Had a good hunting weekend - I am very blessed to have been invited to hunt in some high fenced property last weekend. The 6.5 Creedmoor was up to the task and was as accurate as my hold was.
140g Nosler Ballistic Tips in front of RL16 @ 2800 FPS were the load of choice.
I shot a beautiful make Blackbuck antelope standing broadside at about 230 yards, the bullet passed thru both shoulders with both lungs devastated. The speed goat was DRT and only kicked a back leg time or two before expiring.
A whitetail doe at about 180 yards went down later that afternoon. Same shot, same effect as the little black speeder. Still no bullet recovered. I was beginning to be concerned about the NBT ice picking it’s way thru the animal without enough expansion.
Just before dark, 3 red deer ( European Elk ) came into view, I picked out what looked to be the cow. The laser read 218 yards, so I dialed up and sent the NBT to do what they do best.
The first shot impacted the back part of the front shoulder and took out both lungs. The animal was still on its feet, so a second shot impacted at the back of the rib cage. I was ready to send another, when the guy I was in the pod with stopped me saying “She’s dead, her front legs are locked”
By this time it was too dark to send anymore bullets down range, so we gathered up our gear and headed for the truck. There is a road about 40 yard from the edge of the greenfield the animals were in so we drove around to gather up the animals.
As we got close to the field, we could see the red deer. Loaded it up then went and got the whitetail.
Red deer are some smelly beasts !!!
The wound channel for both bullets in the red deer were pretty impressive and we recovered the bullet from the first shot just under the hide on the off side shoulder. Our conclusion is that the NBT is doing a good job but for the bigger red deer a partition bullet would probably be a better choice.
Blackbuck Antelope
140 g Nosler Ballistic Tip after meeting a Red Deer at 218 yards
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