sierra 150 grain/ 30 cal. / 3 inch tree / dead doe !

[willyp]

My son sent me a picture of a 3 inch tree he hit shooting at a doe that jumped out and he shot at !  Bullet went thru the tree and the deer,he says,dropped in it's tracks !
He says there was a hole the size of his fist in it ? The deer.
I never heard of such a thing. Any time i have hit a tree it always missed the deer !

[Muab Dib]

Lady Luck is sometimes lurking in the deer wood. The times I've hit a tree are the times I've missed.

Muab

[Loggy]

Ditto on Muab's post. Certainly possible though imo.

[Deleted]

Lucky. My uncle did the same thing with a 30-06, a tree, and a deer, but he was using 220 grains.

[willyp]

My thought was or is, Sierra Bullets just don't seem that tough to me ! I would have thought it would have destroyed itself in the tree ?
I have taken deer with these at 100 plus yards and the damage to the hit area was very substantial, like the bullet was destroyed !

[Deleted]

Yeah, I would've expected it to go to pieces too being a 150 grain.

[buzz]

JJs brother was shooting at a doe a few years ago in ML season. He hit a small tree and missed the deer.
As he stood there watching the deer trot off, the tree tipped over and hit him in the head.

Had a small bump on his noggin from it........and of course the rest of us laughed our asses off......

[turkeykiller]

Years ago, I shot a buck where the bullet when thru a 2" saplin. I was usin a custom made 7mm Mag with 160 gr. Sierra Game Getter. The buck dropped in it's tracks. 

[3212]

I posted this before somewhere.The old timer who invited me to his camp had a set of large antlers with a bullet hole through one a couple inches above the base.I would not have believed the antler would not be splintered.He said he was scoping the antlers and touched it off.The buck went down and stood up,then he killed it.

[dennyf]

I've killed a buck with a 30-06 and a 165gr bullet, that included a "nicked" 2" sapling. According to my farmer uncle, I'd "bounced a ball into a buck". Sapling was within a few feet of the deer, never saw it in the Weaver K4. Noticed the shaved bark when gutting the buck.

Killed a BB one year after first hitting a sapling between the deer and me. Peep sight, maybe a 60 yard shot, so the sapling wasn't really part of the sight picture. Best part, hour or so later, same BB wandered past and got shot dead. Had a grazing wound on the front shoulder w/dab of green bark under the hide.

Might've even been the same deer I took a whack at early that morning from the back porch, when the winds were still howling and the rain was coming down heavy? Missed two shots at deer that day, before I figured out the aperture insert was in the peep sight and I'd been shooting over them.

Somewheres around here I have some old 30-06 GI "black tipped" armor piercing rounds. Maybe I'll try them next year and see how they work on small trees?

Used to have a box of ought six GI blanks, too. Compliments of the Legion Honor Guard. Used them up torturing two local DWCOs years ago, if they drove past camp right around dark in buck season. Waited until they'd gone down into a little dip in the road about 100 yards past camp, then touch one or two off out on the porch in the M760.