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Subsonic Deer Hunting
I've read a lot of different threads about this, but I wanted to get some more opinions. I shot a doe the other day she jumped and ran 10 feet and stopped behind a tree, then 5 mins later I saw her start walking away so I popped off another shot. again she jump ran 10 feet and stopped. Then bed down. I waited 30 mins and then went over she jumped up and ran. I found next to no blood (3 drops), but I kept looking around and I jumped her again. Got too dark so I came back the next morning and looked around for 2 hours and never found her.
I've got a TC contender 15" 1in8". Bullet was a 240 SMK over 6gr of AA#5. Zero at 85. Shot was at about 25.
Needless to say I can't have this happen again so next year if I hunt with this again subsonic. I would like to use a better bullet. (Otherwise I'm thinking about going to the 130gr Barnes TSX) So far I'm thinking:
240gr SMK (loaded Backwards)
250gr Hawk
275gr Lead Spitzer (from Hotguns @ SilencerTalk)
240gr Outlaw
168gr Leigh
Can I hear a little about each? What do you guys use? Why didn't my 240 smks work? Thank you.
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