Went trough all my reloading stuff and stumbled upon my first ever recovered bullet from my first ever bushbuck as well. Now I just have to search for that photo.

Thanx to the magnum magazine that I was reading since April 1993 and the articles they had about bullets and hunting I kept this bullet from the bushbuck. The shot was point blank and was a snapshot neither the bushbuck or me knew abot each other he was on the other side of a thick bush. He ran a short stretch to have a look at what frightened him and stood looking back over his back looking at me at 18 meters.

I knew I had to shoot now or the chance would be blown forgetting about the scope being higher than the barrel I aimed for the part where the neck meets the body while he was standing looking at me over his back. The shot went off and he dropped like a sack of potatoes. However the bit of difference between the height of the scope and the barrel has let the bullet hit him just left of his spine about 4 inches from where his tail starts. The bullet penetrated all the way to the lungs from there and no major bones where hit. The only vital area hit was the lungs but he went down fast very fast stone dead. I suppose at point blank range the .303 and 174 gr bullets carry quite a whallop.

Well heres the bullet a stupid old 174gr PMP soft but it worked and worked like a charm.

The only animal I shot with mentioned bullet was in Namibia 1995, I was shooting borrowed 300 WM - Oryx was shot at 300m quartering from behind (entry wound at paunch was 3 inches long - bullet made a jelly stuff in the breast cavity) - after shot, oryx took off and made some 100 meters before colapsing. Bullet didn't exit but we didn't find it either.

Mouse,

Was it Pro Amm ammunition from PMP?
If it was they are slightly betetr than the plain PMP but at .300 velocities they actually dont really stand a chance but witha 300 yard shot they should have worked just fine.

Interesting on the entry wound of the oryx.

Huh - nag me - I can't remember most of the time i was hunting with (also borrowed) 7 mm RM shooting RWS TIG, but I do remember the tag on the box that was something like this (not sure but there might be a pic of impala on it as well ?):




Yup the entry was that long because of the acute angle (one of my best shots I have ever made).

The bad bullet days were in the 1940s to 1960's or there abouts...Lots of failures, and Roy Weatherby contributed greatly to that with his hi vel calibers...

About the only bullet that worked pre Nosler was the good old Rem. Corelokt Round Nose and it still works...great bullet.

Bullets have gotten really good in the last 10 or 15 years, kudos to the bullet makers of today..

Thinking back, the killingest bullet I ever used on Deer was the old Winchester Western Open POint Expanding bullet in the 130 gr. .270 Win. caliber, it always shead its lead and dropped deer like a bolt of lightening hit them..

I have shot a lot of game with the old Kynoch soft nose ammo using a .375H&H double, they would always breakup pretty badly. Infact on one panther the bullet didnt even go through the neck, shot at about 15 feet!

I've pretty much gone off the PMP bullets. Too many failures with not enough justification, I suppose.

One glaring exception was the ORIGINAL 300gr .375. Now that was a bullet! I got so cocksure of straight-line penetration and yards of it, that I didn't notice them changing the spec for a much thinner jacket. Catastrophic, as I found to my chagrin (and cost). One wonders why they changed a formula that worked, and I guess the same goes for a lot of their other bullets.

Nowadays I just use Rhino's and I don't think I'll ever look back.