Cutting Edge damage on game

[B-LOT Banga]

So I was blessed to have had the opportunity to go on a hunt with my kids this past weekend. I currently have a condition that limits me from walking around much especially at 9,500 ft elevation here in Hawaii. So I basically have to drive and shoot from the road. I used my browning x bolt in 7mm RM with a 145 grain cutting edge MTH. I was surprised of the amount of damage it produced at 781 yds with a muzzle velocity of 3,020 FPS not a fast but an accurate load. No copper was found on a 160 lb ram breaking both shoulder blades bruising a lot of meat for a all copper bullet. It's the longest kill I made with a all copper bullet and I'm definitely surprised and very happy with its performance. Taking away all negative doubts I had with copper bullets. Any hoo I just wanted to share my experience, any of you folks have similar results with these cutting edge MTH bullets? Pic is of the exit wound... the other is a pic of an ugly Hawaiian with a beautiful Hawaiian ram.
Aloha!!

 

[twister]

nice work! nice to see another copper bullet getting it done.

 

[Bravo 4]

Congrats on your hunt!
I would expect a lot of damage if busting through both shoulders with just about any bullet. Just don't expect that much damage with behind the shoulder shots with the MTH. If I use them again my intended shot placement will be as yours was.

 

[rgvt4]

nice mouflon sheep. Im from maui cool looking sheep congrats

 

[bigngreen]

I've had som of the poorest performance I've seen from CEs, shot a few elk from 300-900 yards, wolf a few deer and coyotes. Wound channels were so small and just blew through, had to dispatch the elk and deer even shot through the shoulders, not enough damage to kill fast, shot super well though!

 

[JIsbell40]

Hey it's the actual LR mono. Despite having a very similar design to Hammers. One flies similar to a VLD. The other flies similar to a trash can. You be the judge.

 

[North Idaho Hunter]

ive seen this kind of bleeding with barnes LRX as well. I believe its just coagulated blood making its way from inside the chest cavity to in between hide and meat.

most of the time it can be scraped off with a knife.

 

[bigngreen]

Hey it's the actual LR mono. Despite having a very similar design to Hammers. One flies similar to a VLD. The other flies similar to a trash can. You be the judge.

At least the Hammer opens and creates a wound channel at the ranges the CEs just put a hole through.
Just my experience from actually putting them both through a bunch of game, no comparison on game!
The only design similarity is they are copper but they are not the same alloy of copper, the rest of the bullet is completely different as well, hole depth driving bands pretty much everything, have you even seen those two bullets side by side?

 

[Westernhuntr]

That's awesome man
I love the "Shaka brah"
I'm currently working up loads with 225 and 252 MTH bullets in my 338 Norma mag.
I've had some terrible results with Berger's blowing apart prematurely and am looking to use a bullet that'll take out an elk shoulder.
Looks like yours did a number on that ram!
Nice work

 

[JIsbell40]

At least the Hammer opens and creates a wound channel at the ranges the CEs just put a hole through.
Just my experience from actually putting them both through a bunch of game, no comparison on game!
The only design similarity is they are copper but they are not the same alloy of copper, the rest of the bullet is completely different as well, hole depth driving bands pretty much everything, have you even seen those two bullets side by side?

Yep that's what I'd say too if I endorsed bullets that fly like a trash can. You can't refute the sketchy at best external ballistics soooooo just talk about something else. I guess the OP made that shot @ 781 yards with something else right? Because CE don't expand. The Internet gods have spoken?

 

[IHFarmer07]

I'm really considering Cutting Edge bullets for hunting whitetails. Between the Barnes or the Cutting Edge, idk, depends on the money situation, building a house and our first baby coming in the same time frame.

If you go to YouTube and look up Barber Creek Shooting School, they tested the Cutting Edge Lazers and they performed excellent according to their ballistic gel tests.

 

[GW Hunter]

All I see is the result of a nice shot...

 

[bigngreen]

A lot of on side jello blood shot means the animal was alive for a while, the blood is pumped through the wound and into the layers under the hide, super easy to just seam out with little meat loss.

 

[JIsbell40]

Oh my Gosh! I've shot deer at 80 yards with a 210 berger impact velocity 3160 FPS and it looks eerily similar to the OPs damage? Too bad my deer didn't know it was supposed to be alive a while to have that kinda damage. Bang flop with mine... shucks I must be doing this whole deer hunting thing wrong