What really happened to the Billy Goats Gruff
This heart warming story sent in by Reader Rhys
I had a young man who's in the process currently of applying for his firearms licence come and stay for a week to go hunting wild goats out the scrub at the back of the farm.
& the group from the hunt itself…
...three bucks dragged out to where we could pick them up with the tractor. The billy with the white splash on his side was Joshe's biggest set of horns yet; 22 1/2 inches tip to tip. The other two were a fluke I had happen - two goats with one shot as one ran behind the other as I fired. The projectile entered the base of the grey ones neck and ripped out the side, severing the carotid, and continued into the ribs of the third lying off to the left side of the picture, holing the lung.
This is the graphic display of what a .308 Sellier & Bellot SPCE 150gr does as it whips though a beasts heart. It used to propel blood around a goat
The S&B 150g SPCE seems a good round, full penetration, nice exit holes and plenty of damage to the vital organs. Most shots were through and throughs, exiting with a nice blood channel smashed through the animal. The only time a bullet was recovered was from in the second animal of the 2-with-1-shot. The damage was not as great as it is with my usual SMLE with 174gr Hornady RN SP handloads, but still dropped the animals with a comfortable amount of organ damage for one shot kills.
All in all it was a good week. Josh got some young animals for meat to take home for curry and his biggest goat head yet.
I got some old buck meat to fill the freezer for the dogs to eat, and a few days out wandering the hillsides watching someone else getting bitten by the hunting bug.
Such happiness, that just for a few minutes I forgot that most of today will be spent shorting my own stock.
Comments
Good shooting!
Looks like the makin's of some good chislic there.
John
Posted by: John | January 28, 2009 3:15 PM
I like hill-kittens.
Especially in a good vindaloo.
Posted by: Kristopher | January 28, 2009 5:05 PM