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    300 AAC Blackout for deer

    With 300 BLK being a relatively new round I thought it would be good to have some real life results on its effectiveness. If you use this cartridge for deer post up the specifics of your results. Please don't turn this into an argument thread. Let's just get some good data. Thanks in advance everyone.

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    1 1/2 year old Michigan northern lower peninsula buck. I thought long and hard before I dropped the hammer on him. I like the idea of "let them go, let them grow" but I like the idea of venison in the freezer for my family better. Wish it would have been a doe of the same size. Anyhow, 50 yard shot quartered moderately toward me. Bullet entered right side just behind an outstretched front leg. It exited left side at the diaphragm. Double lung, clipped the liver and after rinsing the heart well I found it to be bruised. I don't know if that was just the blood settling or if it was caused by the temporary wound cavity. Rifle is a 300 AAC Blackout. Ammunition used was Winchester Deer Season XP 150 grain ballistic tip. Whitetail ran about 125 after being shot and expired. Blood trail consisted of eye dropper sizes drops of blood every couple of feet. It was by no means a blood bath but consistent enough to follow. I am glad it ran out of the swamp rather than deeper in as this probably would have made tracking more difficult.

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    Shot my last 2 dear with my 300blk SBR. Hand loaded 130g Barnes TTSX. Both neck shot at around 100 yards. Bled out within 15 yards of where hit. The SBR makes a very handy tree stand rifle. This year I get to run it suppressed. Up hunting now so hopefully this week I'll repeat!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danco411 View Post
    Shot my last 2 dear with my 300blk SBR. Hand loaded 130g Barnes TTSX. Both neck shot at around 100 yards. Bled out within 15 yards of where hit. The SBR makes a very handy tree stand rifle. This year I get to run it suppressed. Up hunting now so hopefully this week I'll repeat!
    Deliberate neck shot? Why?

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    Shot a big doe few years back with my Handi Rifle and Barnes 110 grain vortex. She was maybe 30 yards away and I took a high shoulder shot. She fell over dead. I was hoping to recover the bullet but it went clean through. I was impressed.

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    I used my 25 45 Sharps a couple days but shot the doe fawn w/ the 77/44 and it ran about 75 yards spraying blood every 15 feet or so. Glad there was some snow on the ground as it made it a walking track.

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