gixer1 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 (edited) Had a free afternoon today so I went and checked the rifle and then headed to a bit of ground I have the stalking on, walked a mile an a half over fields scanning around the woods and field edges and spotted a pair of doe's, stalked along the edge of the field and down a wall towards them and sat and watched them for half an hour as they moved across the field. I then spotted a lone doe walking up the field on the other side of the wall I was stalking along so sat and watched her - she seemed to have a slight limp to the rear right leg but nothing that seemed to be bothering her too much, I waited as she walked from right to left and then eventually walked through the opening in the wall I was hidden behind, I put the crosshairs on her and squeezed the round off with a good "thump" on report. She ran about 30ft away from me and jumped the wall but I knew she was well hit so I thought I'd give it five minutes. I watched the first two doe's scanning the terrain but they remained in the field about 150 yards away although on full alert. After about two minutes passed and I saw an orange flash at the wall where the shot doe had crossed - a cheeky fox decided it was going to have a look around, crosshairs on her and she dropped on the spot. I then went down to pick up the doe and she had made it about 15 over the wall but had fallen I to a small burn and was soaked! Made lifting her over the wall more interesting! Unfortunately the round fragmented and for some reason turned 90 degrees and has passed through the diaphragm and punctured part of the intestine, no biggie as it was hanging out and the rest of her was clean. One odd thing was she had a large smooth patch on her neck - not sure why but it was smooth - not malting or anything - any ideas anyone?? No sign of irritation and she looked pretty healthy other than the slight limp. So a two for one deal! The bald patch - All in all a good result, as I was cleaning her out the other two were still in the field about 200 yards away. One addition is its odd that the round behaved the way it did as I have had excellent results with these (75 gr BT Norma's) on both roe and fox - but have noticed more damage than the 80gr sp's I was using. Regards, Gixer Edited February 23, 2013 by gixer1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olly321 Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 good shooting mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowen20 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Lighter bullets always fragment than heavier ones. Go up in weight for a slower more controlled expansion. Looks a nice clean fox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted February 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Lighter bullets always fragment than heavier ones. Go up in weight for a slower more controlled expansion. Looks a nice clean fox. Agreed - but I think it's more the ballistic tip - the problem with going up in weight is I find the 75 he have a nice flat trajectory, I'm thinking the 80gr sp's might be worth a go again. Regards, Gixer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 (edited) 'One odd thing was she had a large smooth patch on her neck - not sure why but it was smooth - not malting or anything - any ideas anyone??' Can't be of any help explaining why it had a smooth patch, but the doe I shot last weekend had a similar patch on its neck, though not as large as the one in the photo. Edited February 25, 2013 by J.C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyrapid177mk2 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Charlie was a great added bonus...nice one..atb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Agreed - but I think it's more the ballistic tip - the problem with going up in weight is I find the 75 he have a nice flat trajectory, I'm thinking the 80gr sp's might be worth a go again. Regards, Gixer I think they are the 75 vmax bullets Norma use in which case they can be a bit destructive and variable, one of the best fox bullets going but not really a deer bullet unless head or neck shooting. I far prefer 85 grn soft points for deer and they work surprisingly well on foxes drop wise they are surprisingly similar at 200 yards to my 75 load Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delburt0 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Nice shooting mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted February 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 I think they are the 75 vmax bullets Norma use in which case they can be a bit destructive and variable, one of the best fox bullets going but not really a deer bullet unless head or neck shooting. I far prefer 85 grn soft points for deer and they work surprisingly well on foxes drop wise they are surprisingly similar at 200 yards to my 75 load I originally used 80gr SP's alex but started to use the Norma's and was pretty happy with the results - the rib cage does get a bit more damage but really on roe how much meat do you take from that? - i had 36 buck's with them last year with very good reults although you do notice the goey damage patch is a bit bigger. I have a couple of boxes of PRVI 80's i think so may swap to them for a while but I seem do more lamping/foxing at the moment wheras do more stalking in the summer (fair weather shooter ) Regards, Gixer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysako Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 nice shooting !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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