Official Hammer Bullets Terminal Performance (picture heavy)

gltaylor

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We've been asked to start a new Thread on this new Forum to duplicate the thread we had on the old forum.
The original thread was started about 2018-2019 and is still located on the Long Range Hunting Forum. It is about 40-some pages long now. If you wish to see your old photos, you can go to LRH and search for the Thread with the above title.

The desire is to start a new thread on this Forum to continue providing a media to share photos of animals harvested.

This is mainly about showing the terminal performance inside the animal. It is not about just showing photos of your recent kill. We are most interested in:

-the path the bullet took, (broadside, quartering to or away, head on, etc.)
-what resistance it met, (hit ribs, between ribs, legbone, shoulder bone, etc.)
-what kind of damage it did to internal organs, (photos of heart/lungs/liver, etc. while butchering is very helpful)
-petal damage and patterns, (did petals exit, impact pattern they exhibited against far side of ribcage/hide)
-straightness of travel,
-distance the shank traveled,
-whether the shank exited the carcass.

A photo journey is very helpful, especially for those new to Hammer Bullets.

Looking forward to your help and participation.

GL

Thanks for your help!

Some photos from the old Thread will be posted as soon as possible.
 

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Young man's 1st deer @ 450y with my 338 BigDog (338 Lap imp) running 285g Hammer Hunters @ 3110fps.Cole deer 4.jpeg Cole deer3.jpeg Cole deer2.jpeg Cole deer1.jpeg

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RockyMtnMT

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Cow that I shot at just over 600y. Using my 338 BigDog with the 260g Hammer Hunter at 3250fps. I was using a couple of rifles on this trip and got messed up on the zero for this one. Used a 300y zero to calc the shot when the rifle was actually zeroed at 200y causing me to hit very low just catching the heart. Cow went about 50y and dropped. Didn't get a pic of how close I was to missing this but bullet passed through about 3" of elk only about 1" into the chest cavity.
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cubdriver84d

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374 yards, 300 win mag, Hammer Hunter 166. Double lung shot and just nicked a scapula. Only made it about five steps.
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They shoot tiny groups too. Love these bullets.
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That is what we are after. Nose shed to the hollow point depth (same weight retention with high or low vel) with a nice flat front on the retained shank.
 


Horse

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Utah cow elk, 169 HH 3230 FPS 28 Nosler 520 yards. 1 inch hole on both sides. Hit top of the lungs. She went 20 yards down hill. When I boned her out I found where one of the pedals had fractured the edge of the scapula.
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243 win
71gr sledgehammer
~3400-3500fps
~30 yard shot
About a 20 yd death run

entrance
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Exit
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TXAoudadKlr

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Terminal performance

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"Only accurate rifles are interesting"- Townsend Whelen
 
Well, i may have decided my 7mm RUM is a bit much for our 100 lb whitetails.
Shot a nice doe this morning. Using 131gr Hammer Hunters at 3688. She probably thought a semi had run over her. Blew lung and other tissue 12 ft passed her in the field. As usual the Hammers didn't destroy a lot of meat, but they surely wrecked her insides. When I skinned and quartered her, her insides came out as liquid pretty much. May drop back to my 6.5-06 AI.

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ButterBean

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@7stw knocked 2 down tonight with a 92g HH out of a 25-06AI story to follow

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Pictures are worth a thousand words! So thanks for the three grand!
 
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Kids 5 point bull
If I remember correctly 485 yards. Broke front leg on the way in and a rib on the way out. 3 of 4 petals also exited. Staggered 2 steps and piled up.

235 gr HH @ 3000fps out of a 33 Nos.
 
Here's some bullet performance photos:
Notice petal pattern and petal penetration in some photos. 92gr is Impact velocity.l
 

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More terminal performance:
 

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More high speed impacts...
Lung matter/blood blown out and sprayed on foliage beyond deer.
 

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