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Originally Posted by hugger-4641
Entry was a little high behind the shoulder, shattered a rib and got the heart and lungs. No exit points, and blood trail was much better than I usually get with my 30-30. Maybe hitting the rib helped, but I've hit ribs and heart plenty of times n the past and not had so much blood to follow.
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Originally Posted by KalamazooKid
You hit “high behind the shoulder” and got the heart? How does that happen?
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If I had to hazard a guess without autopsying the animal I would figure the bullet fragged on impact because he was using a target type bullet. He also hit a rib. Because there was no exit hole, I'd bet that between the bullet fragments and bone fragments he probably scrambled everything in the chest cavity.
Bullets do strange thing when they contact flesh. One time I shot a whitetail with a 180gr 300 WSM broadside just behind right front shoulder. The bullet contacted the left side ribs and ended up in the right side ham. Things happen.