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Setup: 6.5 Grendel Howa Mini Heavy Barrel, shooting suppressed. 123 Gr Hornady SST with a MV of 2495 FPS. All shots taken broadside, within 50 yards. Total time between shot 1 and 4 was maybe 3 minutes.
Here's the short story. Still hunting in November and walked up within 50 yards of this bad boy in heavy woods. He was with 2 does and was about to jump the fence off of our property. First shot was forced through light brush, zero reaction from all 3 deer. That was wierd. He turns back to stay on our property and walks on a bit, I get a second shot, zero reaction from any deer. What the hell! He takes a few more steps, and I put another in him. This time he bucks a bit and takes 5 steps or so, but still just standing like no big deal. He turns to face the other way and I put another in him. This time he jogs off away from me and out of sight. I'm completely at a loss as to what is happening and pretty sure he just ran off into the sunset. I give it a few minutes and find him dead 30 yards down the trail. Here is what I found...
Shot 1: broke up in the brush and 1 small fragment barely entered the shoulder. It was a bad shot I shouldn't have taken through the brush, but he was about to go out of bounds.
Shot 2: entered just behind the left shoulder, and bullet found under the skin on the far side, flattened out.
Shot 3: entered just behind right shoulder and exited same spot on the left side, leaving about 1.5" hole.
Shot 4: entered a bit high just behind left shoulder and exited the right shoulder, leaving another 1.5" exit.
SO, the bullet performed pretty much as it should have, but wow was that a tough deer. I've never had to make more than 1 shot on a whitetail like that before. I only had 1 round left. I have no doubt that without that suppressor he would have been long gone and I'd feel like a real a-hole.
Hard to tell from the pics, but the rack was super heavy. 5" circumference at the base and only tapered off to 4" at H4
Here's the short story. Still hunting in November and walked up within 50 yards of this bad boy in heavy woods. He was with 2 does and was about to jump the fence off of our property. First shot was forced through light brush, zero reaction from all 3 deer. That was wierd. He turns back to stay on our property and walks on a bit, I get a second shot, zero reaction from any deer. What the hell! He takes a few more steps, and I put another in him. This time he bucks a bit and takes 5 steps or so, but still just standing like no big deal. He turns to face the other way and I put another in him. This time he jogs off away from me and out of sight. I'm completely at a loss as to what is happening and pretty sure he just ran off into the sunset. I give it a few minutes and find him dead 30 yards down the trail. Here is what I found...
Shot 1: broke up in the brush and 1 small fragment barely entered the shoulder. It was a bad shot I shouldn't have taken through the brush, but he was about to go out of bounds.
Shot 2: entered just behind the left shoulder, and bullet found under the skin on the far side, flattened out.
Shot 3: entered just behind right shoulder and exited same spot on the left side, leaving about 1.5" hole.
Shot 4: entered a bit high just behind left shoulder and exited the right shoulder, leaving another 1.5" exit.
SO, the bullet performed pretty much as it should have, but wow was that a tough deer. I've never had to make more than 1 shot on a whitetail like that before. I only had 1 round left. I have no doubt that without that suppressor he would have been long gone and I'd feel like a real a-hole.
Hard to tell from the pics, but the rack was super heavy. 5" circumference at the base and only tapered off to 4" at H4
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