this nice Axis Buck strolled by last saturday....aside from total bullet failure (HDY 150grain SST) animal was recovered and is now in the freezer.
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Hunting & Fishing Good Axis Buck
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Re: Good Axis Buck
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: zink14</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> aside from total bullet failure (HDY 150grain SST)</div></div>
Um, gonna need some details there.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: zink14</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> aside from total bullet failure (HDY 150grain SST)</div></div>
Re: Good Axis Buck
Bullet entered the animal an inch high and a inch back from the elbow the animal fell and was kicking on the ground. At this point I was stunned, the previous 5 Axis have never just flopped. I pulled my rile down and he got up and ran....
went to the spot where he fell, and there was no blood, no fur, no evidence he was hit....at this point I was left to just walking and looking, never found blood I ended up just walking every game trail I could find in the area, looked for 1 hour and thirty minutes and finely found him, again only by chance.
I dressed the animal and found the both lungs to be moderately damaged and the aorta was perforated and no exit wound....all the blood, every drop was in the chest cavity. The diaphragm was punctured and stomach had a hole in it, and no other evidence of the bullet path, no evidence of the bullet, no exit, no nothing!
So a 150 grain Bullet shot at 2500 fps vaporized when hitting soft tissue...I define failure in a hunting bullet as failure to achieve consistent and predictable results when fired at a game animal, this is the 4th animal I have shot with the sst, and this is a first for the bullet to explode....
in short I shot a trophy animal, with solid shot placement, and almost lost the animal due to bullet performance = bullet fail
Bullet entered the animal an inch high and a inch back from the elbow the animal fell and was kicking on the ground. At this point I was stunned, the previous 5 Axis have never just flopped. I pulled my rile down and he got up and ran....
went to the spot where he fell, and there was no blood, no fur, no evidence he was hit....at this point I was left to just walking and looking, never found blood I ended up just walking every game trail I could find in the area, looked for 1 hour and thirty minutes and finely found him, again only by chance.
I dressed the animal and found the both lungs to be moderately damaged and the aorta was perforated and no exit wound....all the blood, every drop was in the chest cavity. The diaphragm was punctured and stomach had a hole in it, and no other evidence of the bullet path, no evidence of the bullet, no exit, no nothing!
So a 150 grain Bullet shot at 2500 fps vaporized when hitting soft tissue...I define failure in a hunting bullet as failure to achieve consistent and predictable results when fired at a game animal, this is the 4th animal I have shot with the sst, and this is a first for the bullet to explode....
in short I shot a trophy animal, with solid shot placement, and almost lost the animal due to bullet performance = bullet fail
Re: Good Axis Buck
thats to bad, I shot the SST's out of my 243 this year and i killed a buck and my wife killed her buck and they both dropped. to bad the bullet failed glad you found your animal. Does axis meat taste better than WT?
thats to bad, I shot the SST's out of my 243 this year and i killed a buck and my wife killed her buck and they both dropped. to bad the bullet failed glad you found your animal. Does axis meat taste better than WT?
Re: Good Axis Buck
Axis us much better than wt, and I love wt...when hunting for meat I will shoot an axis100% of the time over a white tail
Axis us much better than wt, and I love wt...when hunting for meat I will shoot an axis100% of the time over a white tail
Re: Good Axis Buck
Hey there Zink, our place is over in Barksdale, not too far from you. Lots of axis and auodad on it. One thing I have learned to coach guys on these two types of critters - shoot to hit bone in the front shoulder. Yes, it dinks up some meat, but you will anchor the animal and not lose it. They are very tough and determined, and can run for a long ways with fatal wounds.
Not the first SST failure I have seen or heard about. The bullet seems to work well if not going too fast on impact. Not consistently though, it is very hard to predict. We tested some recently with whitetails, about 10-12 animals, all were DRT within 25 ft, but all shot thru the shoulders. May we assume you were within 150 yards of it, given the velocity you had?
Mikee
Hey there Zink, our place is over in Barksdale, not too far from you. Lots of axis and auodad on it. One thing I have learned to coach guys on these two types of critters - shoot to hit bone in the front shoulder. Yes, it dinks up some meat, but you will anchor the animal and not lose it. They are very tough and determined, and can run for a long ways with fatal wounds.
Not the first SST failure I have seen or heard about. The bullet seems to work well if not going too fast on impact. Not consistently though, it is very hard to predict. We tested some recently with whitetails, about 10-12 animals, all were DRT within 25 ft, but all shot thru the shoulders. May we assume you were within 150 yards of it, given the velocity you had?
Mikee
Re: Good Axis Buck
normally if I have a shoulder shot, I take the shoulder shot as a rule, because tracking is a bitch in my area, I really like the animals to go down fast, unfortunately he had brush in front of his shoulder. I have been hunting with Barnes T-tsx for a couple of years, but the OAL on that load was too long to run in the AR10. Yes he was 128 yards away and SST reminded me why I switched barnes.
normally if I have a shoulder shot, I take the shoulder shot as a rule, because tracking is a bitch in my area, I really like the animals to go down fast, unfortunately he had brush in front of his shoulder. I have been hunting with Barnes T-tsx for a couple of years, but the OAL on that load was too long to run in the AR10. Yes he was 128 yards away and SST reminded me why I switched barnes.
Re: Good Axis Buck
Hey Zink, not sure what caliber you are shooting, but Barnes makes their own ammo brand now, called Vortex. I bought some 150grain TTSX and they seem to shoot great. In my rifles the comeups for these are so close to 175SMKs out to 400, I don't even change the dope card. And they are short enough to shoot in the AR or the OBR.
Plus you get a neat little blue plastic tip!
Hey Zink, not sure what caliber you are shooting, but Barnes makes their own ammo brand now, called Vortex. I bought some 150grain TTSX and they seem to shoot great. In my rifles the comeups for these are so close to 175SMKs out to 400, I don't even change the dope card. And they are short enough to shoot in the AR or the OBR.
Plus you get a neat little blue plastic tip!
