may be right, but would seldom kill a deer on our place. This field is a little over 900yds, and it is not our biggest one. It also would have been nice if the deer had gone further out in the field, but it was getting dark, and there was no time. Hate it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out. We did kill another doe and an 8pt without incident, with frag bullets. the 8pt was hit in the liver at a little over 300 yds and died on the spot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 1251789, member: 92702"] Folks, We have an answer. Found the deer floating yesterday. It was hit within an inch of where I was holding. Evidently it was just shy of broadside, or had its left leg back. It was standing in knee high grass at the edge of the beanfield. . Bullet went in at the front point of the shoulder. Exited just forward of shoulder blade on other side. Golf ball exit. Didn't open it up, it was stinking pretty bad. Been 85 deg here. Had to have pieces of shoulder bone tear up the lungs. Frag bullet likely would have anchored it. I'll just have to be more careful the rest of the season. No more of these for me. Rather lose the meat. Reality is shot was a about 3-4" in front of optimal. Made a mistake giving myself a little cushion for wind, that wasn't needed. This is the first deer I have shot with this bullet. Same hit with an SST from my 7mm, or the RUM would have ruined both shoulders. While the Scirocco's may be great bullets, and meat savers, every shot isn't perfect. Everything would be fine if not for the water. Everything is flooded. Deer only went about 50yds. Some folks would say not to shoot so far under these conditions, and they may be right, but would seldom kill a deer on our place. This field is a little over 900yds, and it is not our biggest one. It also would have been nice if the deer had gone further out in the field, but it was getting dark, and there was no time. Hate it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out. We did kill another doe and an 8pt without incident, with frag bullets. the 8pt was hit in the liver at a little over 300 yds and died on the spot. [/QUOTE]
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