here is another picture of a vey nice roe buck from this season.



it was taken with one of Lutz M�ller's KJG or Kupfer Jagd Geschoss (copper hunting bullet)



you may read more about them visiting H. M�ller's web page.

regards,

montero

The heather suggests it was not in Spain.

Bobby V. der P.,

the heather in the picture is an erica umbellata



it is not the most common heather in Spain of the several subspecies we have: erica arborea, erica cinerea, erica atlantica, erica australis, calluna vulgaris, erica lusitanica,...

do a google search looking for "brezo" and "urce", two Spanish words for heather and you'll be surprised.

I have to admit I do not really get your point.

regards, montero

Weidmannsheil, Montero. Another great buck, and some lovely photos to boot. Did you take the picture of the cartridge, or was that a commercial photograph??
- mike

Waidmanns Danke, Mike!

I did not take the picture, I took it straight from one of Lutz's pages in his very interesting website http://home.snafu.de/l.moeller/

regards,

montero

Did not mean to offend you, Montero, it's just that the corzo is rather rare in your country, and I figured you had made a trip to Scotland. Nice buck, congrats

Nice picture, you are having a good run of luck! (maybe skill too!) How does that bullet compare to the Barnes X?

I have no experience with Barnes X bullets, sorry.

My experience with the KJG is that they are accurate and may be driven really fast. Due to their driving band design, the total friction surface is minimum, which seems to help pressures low and to be easy on the barrel.

I have only shot this buck with them and performance was outstanding. The shot was taken at 110 meters at a quartering away buck. I had a good rest and as the buck was about to disappear in the thick heather without offering his side, I carefully aimed for his opposite shoulder and let go.

The bullet hit him in the abdomen, going through his stomach, which was full, lung, heart, and breaking the shoulder on its way out.

It produced extensive damage and the buck toppled over at the shot, kicked about twice and died, exactly where he had been standing.

I was impressed. In fact, I was happy to shoot the KJG thinking that they would easily overpenetrate almost anything with little expansion and internal damage (Lutz, forgive me if you read this), what would provide my Bayerische bitch, Polka, with a long trail to follow, but it didn't work like that...

regards,

montero

That's another very nice buck Montero,what cartridge/calibre do you favor for Roe?
regards
VulpesVulpes

Vulpes,
I have shot them with different cartridges from the .222 Rem up to the 8x68S and 9,3x74R.
I have a personal sweet spot for the 5,6x50R shooting a 60gr Hornady Spire Point at 3,250 fps but I have settled on a 6,5x57R.
The reason is that while stalking roe I eventually step over a big wild boar and the 6,5mm takes care of them very efficiently while the 5,6 is not a sound chooice.
montero

No problem, Bobby.

I guess these two pictures ain't in Spain, either





best regards,

montero

Montero

Very nice buck, congratulations

Did the buck drop on the spot or did you have to rely on polka to find it

Cheers
/ JOHAN