When I go forward to the deer I've just shot I generaly first look at the entry wound, second the exit wound and third search for where the bullet hit the backstop.
How often do you find that the bullet has made a long skid mark indicating it has hit the ground but carried on? How far do you reckon it goes and does it worry you?
Posts: 2258 | Location: Bristol, England | Registered: 24 April 2001
quote:Originally posted by 1894: When I go forward to the deer I've just shot I generaly first look at the entry wound, second the exit wound and third search for where the bullet hit the backstop.
How often do you find that the bullet has made a long skid mark indicating it has hit the ground but carried on? How far do you reckon it goes and does it worry you?
1894,
I suppose you mean skidmarks after the bullet have penetrated the game. My first roe buck was shot from a stand at very close range, abot 5-8 yards. I found a skidmark in the moss and followed it to a rotten tree root, where I found the empty jacket. It was my first and last shot at game with the Norma Vulcan. It had separated at the hit in the buck. Which, however, died without hesitation.
When you shoot at game at ground when it�s snow, you can see the traces - or skidmarks - of the shots in the snow. But that�s not the matter here, I think.
Best regards,
Fritz
[ 06-07-2002, 23:44: Message edited by: Fritz Kraut ]
Posts: 846 | Location: Sweden | Registered: 19 April 2001
This post was not what I thought it would be about
I have encountered the same thing, especially with 45/70 projectiles they seem to skim more than other calibres I own actually. I would like to think that most of the energy has expended by the time it goes through the game and then hits the ground, but I still would not want to be behind it.
Posts: 7505 | Location: Australia | Registered: 22 May 2002
I shot a fallow deer at a measured 342 yards with the 416 Rigby and a 350 grain X Bullet. My buddy was video taping. I have the tape. He was zoomed in to maximum useful magnification.
When the bullet hit, low in the chest, a flourish of deer intestines popped out of the deer's abdomen, and then two puffs of dust were seen about 100 and 200 yards sequentially in a straight line beyond the deer as the bullet skipped across the plain and on into the timber.
Those were "skid marks!", but I did not go looking for them.
The bullet skipped like a stone upon a pond, and I saw it as I lowered my gun from recoil. The video tape confirmed it.
Posts: 28032 | Location: KY | Registered: 09 December 2001
While the first few posts where amussing. This subject is why we should all ways check our back stop. To many people think that thats only for if you miss, but the truth is more often then not a bullet will acheive full penitration, and once it has it is still a deadly force to be reaconed with. I have never seen the skid marks left by one of my bullets after hitting game, but I'm sure they are out there. I have shot X bullets for years and the vast number of them go all the way through. X-Ring
I spent a good part of this winter shooting 55 gr ballistic tips out of my 6ppc, at about 3400 fps. At 100 yards, there was a slight rise behind my target, and the bullets were making an interesting trail in the snow. There'd be a furrow for about 6 feet, and then scrapnel. I picked up four or five tips, and a bunch of pieces of core and jacket.
A solid or heavy bullet may skip, but I'm not worried about a 55 gr b-tip...... Still, backstops are not optional. FWIW, Dutch.
Posts: 4564 | Location: Idaho Falls, ID, USA | Registered: 21 September 2000
And all this time I thought "skid marks" were exactly that in muddy areas caused by bucks mounting does! Really, thats what we call them... She stands still, and he moves her...oh baby, you move me... Chuck
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