Fox Classic Hunter

[mike308]

I removed this bullet from a Red/Sika hybrid stag that I shot last week, it was lodged on the inside of the shoulder. An angled shot from above in through the ribs then through the lungs into the shoulder from 156 yards.
The bullet is a Fox classic hunter 150 grain, the bullet now weighs in at 149 grain.
The stag dropped on the spot

 

[paul o']

I Use them in .270 and as you say they drop to the shot.
Really happy with them ! accuracy seems to be easy to achieve in short order.

 

[Rutland lad]

That looks similar to the results I’m getting using 123 grain Fox Classic Hunter in 6.5x55.
Hoping to use 150 grain Classic Hunter in my .308 when I get round to it.
They do the job.



Above is a Barnes which I use in .300 Winmag - similar deformation to my eye.

 

[Keith Edmunds]

That looks similar to the results I’m getting using 123 grain Fox Classic Hunter in 6.5x55.
Hoping to use 150 grain Classic Hunter in my .308 when I get round to it.
They do the job.

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Above is a Barnes which I use in .300 Winmag - similar deformation to my eye.

What range? Not much expansion..... unless petals missing?

 

[Whitefront]

In use Fox 130 gr in a 7mm-08. Great stuff.

 

[Rutland lad]

What range? Not much expansion..... unless petals missing?

Which one - Fox or Barnes ??

 

[Keith Edmunds]

Which one - Fox or Barnes ??

The Barnes.

 

[Heym SR20]

I removed this bullet from a Red/Sika hybrid stag that I shot last week,View attachment 398447 it was lodged on the inside of the shoulder. An angled shot from above in through the ribs then through the lungs into the shoulder from 156 yards.
The bullet is a Fox classic hunter 150 grain, the bullet now weighs in at 149 grain.
The stag dropped on the spot

2x expansion to my eye, I suppose I could measure with callipers but battery is flat .

Any more expansion would just cause more carcass damage, but it dropped on the spot dead and bullet quartered through the animal.

But looks about perfect to me given distance and shot placement.

 

[Keith Edmunds]

Agree, Fox expansion looks good. I was referring to this Barnes image.

 

[jthyttin]

Clearly missing petals.

 

[Rutland lad]

Agree, Fox expansion looks good. I was referring to this Barnes image.

That was recovered from a tree stump acting as a rest on which a very basic ‘check zero’ target had been placed.

I’ve never recovered a bullet from a carcasse.

Perhaps the fairly solid tree stump prevented the normal expansion we would expect.

To be honest it wasn’t until you asked the question that I realised why it probably looked the way it did.

 

[Keith Edmunds]

That was recovered from a tree stump acting as a rest on which a very basic ‘check zero’ target had been placed.

I’ve never recovered a bullet from a carcasse.

Perhaps the fairly solid tree stump prevented the normal expansion we would expect.

To be honest it wasn’t until you asked the question that I realised why it probably looked the way it did.

I reckon the petals were left in the tree