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Berger VLD 7mm 180 gr. close up kill. #5473445 12/12/14 09:30 PM
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I came out here prepared for 1000 yards and made a shot on the buck at freakin 40 yards. I hit him high in the lungs. Exit wound was about 1 1/2". He ran 100 yards and I watched him fall. Here's exactly what I found when I got to him, massive blood loss. When I rolled him onto his back the same amount of blood in the pic poured out of the exit side. I had to drag him five yards so I wouldn't be wading in blood. Elk, whitetail, javelena, and now Mulie buck and the bullet is batting a thousand. Lung on the ground, and lung fragments in the ribcage.




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Re: Berger VLD 7mm 180 gr. close up kill. [Re: J.G.] #5473455 12/12/14 09:38 PM
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Jacked him up..good job


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What teet was he drinking milk from when you gut shot him? bolt

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Any pictures of the exit?

Call me picky, but I want a trackable blood trail without complete annihilation...


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That Did a number on him. What was muzzle velocity?
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Pm me your phone red chevy and I will show you a 125 yards normal shot with a 130 gr 6.5

It has an excellent blood trail for the 10 feet

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Originally Posted By: redchevy
Any pictures of the exit?

Call me picky, but I want a trackable blood trail without complete annihilation...


Really. I mean really you're gonna talk smack about that much dead. I never looked for a trail because I hit him, I watched him run, I watched him fall and it was over. Annihilation of his lungs, nothing else. There's no pleasing some people


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Originally Posted By: jeh7mmmag
That Did a number on him. What was muzzle velocity?
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MV is 3080 fps.


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Was he nursing when you pulled the trigger, or did you let him finish?


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Two spikes were killed this week too. Out of five deer killed I have second largets. So yall that are sitting at home critisizing can pound sand.


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Hunting VLD or hybrid? Nice trauma btw.


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wanna see a head shot on a hog..

do you normally want the bullet placement behind the shoulder or do you go high to go after the spine? always wanted to try spine shots esp with the 300 win mag in 208 or 230 bergers

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Behind the shoulder, looking for lungs. No ruined shoulder meat, ruined lungs, hypovolemia. Seems to work just fine


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Originally Posted By: FiremanJG
Behind the shoulder, looking for lungs. No ruined shoulder meat, ruined lungs, hypovolemia. Seems to work just fine



I would say that's one you can count on!! good job


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Any pictures of the exit?

Call me picky, but I want a trackable blood trail without complete annihilation...


Really. I mean really you're gonna talk smack about that much dead. I never looked for a trail because I hit him, I watched him run, I watched him fall and it was over. Annihilation of his lungs, nothing else. There's no pleasing some people


No smack. Your happy with it then that's great. Exits wounds I could drop a cantelope into are the reason why I no longer use ballistic tips, hornacy interlocks and most other soft point cup and core bullets. Short range and 3000+ fps more often than not yields a blood bath. I don't want a blood bath.


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First post says "exit wound was 1 1/2"

I know you can read a tape and know what diameter means.


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In all honesty I missed the bit about the 1.5 inch exit. hammer

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Now it makes sense.


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Well, for me he ain't quite dead enough grin

Nice shot Fireman...as you know sometimes the close ones can be harder than the longer ones. Congrats bud, it's meat in the freezer.


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Originally Posted By: FiremanJG
I came out here prepared for 1000 yards and made a shot on the buck at freakin 40 yards.


Hahah, isn't that always how its goes??? Something happens to mess up the plan.

Good shooting! I love those Berger bullets too, accurate and deadly.

Thanks for posting, pushing that bullet 3080 fps and hitting at only 40 yards would make one think the bullet would just disintegrate on the deer. That didn't happen though, definitely did its job and exited. Seeing posts like this influenced me to try Bergers and now their all I use.

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I tell my kids "you learn something on every hunt". This was just another lesson, happened to be about bullet performance.


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Originally Posted By: FiremanJG
Two spikes were killed this week too. Out of five deer killed I have second largets. So yall that are sitting at home critisizing can pound sand.


They're just jealous that YOU were doing the hunting while they were stuck online! Good on ya, Fireman!


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