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granhaven
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Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged
07/06/12 09:36 PM

Yesterday I had the luck to shoot a nice Roe Buck with my Gebr. merkel 375 H&H Flanged, loaded with W. Romey and 300 grains Woodleigh RN.

The distance was app 35 meters and the bullet entered tru the left front leg and exited at the last rib on the other side. The exit hole was app 4-5 centimeters

I admit that I was heavily over armed for our small deer and the summer hunt. It would be perfectly acceptable to use a .222 with a 50 grains bullet. However this was my first outing with the Merkel and I just couldent resist the temptation to try it out.
As allways I harly noticed the shot, just focused on the buck just a few meters away. The Buck ran just 15 or 20 meters and was dead. There were a lot of lung fragments in the blood so I knew that it would be lying close to the spot.

The summer here is extreemly dry, so walking is difficult with all dry leaves and small branches making a lot of noise, but I found the roebuck sleeping and saw it at maybe 10 meters , but couldent shoot , the Buck noticed something was wrong, and started of but unsure of what had disturbed him, he turned back to see me at maybe 35 meters distance, I knew that would be the only chance so the shot fell in this very moment.

The bullet performed as could be expected, maybe 1/3 of the heart is missing, and the exit hole is acceptable. So now we will dream about something black and bigger.

Darz bor, Peter Frost Hørlyck

Edited by CptCurl (08/06/12 06:53 AM)

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Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	granhaven	15/05/12 01:58 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	granhaven	07/06/12 09:36 PM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	lancaster	08/06/12 03:36 PM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	mehulkamdar	09/06/12 11:39 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	NitroX	10/06/12 02:49 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	granhaven	10/06/12 07:26 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	xausa	09/12/12 01:25 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	granhaven	09/12/12 11:32 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	NitroX	10/06/12 06:38 PM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	granhaven	08/12/12 07:06 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	Rule303	10/06/12 09:06 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	lancaster	15/05/12 04:40 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	CptCurl	16/05/12 02:19 AM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	rigbymauser	28/05/12 03:52 PM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	Ben	28/05/12 06:13 PM
Re: Gebr. Merkel 223 cal. .375 Flanged	Maximus	03/06/12 02:28 AM

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