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This was my. bull 100 yards same bullet, same powder 460 No excuses 100 grains Pyrodex RS. Notice the dark spot on the shoulder, he was hit with an arrow during the archery hunt, a 100 grain Muzzy. Made it through the shoulder bone and into the boiler room, but the tip was only scratching a lung. Another inch of penetration and that archer would have recovered him I’m certain. I was in a bad position and hit him high and back, he went 150-200 yards and then lights out. Not much of a blood trail and I was nervous I wasn’t gonna recover him, but in the end it worked out. I’ve shot 3 other bulls with that same combo and none have gone more than a couple of steps. One at 120 yards, an almost exact scenario to my buddies Colorado bull. Bang, drop. All bullets were recovered in the animal just under the hide on the offside of the entrance, and all were about the size of a nickel on the mushroom. Firm believer in big, heavy, lead bullets for any North American animal.
 
Good video and great bull sdporter. Looks like you were carrying a second gun for a quick follow up shot. Never seen that before. What gun did you shoot him with and what was your back up?
 
.504 White Whitetail, zeroed at 100, shooting 100 grains Pyrodex RS and actually the bullet, I think I mis-stated in the above post, was my copy of Docs Buckbuster bullet from long ago. I didn’t buy any bullets from Dave until I got my S91 and it wouldn’t shoot the Buckbusters, wouldn’t shoot the NE either. Wouldn’t shoot anything. .507 bore on it and a worn out breechplug. Got all that remedied now though.

The back up is my .50 cal TC Renegade loaded with 100 grains Pyrodex RS and a TC 250 EZ Glide. Zeroed at 200.

I always have two loaded in the truck, but I seldom pack them both anymore now that we can use magnifying scopes. Used to be a 1x was all that was allowed. The dang crosshairs and red dot completely covered a paper plate at 200. That’s why I started packing both, too hard to judge holdover when you can’t hardly see the target, and I’m stuck with glass now, can’t see that little tiny bead anymore.
 
My friends bull this year in Colorado, 181 yards 460 grain No Excuses, 100 grains Pyrodex RS. Enough said.

Awesome bang flop! What range are you sighting in at? What kind of drop does that load have at 200 yds? My last bull was 162 yds with no way of getting closer, and in some places we hunt the ranges are longer. I'm in Washington state and have to use open sights. I'm running a peep sight with a fiberoptic dot up front. Hoping to have a load where I don't have to hold off the elk at 200 yds. I'm trying to find a solid 200 yd load that can hammer an elk just like the video. Been using the 290 Barnes TMZ and it works when u have perfect shot placement.
 
Awesome bang flop! What range are you sighting in at? What kind of drop does that load have at 200 yds? My last bull was 162 yds with no way of getting closer, and in some places we hunt the ranges are longer. I'm in Washington state and have to use open sights. I'm running a peep sight with a fiberoptic dot up front. Hoping to have a load where I don't have to hold off the elk at 200 yds. I'm trying to find a solid 200 yd load that can hammer an elk just like the video. Been using the 290 Barnes TMZ and it works when u have perfect shot placement.
That was actually my friends bull in Colorado, also open sights only, he was using the SeeAll Open Sight Gen 2. I'll see if I can find a pic of it and stick it in here. I think he sights in about like I do 4" high at 100 yards should put you around 12" low at 200 (6X 2nd dot down on my 3x9 Bushnell) it seems like when I was using a red dot, thats about what I had was 16" fall from 100-200. Its a rainbow but if you know the yardage, its just holdover at that point.. I shot a yearling cow 2018 at right about 200 yards with 100 grains BH209 and a T/C EZ Glide 250 grain (non-bonded) she went about 50 yards, hit a little high, about 4" under the spine, right through about 2/3 up on the lungs. It was over pretty quick. Got full pass through and a nice large exit hole. Not a lot of blood being hit that high, it all filled what was left of her lungs.
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/seeall-open-sight-review/
 
That was actually my friends bull in Colorado, also open sights only, he was using the SeeAll Open Sight Gen 2. I'll see if I can find a pic of it and stick it in here. I think he sights in about like I do 4" high at 100 yards should put you around 12" low at 200 (6X 2nd dot down on my 3x9 Bushnell) it seems like when I was using a red dot, thats about what I had was 16" fall from 100-200. Its a rainbow but if you know the yardage, its just holdover at that point.. I shot a yearling cow 2018 at right about 200 yards with 100 grains BH209 and a T/C EZ Glide 250 grain (non-bonded) she went about 50 yards, hit a little high, about 4" under the spine, right through about 2/3 up on the lungs. It was over pretty quick. Got full pass through and a nice large exit hole. Not a lot of blood being hit that high, it all filled what was left of her lungs.
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/seeall-open-sight-review/
Michiganmuzzy needs to see this sight .
 

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