The leopard literally had a fist sized hole with half a lung hanging out... But it was an entry wound! The cat did not present any semblance of a perfect shot angel and looked about ready to jump the tree so when I got a shot at a slightly quartering tree, I took it. The bullet had to have struck a branch which in that very green tree, I would have expected to not effect it much, but the bullet broke into at least 4 pieces and must have tumbled to make such a big hole, with another hole right behind it and a scrape mark behind that. 3 pieces were recovered after traversing the chest and ending up in the back of the digestive tract. (paying the skinner $5 per bullet helps recover them
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Successful as far as a dead cat fell out of the tree.. .But not what I would call great bullet performance....
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