Hunting & Fishing Hunting Head Shots

[Jered Joplin]

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It was an experimental bullet that I made to expand at subsonic velocities. That one was shot at 3000 fps. It only really proved one thing. We didn't need to do that again if we wanted to eat what we shot.

 

[UgashikBob]

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Wolf 99 yards 223

 

[1911fan]

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I had a doe tag a couple years ago and took the .338 since we were in grizz country. Wound up shooting a whitetail doe in the head at 29 yards.
No wasted meat, no tracking; she went completely over backwards and was most definitely DRT, bang-THWOCK-thud. We found brain chunks ten feet up on the trees behind her.

1911fan

 

[Tbag]

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JJ, looks like you hit that one doe with a RPG. Your freezer looks full!

 

[rogue090]

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Cull from from yesterday @ 209 yds.
.308 155 amax over 45gr varget
Just in front of ear and never exited.

 

[coldboremiracle]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UgashikBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wolf 99 yards 223

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Thats got to be one of the creepier photos on this site.

 

[Tripwire]

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189 yards, 240 gr. XTP, 110 grains of FFg.....8.25 MOA from a 100 yard zero.

 

[Jered Joplin]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tbag</div><div class="ubbcode-body">JJ, looks like you hit that one doe with a RPG. Your freezer looks full! </div></div>

Trust me there is no shortage in my freezer.

 

[The_Hoff]

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JJ details on that bullet? what caliber, design, etc.? Can they be made in .223?

Looks good for varmint hunting and would love to try some of them!

 

[Advokaten]

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ok neck shot then,

that was a headshot, frontal one at smallish boar.

Best regards Chris

 

[Jered Joplin]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: The_Hoff</div><div class="ubbcode-body">JJ details on that bullet? what caliber, design, etc.? Can they be made in .223?

Looks good for varmint hunting and would love to try some of them! </div></div>

I sent the details to Corbon years ago because I'm not a bullet manufacturer and just wanted a supply of them. If I released the details it wouldn't be a secret. I will say it looked a lot like a Corbon powerball. They could be made in any caliber as long as you had the dies etc. to make them. Getting set up to start making one caliber is going to be about $1k + depending on how serious you want to be with it.

 

[beretta_man11]

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290yd doelope. 300wm and handload 180accubond @2800fps. I love watching things summer sault when running and getting shot in the ole noggin!

 

[HathcockProtege]

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The 2nd headshot of the squirrel season. 40 yards w/ Savage M-II.

I've only gone twice...kind of waiting for the leaves to fall so I can see/shoot a little farther. Interesting thread.

Safe Hunting,
-The Kid.

 

[Advokaten]

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Woken up this morning by having this pic revieced in a MMS,

Mike has taken two roes, side by side @ 132 meter, on shot facing him, the other looking away.

rifle used a Stenroos build 243 Win, 105 grains A-max @ 920 m/s.

Rem 700 base, Mcmillan A3-5 stock, Krieger barrel 24 inch 1:8 twist, and a Bushnell 6-24 scope.

Best regards Chris

 

[Benlow]

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Beeman R1 .22 Voles at 15 to 25 yards

Rem .223 VSSF 55gr V-Max

 

[Tbag]

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Pop-eye pork chop

 

[Tikkad]

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257 weatherby to the head

 

[Tikkad]

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what am i doing wrong with my pic?

 

[savage110]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tikka'd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">what am i doing wrong with my pic? </div></div>
use the image code for forums. Nice kill

 

[Duckslayer12]

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[Tbag]

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Duck, that last picture really takes the cake.lol

 

[6.5BR]

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6BR/105Amax/2850 mv

Yote- 176 yds, doe - 45, shot many other deer, one at 400.

Amax = death on alot of game in the pipsqueak BR.

 

[blakheaven]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UgashikBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body">CBM:
With a friend tracking this guy down in some very ugly alders after he had been hit previously. He put the first four from the 454 Casull in front chest and the last one right down the pipe. Very impressed with the shooter but not cartridge. </div></div> Well maybe it was just a tough old bear

 

[81mike]

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BigJohnson, I bet your hell on 3D shoots...nice shot on that little guy...obviously not the first time you've drawn a bow.

