The hunter I spoke with said his wife had shot a good buck this morning. She shot it in the point of the shoulder at 40 yards with a .243…..They tried to track it a little after the shot but ran out of blood. They came back in a little after lunch with a search party and finally picked back up on blood. At 1:00 they jumped the buck out of its bed about 400 yards from the hit site. They said the bed had decent blood in it but the buck still looked pretty lively. We’re gonna give him overnight and hope he’s dead by tomorrow morning. Not sure what we’re dealing with on this one.
Does anyone know anything about the Winchester .243 Extreme Point??? Isn’t that just some form of a fragmenting ballistic tip?? I’m wondering if the bullet maybe exploded on the deer’s shoulder and fragmented. The guy said his wife was usually a good shot and it was only 40 yards away.
