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Beartooth 290 gr. LFNGC

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#1 ·
The first deer taken with this bullet was not as expected. It is not fair to judge performance because I did not do the autopsy. I wish I had. I asked the processor to give me a report and he remembered very little. All he could say was I lost one whole shoulder. When I told him I was expecting to eat right up to the hole in that shoulder he said that since the deer did not go down immediately and ran some 50 yds with a broke shoulder, that the bone and bone fragments could have destroyed the shoulder as he ran.

The facts are:

The deer ran 50 yds after being struck behind the right shoulder taking out both lungs and exiting the left shoulder. He did not limp or stagger as he moved away and up hill. If I had shot him after the leaves fell he would have never left my sight.

I promise to do the dirty work on the next one.
 

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#2 ·
Hey Chief, thanks for the update.


I too popped a deer this year in the shoulder, thought it was down for the count, and upon seeing me,it jumped up and ran 50 feet (under 20 yards) before expiring for good. I also lost most of a shoulder due to bloodshot on this one, and entirely due to the massive amount of shattered bone shards. This is the first time in many, many years that I've lost more than a small handful of meat due to bloodshot from a cast bullet harvest.

It is comforting when they pile up within sight!

Keep on huntin' Chief, my season's over.

God bless,
 
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Chief... No telling what caused it really. I shoot them with Marshall's boolits (this specific boolit mentioned) and my boolits and most of the time you can eat up to the hole. The buck deer I just shot with my 444 Marlin boolit was a mess. It struck the lower rib cage and the brisket was a mess on both sides. Just a bloody mess, yet it didn't leave one drop of blood on the ground or hip high grass. It ran about 20 years after having it's heart pulverized and could have been hard to find. I entered the brush it hit after the shot and found it with a flash light by seeing it's antlers. I've been wondering if it had something to do with me slowing my load down a bit.
 
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Hit the shoulder bone and all bets are off, with regards to meat damage. Bone fragments for sure can make a big mess.

Also.... sometimes meat that looks REALLY bloodshot isn't. It's just a thin layer trapped under the membranes..... most of the time, a soak in salt water overnight will do wonders for 'bloodshot' meat.

I'm sure the butcher just trimmed out anything that looked bloody and obviously didn't have time to dig into the wound ballistics too deeply.

Just another advantage of doing home butchering. I rarely throw bloodshot meat away in the field, unless it is just obviously hamburger. My dogs will eat whatever doesn't clean up after a soak.
 
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