Hunting report...

[MichiGun Hunter]

About 15 minutes after daylight she and several others came rite up the fence row i was sitting in between 2 cut corn fields. 15-20 yards quartered to me a shad more than i would've liked, but the shot was there and i felt pretty good for distance. I am more than comfortable with that range keeping my shots every bit of inside a pop can. Corbon 135gr JHP @ 1450fps (factory projected) proved instant Lights Out. The Corbons were my ammo of choice because of the 3 different boxes i have, those were what i shot the most accurate and consistent. I was after a well place shot and got what i was looking for.



Goods news... When we skinned the doe I ended up recovering the 135gr Nosler JHP. It had made it all the way (diagonally, as she was quartered to me just a tad) through the chest cavity, (where everything was just moosh ), continued through the opposite shoulder and was found in the thick fatty tissues just between the hide and meat.

I was surprised in two ways after this experience using this ammo on whitetail deer. First i was surprised when i field dressed the animal and found all the fragmentation. When at first i couldn't find the slug or an exit I just couldn't make myself believe that the entire thing just fragged apart like that. But thats what I came to... Upon finding the slug, i was even more surprised to see such a nice mushroom still intact as it should be. So it had me baffled... I was curious to see the new weight.

Here are a couple pics. The slug retained 93-94 grains(cheap scale, went back and forth). From 135 that gives 42 grains of frag. Im glad we eventually found it. It help put an ending to my doubts and misunderstanding of what had happened with the bullet.
Yes the 135gr Corbon did more than i could have asked for. I guess an exit would have been nice. Yet i realize the bullet was not designed for penetration. It did rather do exactly as it was designed to. Inside the goodies basket was pure MOOOOOSH!!!!.






I use XS BigDot. I love them. Very accurate when i take my time with them. Yet serve even better by the bedside!

Well that is my STOCK G20 and FACTORY ammo story for all of you. Even though i will no longer be using the Corbon 135gr JHP for deer. Ill take performance like that anytime! I've since developed a 180gr XTP handload from my 6" LW barrel that i am really liking. Ended up settling for a little lower velocity than i was expecting but wow is it accurate! I'll report on that load this coming season from the G20 and the Mech Tech CCU.

[Harleycolt]

Thats a very good report. Now is that 135 grain loan the hunting load they offer?

[sqlbullet]

I am working up 135 grain loads now based on the Nosler JHP.  Appreciate the report.

[Yondering]

Good stuff!

I'm interested to know more about your MechTech. I have one in 45/1911 that has been excellent, but was thinking of buying another in 10mm/Glock flavor. Are you happy with yours?

[nickE10mm]

Although I'd never use the 135 for whitetail hunting, I KNOW FOR A FACT that they are devastating in targets and melons alike.  Like a bomb going off.   I like the WFNGC at high speed for deer, but anything 180gr and up would probably be fine and, as you and a few others have shown, the lighter 10mm stuff works okay, too!  Placement is everything!

Good job and thanks for the report!

[REDLINE]

Nice deer.  And, good that you've shown a great example of the capability of the 135gr Nolser bullet that is capable of much more than most will give it credit for, as they generally have no clue what they're talking about, basing their claims on assumption.

[justin10mm]

Yup, nothing like a little real world evidence to shut the naysayers up.

That doe is bigger than some of our bucks down here, good job.

[DEGOLDCUP]

Good stuff and congratulation.

[The_Shadow]

Congrats, good report!  Should be some good eating!   

[MichiGun Hunter]

Thanks to all who replied. She has been some good eating no doubt!

Not sure if it is thier "hunting" round or not. Dont think it is. They are just "high velocity" Corbons. Purple and black box.

Just got back in from a two week bear hunt in the UP. Had no computer to respond. We did get one bear in our group, unfortunately it wasnt me, BUT it was with the 10mm... I will soon post the pics and report for that as well. For now, it was about 30 feet in a tree, one shot!

[Vice]

Very nice report.  Thanks for sharing. 

[Blueraja]

I'm not too certain, but that seems like a lot of frag. How difficult was it to remove all of the frag?

It sounds like the 180 grain might work out better for you. Nice deer, btw.

[MichiGun Hunter]

personally i thought it was more frag than i like to see. I had never seen it like that on any game i have ever harvested. The chest cavity was full of it! looked like i had hit gold. Hence my move to handloaded 180gr XTPs. Although i will take performance like that any day, its hard to say anything could have done a better job when they drop to mother earth like she did. Drop dead is drop dead where i come from. No matter hole/bullet size/weight.

thanks all!

[Ramjet]

Dumb question here and  apologize in advance if it is but the fragments may have been bone fragments as well?

Nice handgun deer congrats on your success.

[Big50DEP]

New here, But wanted to say for hunting with my G20 I installed a Wolf Barrel and comp, with a Burris Fastfire II. Works great! I also use the Berrys 180gr Plated hollow points loaded with 11gr Blue dot(max load duplicate at your own risk) Have shot Lg Michigan white-tailed deer @ 60 paces with complete pass throughs.