by plant_one » Thu Nov 26, 2020 7:07 pm
did it go in thru a shoulder or what?
we've killed .... i wanna say 8 or 9 now with the 450s in our hunting group and every one of the 250 ftx came out - 3 of the 5 bucks taken this year opening weekend were with the 250 ftx. we did find one jacket last year still under the skin, exit wound side, but with kills from 30-160 yds every bullet we've fired (there's 4 of them that get used on my family's property) in a mix of 18 & 20" barrels, all factory ammo (black and custom)
we finally did have a 1 hole wonder this year - and our first bullet recovery - on my brothers 30-06 of all things. Nosler Partition 180gr Protected point (#25396). went in through the shoulder, jelly'ed everything behind it, smashed a rib and was right under the skin on what should have been the exit side (kind of a quartering towards him shot).
whole front core was gone, rear core was perfectly in tact, jacket appeared to be still mostly intact, just rolled back like you'd expect. dunno how it managed to stay inside. deer went down like a sack of potatoes kicked off a tailgate though, we figure the shock from the shoulder blowing up also got into the spine and just hit the off switch.