Hammer hunt

[Satch6.5]

My first hammer harvest, 6.5 creed with 124 hammer hunter. Quartering to me at 55 yards. Dropped in his tracks, very impressed with these bullets!

 

[Rick Richard]

Very nice and congrats. I shoot the HH 110 out of my 6.5 X 47 and they work very well too.

 

[Zen Archery]

That's an awesome deer my dude! Congrats and Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 

[Varmint Hunter]

Very impressive for a Creed. Congrats!

 

[Satch6.5]

Thank you and happy turkey day!

 

[dogz]

My first hammer harvest, 6.5 creed with 124 hammer hunter. Quartering to me at 55 yards. Dropped in his tracks, very impressed with these bullets!

Nice buck! Did the bullet clip the spine?

 

[Satch6.5]

It entered the shoulder blade and fragmented into the lungs and the bottom of the spine. I always shoot center to top of the blade. He was quartering and it exited the back opposite rib cage.

 

[Satch6.5]

It entered the shoulder blade and fragmented into the lungs and the bottom of the spine. I always shoot center to top of the blade. He was quartering and it exited the back opposite rib cage.

 

[dogz]

great, placement like that will put them down right now!

 

[Satch6.5]

I did find some copper fragments in the back straps. But, I was impressed the bullet performance. I have always shot lead cup and core which has served me well. I also have shot some barnes tsx, but never found the bullets.

 

[dogz]

yep the Barnes will generally blow off their front 4 petals and the rear wadcutter part will exit. Pretty much same with the Hammer bullet.

 

[Varmint Hunter]

yep the Barnes will generally blow off their front 4 petals and the rear wadcutter part will exit. Pretty much same with the Hammer bullet.

It's hard to say what the Barnes bullets do because you rarely catch one. I did catch a 300gr TSX .458" bullet in a large black bear. It lost only one petal after penetrating a significant amount of bone. The remaining petals were all folded back to the shank, or nearly so. I tried to bend a petal back with a needle nosed pliers and could not move it. It's amazing that the petals fold back at all but they do seem to do so reliably.

 

[littlebighorn]

Great buck Satch!
What powder is behind those 124s?

 

[brentru]

Nice buck!