Took this Fl/Ga Border Buck Saturday. My second largest ever 141 B&C. One shot from my 7mm08, 140 TSX on the shoulder, clipped lungs and section of spine, exited 3rd rib back. Went 3 feet straight down!



Best part #1: Shot him out of my brothers new stand we just set up last weekend. Bro decided to duck hunt Saturday instead of deer hunting, I told him he should go sit in his new stand.



Best part #2: My two best frinds (heated friendly rivalry concerning deer hunting) both shot 139 B&C bucks over the weekend. They could not believe it when I pulled up with mine PRICELESS!

Where in south Georgia do you hunt?

In Grady County, south of Cairo and west of Thomasville.

Congrats. Couldn't see picture though. Site told me to sign in.

will you post the picture itself?

I'm having problems trying to post the picture, can you tell me how to do that? Thanks.

Sure. Here's what I do.

After a digital photo is loaded from my camera to my computer and saved in 'my pictures', I go to imagestation.com and 'upload' that image. Once it is uploaded onto that site it is saved in an album. Click on the thumbnail image that is uploaded and it will be larger.

On the larger picture, right click it and go to properties. Highlight the url address with the left mouse button (hold down and drag across it to highlight the whole address). Then right click it and copy it.

Come back to AR and under this box (post), click Image. Go to the address in the Image box and right click. The left click on paste.

Then click OK. You can preview this before it is posted. What you will see under the initial post is the url address, but when you preview it, you'll see the image.

PM me if you cannot do it.

Got it....thanks for the help DOC.

The Triple Shock bullet has not disapointed me at all this year. Four shots, four kills.....none went further than 50 yards after the shot. The fact that this is the most accurate bullet in my gun is just icing on the cake!

Congratulations on a fine Deer.

Sounds like those TSX Bullets are indeed doing just fine for you. Any recovered or all Exits? (I'll guess Exits.)

Great mental picture of the initial look on your brothers face when you told him. Probably lots of head shaking and muttering, then a BIG ole congrats!

Floridabigfish, that is great. Taking a trophy is always sweet, but it's great when there is a little ironic twist to add to the spice! Your buddies with the bucks @ 139 zone had to cringe when you showed up, I love it! Did you see many snakes? I used to run a project near Thomasville and in that damn sand soil there were some whopper rattlers. Hope they are absent from ya'lls ground.
Congrats--D.

Thanks.



There are snakes in my area, I was walking some firebreaks last week looking for sign and walked up on a big gopher turtle hole that was freshly dug. Just out of curiosity I leaned down to peak in the hole (from about 5 feet away)and could see the rattler curled up in there since it was about 45 degrees that morning he was not moving but I know to stay away from that hole when the sun is shinning. I typically don't mess with a snake unless he is in my yard or near my tree stand, they have their place in the ecosystem also, but they still give me the willies .



Hot Core: all the shots have had exit wounds, typically about quarter size. Each shot has opened up on the hide with a good nickle size hole in the entrance area. I've had one misjudge on angle and ended up gut shooting one buck about 5th rib back, he only went 50 yards, that shot sold me on the TSX.

Great buck! Glad I could help. I have not had one problem with the TSX either. Fact is, it is currently my favorite hunting bullet.

So far, I've had about 9-10 kills with them, 130 (270), and 168 (30.06), and I've been very impressed. All pass throughs.

I've had each bullet open up just fine. Even on coyotes.

I'm shooting the 'Original' with 3 rings and accuracy was very good from the first development shots. I have a 'pet' load (this one is probably a lot of people's pet in 708) of 40.5 grains of IMR4895, just stuck a TSX on top of it and fired 3 rounds, .45" , this lets me know my rifle will shoot this bullet. I seat my bullets at 2.775 OAL, with the amount of freebore in my Model 700 I can't get near the lands, this OAL seems to work well with several loads so that is were I start. I can't yet say about blood-shot meat, my first deer is still hanging in the cooler (hide on) and I'll process it this weekend.

I was really concerned prior to the season that the TSX would really be 'too much' bullet for whitetails but the results shown so far are all positive. For the last several years I've been an SST fan but the TSX has made a believer out of me. I've got a box of 120gr TSX just waiting to be tried out when I can find the time. Maybe over Christmas I can get a couple of hours to go shoot the ones I have loaded (RL 15 & Varget to begin with).

Gonna put down the rife for a few days, I'm headed to Lousiana to shoot ducks with friends in Bunkie then on to Northen Mississippi to hunt with my brother and his friend who has a duck camp there. Man cannot live by deer hunting alone

Hey FL-bigfish, Thanks for the info. Sounds like you had fine luck from the get-go.

I've killed a good many Deer with both 120gr Hot-Cor and 120gr B-Tips in my 7mm-08. Both seem to work pretty well inside 200yds, but there can be a good bit of blood-shot meat. The last Doe I shot with the 120gr B-Tip entered the right shoulder and exited through the heart in the center of the chest. She turned(which I thought was a bit strange) and made it maybe 15yds and fell just past the edge of the field where I could drive right up to her. Sure would be nice if all of them did that.

Dressed her and as expected there was a good bit of blood-shot meat on the right shoulder and the chest too.

But what was a bit surprising to me was the left shoulder was blood-shot too with no signs of holes of any type. Maybe the hide on the left side pulled loose when the bullet Exited the center of her chest, but that just doesn't seem right to me. Anyway, plenty of blood-shot meat on her which was a lot more than normal.

I've got Geese normally going over the house at least twice a day. Apparently they don't like the way I look at them and try their best to "bomb" my truck.

Good luck on the Ducks.

Nice Buck!

Congrats!

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