Sweet redemption!

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Sweet redemption!

Postby MOUNTIN DU » Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:01 pm

:shock: after a 145yd botched shot :oops: removed a horn from the last deer i shot with my 450bm, :? and a month of waiting... :roll: redemption is finally mine! :D the 250gr FTX found it's mark perfectly after a 205yd trek from my stand to the deer, right where my 200yd reticle was resting.

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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby Ghost Dog » Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:14 pm

GOOD SHOW !!!
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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby B swift » Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:17 pm

SWEET! Way to harvest your game! :)
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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby bushmeister » Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:05 pm

Way to go DU!! So how do you feel about the terminal ballistics?
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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby MOUNTIN DU » Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:07 pm

:) with three kills so far, this was my first real test of the 250ftx :? two of the previous kills were a head shot at 45yds and a high neck shot at 90yds. :| oh... and that horn from last month :lol: i'm impressed with how little tissue damage there is. this shot entered low between two ribs and exited between two ribs cutting the heart. neither side showing any bloodshot tissue. :shock: a quick csi of the wound channel showed significant expansion though in the lungs and a promonate blood stream that followed the bullet as it exited. :) result was a 40yd death run and both horns recovered ;) :lol:

p.s. :| if you remember the shot i flubbed last year on a nice 8pt at 60yds :roll: and then questioned the possibility of a pass thru with no expansion :shock: is a myth. i obviously missed that shot clean. :oops:
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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby MudBug » Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:49 pm

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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby Jeepejeep » Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:18 pm

Congrats!
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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby MOUNTIN DU » Mon Jan 21, 2013 4:31 pm

:) well that ends the "modern" weapons (450bm) season for me :? with just a horn and an 8pt :| but it was a great season in all. a healthy deer herd at or near capacity means more culling next year ;) i still have till jan.31 to get another with my other favorite primative rifle... the 45-70! ;)
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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby Texas Sheepdawg » Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:16 pm

Good looking buck. Congrats!
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Re: Sweet redemption!

Postby helidude350 » Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:53 am

Those are some great photos.



Are you hiding the webbed feet on purpose? ;)
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