Entry & Exit Wounds Nowhere Near Eachother

Bit of an odd one.

I shot a young Red Stag tonight off the sticks at about 75 yards. I judged him to be just off broadside, quatering to me just a hair. I made the decision though to take him on the shoulder as the field I was in was surrounded by dense woodland and I did not want him running.

He hunched at the shot, took two steps backwards and went down. Alarm bells rang in my ears - gutshot. No follow up shot was needed however, a couple of kicks and he expired.

On reaching him for the gralloch I found the entry wound at the point of aim, but the bullet hadn't exited. Instead, it had come to rest just under the skin at his most rearward rib on the opposite side. It had deformed just perfectly and was facing outward in the expected direction of travel. I was absolutely amazed how far back it was though.

The internal damage was huge, organs and green everywhere - one for the dogs.

What are SD members experiences of bullets turning or deflecting on the way through an animal as I can't see what else happened?

Bullet used was a Norma 130gr Soft Point out of my .270

Thanks.

 

[sausage man]

I did the same with a Norma 130g soft point from a .270 last week.
Do you still have the batch codes?
Neck shot, the bullet penetrated the bone then went straight down the vertebrae then came out of the front leg the same side the bullet went in..

 

[keeperstweed]

i shot a muntjac buck a couple of years ago, that was side on 40 yds heart and lung shot.
the bullet smashed all the inners and came out arse end. totaly ruined.
100gr 243.

 

[Jinga]

Carcase wasted was it so bad you couldn't eat it yourself ,yes it couldn't enter a dealer / butchers but it would jolly well have entered my freezer !
​Norma

Red Stag in the rut - each to their own i suppose

 

[Jinga]

There must be someone who has created ballistic jelly models with bones and other harder things in to test bullets by filming. It would be fascinating to watch high res footage of bullets reacting to hitting bones of different sizes and demonstrating some of these traits. Anyone heard of this?

 

[rick6point5]

all over youtube...take a look
​atb

 

[270Buck]

all over youtube...take a look
​atb

post some links if you could.

​cheers

 

[techno]

Carcase wasted was it so bad you couldn't eat it yourself ,yes it couldn't enter a dealer / butchers but it would jolly well have entered my freezer !
​Norma

​mine too!!!

 

[bewsher500]

post some links if you could.

​cheers

not ideal
one thing to note from this one is the massive difference in "shock" between the various weight and bullet speeds

 

[Wheesht!]

I did the same with a Norma 130g soft point from a .270 last week.
Do you still have the batch codes?
Neck shot, the bullet penetrated the bone then went straight down the vertebrae then came out of the front leg the same side the bullet went in..

Thanks for the replies, comparisons and info, and my apologies for starting a thread and not following up on it! Life's been flat out and I haven't been on here in a while.

Batch number was: 20169022

Interestingly, i've got some Norma 110gr VMax here for foxing, two boxes same batch number, yet different coloured primers?

I didn't write the entire carcass off, saying "one for the dogs" was just a turn of phrase.

 

[david1976]

As a licensed venison dealer I see a lot of shot deer from a variety of calibres and bullets.

The worst damage by far from my experience (and it's only mine) is from SST bullets, I have previously found entry holes in the shoulder with shrapnel in the shoulder, neck, flank, haunches and fillet ruining pretty much the whole beast.

 

[Von]

+1 cant believe it wasted the whole carcass!

Likewise...surely something their to salvage. I've never had to chuck a deer no matter if the shot placement or deflection has been bad.

 

[Tim.243]

From the small number of deer I have shot with my .243 the red stag was 130 yards and facing slightly away off broadside and ran 30 yds.
The heart was smashed in little bits, with the 5 fallow I shot a couple of weeks ago a buck was 100yds 3/4 facing me with the neck shot it just fell over, a second buck was 160 yds and was 1/4 facing away which buckled and never mover a bit.
The other 3 were broadside, one stepped sideways 2-3 paces and fell in a ditch and the doe's ran 25 ish yards but were dead on there feet.
All the rounds had kept quite a good track....
Tim.243

 

[Wheesht!]

I didn't write the entire carcass off, saying "one for the dogs" was just a turn of phrase.

As above.