Made it out Monday and took the CVA MR Ltd edition out, shooting 110 gr of BH 209, along with the Lehigh 458/300 gr subsonic bullets, Been shooting them on paper, now it was time to see what they would do on and animal.
Was out all day, had been seeing alot of small does, and spike bucks, nothing worth shooting, 1/2 hour before sunset, 3 does come out of the timber and he is right behind them, stopped on a little dike, he was quartering away from me. Ranged him at 158 yards, Set my dial on my scope for 150 yards, had the shooting sticks up all ready, Aimed for the opposite shoulder, Fired, He took a side step to the left then disapeared on the other side of the dike, reloaded and went over to check him out, he was gone, Then heard a bunch of noise behind some ciders, and there he was, he had went 35 yards.
Here he is, 7 pointer, 210 lbs field dressed.
Here is a picture of the entrance wound, There was no exit wound, so it was not a pass thru shot. When I opened him up, it looked like some one had taken a drill with a wire brush to the inside of the body, The bullets from Lehigh did as what they are suppose to do, open up and the pedals break off, and do there thing inside the body.
What surprise me was the rib that the bullet hit, was not broke, just the area where the bullet had gone thru it. The only medal that I could find was the piece above the entrance wound, you can just see it. It was lodged into the rib.
This is what the heart looked like.
I went back the next day to look for the Base and pedals, after I checked with a better light to make sure that it was not a pass thru on the deer, could not find one, so went looking, and the area had been cleaned up all ready, So I could not fine the bullet.
After seeing first hand what this bullet did to the insides of the deer and going thru part of a rib and not breaking it in half surprised me, then seeing what it did to the heart, I'M impressed with it.
I think that Lehigh Bullets has come up with some great bullets for muzzleloadering, for us to use.
Dave
Was out all day, had been seeing alot of small does, and spike bucks, nothing worth shooting, 1/2 hour before sunset, 3 does come out of the timber and he is right behind them, stopped on a little dike, he was quartering away from me. Ranged him at 158 yards, Set my dial on my scope for 150 yards, had the shooting sticks up all ready, Aimed for the opposite shoulder, Fired, He took a side step to the left then disapeared on the other side of the dike, reloaded and went over to check him out, he was gone, Then heard a bunch of noise behind some ciders, and there he was, he had went 35 yards.
Here he is, 7 pointer, 210 lbs field dressed.
Here is a picture of the entrance wound, There was no exit wound, so it was not a pass thru shot. When I opened him up, it looked like some one had taken a drill with a wire brush to the inside of the body, The bullets from Lehigh did as what they are suppose to do, open up and the pedals break off, and do there thing inside the body.
What surprise me was the rib that the bullet hit, was not broke, just the area where the bullet had gone thru it. The only medal that I could find was the piece above the entrance wound, you can just see it. It was lodged into the rib.
This is what the heart looked like.
I went back the next day to look for the Base and pedals, after I checked with a better light to make sure that it was not a pass thru on the deer, could not find one, so went looking, and the area had been cleaned up all ready, So I could not fine the bullet.
After seeing first hand what this bullet did to the insides of the deer and going thru part of a rib and not breaking it in half surprised me, then seeing what it did to the heart, I'M impressed with it.
I think that Lehigh Bullets has come up with some great bullets for muzzleloadering, for us to use.
Dave