 

[coldboremiracle]

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Here is another one, a rabbit that wasn't too smart. Taken by CBM#2

a good "eater"

 

[BgBmBoo]

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Hit at 300 yards....ok...the wind "helped" me a bit.

Take care,Stan

 

[Chucky]

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[1010]

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10/22...

 

[clay_breaker]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dstewart</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cull from from yesterday @ 209 yds.
.308 155 amax over 45gr varget
Just in front of ear and never exited.

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Amazing how 155 Amax will sometimes stay in there even at close range. Shot a doe last week, same thing happened. bullet weighed 77 gr recovered.

 

[Chucky]

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168 grain Sierra HPBT right below the right eye and you can see the exit wound. DRT.

 

[USMC0331]

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Doe I shot a few years back at 65 yds. with a G31.

 

[Shortdraw]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: reelman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Head shots aon big game are fine IF everything is perfect but even then why? THere's nothing like seeing a deer running around with it's jaw blown off because the shot missed by just a bit.

The deer Vincoco has in his picture shows the jaw blown off and it looks like there is another shot in it's chest so I would say that deer did quite a bit of flipping before actually dieing.
For those that say they don't want to waste meat that's just BS! Shoot them through both lungs and you waste a pound of meat at the most.

Again, just because you can doesn't mean you should! </div></div> I tend to agree, I have had to finish off a doe that some genious tried to head shoot. She was very much alive minus her bottom jaw, trying to drink unsuccessfully. 4" low, and you got a deer that will suffer for a week or two. Pop both lungs, and the deer is dead. While I commend your shooting skills, I wouldn't do it myself, even though I could. Small game or varmints- go for it.

 

[ab_bentley]

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All were shot with the Mink rounds 20-22 caliber.

 

[Jered Joplin]

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Yote verses 162g Amax

 

[mattyboy72]

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hahahaha hot damn jjoplin thats freakin gnarly lmao

 

[barnes12]

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Here is a pig I shot a week and a half ago. Using my GAP 243 shooting 105gr Berger hunting VLD's at 219 yards. Got him in the eye.

 

[TOP PREDATOR]

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.22 mag 30gr v-max. technically it may be a neck shot. usually they do more damage...

 

[jasonahull]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TOP PREDATOR</div><div class="ubbcode-body">2 cents on head shots on big game, just because you can doesn't mean you should...

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i like how the turkeys eyes are blacked out

 

[armymedic.2]

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Top predator, is pam from "the office" hot in person?....lol

 

[rm76]

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First headshot pic -- never thought to take pics before although I've made many headshots in my life. This one at 342 yards with the workhorse (6.5-284) shooting 140 Berger VLDs. No discarded meat.

 

[Westtexan]

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From the time I was old enough to handle a gun, my dad also said one shot one kill... Everything we pretty much shot we had to eat so a head shot was the best.... I will always take one on a doe but the bucks I plan on mounting get the body shot.

 

[HathcockProtege]

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Older pic from this spring.

158g SWC .38 Special to the noggin' via 6" Ruger GP100 357 Mag.

Makes a pretty cool "Tunk!" sound when bullet meets skull.

-The Kid.

 

[smrkovsky]

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Whitetail Doe

Blackbuck Doe

Both shot with a 165 Sierra GameKing out of a 300 Win Mag.

 

[clinto]

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man that wolf looks creepy haha.

 

[dieselten]

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300 Whisper 220 bthp sub sonic

 

[OneDay1031]

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50yds Remington 270 139gr cor loct

 

[SmokeRolls]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Duckslayer12</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

</div></div>Hey do you know there's a zombie groundhog chewin on your rifle.???
Hahahahaha.
I'll see if I can't add to this thread....Here little coyote!!
.....SmokeRolls

 

[LongRangeSweden]

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I only had one last chance on this one - it was the last day of the season, last 20 min. I saw it walk up near a hill (about 200 m away +/- 1 m), everything was perfect, wind, humidity everything. The only issue was that I only could see the neck and up (from behind). A dog barked nearby so it froze, I took the chnce and there she droped.