I have already posted this in the AR rifle thread but wanted to put up a full AAR.
I was hunting on Thanksgiving morning when this guy rolled in behind my stand. He was about 60 yards away heading at an angle down toward me. I thought he already winded me, so I took the first good shot that I had through the trees. I hit him with my freshly built 6.8 SPC with a Trijicon ACOG TA01 on top with Silver State Armory's Sierra 110gr ProHunter normal load. Shot was to the base of the neck on his right side. It dropped him exactly where I shot him. He fell like nothing I have ever seen, he just plumeted down like someone flipped his lightswitch. It was amazing.
When I got to him I finally realized his size. I was a little confused as there was no bullet exit. His neck was pretty big but I expected it to exit? When my buddy and I finally got him out and back to my home, we skinned him out and dropped him off at my local shop for mount work.
Two days of hanging and it was starting to warm up so I decided to butcher him out early. After taking off the right shoulder, I moved to the left and there and then.. Wow.. lots of blood. After I seperated the shoulder, I was able to look in and noticed a clear 2" hole in his left shoulder from the neck/chest. I opened it up there and noticed that the bullet had shattered the first rib at the spine. Going back to the shoulder, the bullet then shattered the femur at the ball and bullet fragments were found in the shoulder blade. My buddy had thought that the front left leg was weird when we were bringing him out but we didn't think about it again.
Here are the bullet fragments that I recovered. Original bullet weight was 110 gr. recovered weight was 72.2 gr. I am sure that there were more in there, but it was a mess and I didn't want to funk up my handheld metal detector that I use for woodworking.
I am pleased with the results and happy it was a fast and clean kill. My buddy also hunts with a 6.8 and his doe last week was another quick clean kill.
This is also my first buck. I have watched a bunch walk by as the landowner's rule is does anytime, but bucks must be something you would mount. I think I did okay this time.
Talked to my shop today and he was 7.5 years old. Amazing...
I was hunting on Thanksgiving morning when this guy rolled in behind my stand. He was about 60 yards away heading at an angle down toward me. I thought he already winded me, so I took the first good shot that I had through the trees. I hit him with my freshly built 6.8 SPC with a Trijicon ACOG TA01 on top with Silver State Armory's Sierra 110gr ProHunter normal load. Shot was to the base of the neck on his right side. It dropped him exactly where I shot him. He fell like nothing I have ever seen, he just plumeted down like someone flipped his lightswitch. It was amazing.
When I got to him I finally realized his size. I was a little confused as there was no bullet exit. His neck was pretty big but I expected it to exit? When my buddy and I finally got him out and back to my home, we skinned him out and dropped him off at my local shop for mount work.
Two days of hanging and it was starting to warm up so I decided to butcher him out early. After taking off the right shoulder, I moved to the left and there and then.. Wow.. lots of blood. After I seperated the shoulder, I was able to look in and noticed a clear 2" hole in his left shoulder from the neck/chest. I opened it up there and noticed that the bullet had shattered the first rib at the spine. Going back to the shoulder, the bullet then shattered the femur at the ball and bullet fragments were found in the shoulder blade. My buddy had thought that the front left leg was weird when we were bringing him out but we didn't think about it again.
Here are the bullet fragments that I recovered. Original bullet weight was 110 gr. recovered weight was 72.2 gr. I am sure that there were more in there, but it was a mess and I didn't want to funk up my handheld metal detector that I use for woodworking.
I am pleased with the results and happy it was a fast and clean kill. My buddy also hunts with a 6.8 and his doe last week was another quick clean kill.
This is also my first buck. I have watched a bunch walk by as the landowner's rule is does anytime, but bucks must be something you would mount. I think I did okay this time.
Talked to my shop today and he was 7.5 years old. Amazing...