Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck

[Gunner500]

Well Gunner nine feet of penetration through tough muscle and probably a grass filled stomach using the .50 sure dispels the notion that the .50 does not penetrate.

Good going!!
Kurt

Thanks Kurt, and you better believe it'll penetrate, I mashed my little pea brain to bits on figuring out a bullet shape that I thought would penetrate, and penetrate straight in my 22 twist 50-90, sent the drawings up to Steve Brooks.

He cut me a beautiful mould that was right on the money, with six grease grooves and a meplat of .335" it flys amazingly well to 400 yards so far, which is as far as I've correlated the buckhorn barrel sights on my 50.

It weighs 750 grains and leaves my rifle at 1365 fps with 110 grains of OE 2F, I was floored at the level of penetration, you see, this animal was not standing, I believe meat and bone [hanging] or standing with gravity doing what it does makes a bullets job of penetrating easier, kinda pulling everything apart if you will.

If we can try to imagine the "compacted forces" on the meat and bone of an 1800lb animal bedded, then have a bullet enter a compacted ham and completelly traverse thru the animal only to be stopped by the hide of the off shoulder, that's the part that blew me away.

The recovered bullet is sitting right in front of the keyboard I'm typing this reply on, it measures 1.178" long with a .770" expanded nose.

Cant wait to find more heavy game in coming years to use it on, I've got this hunt on video and in pictures, and will relive it many times over.