Need help with bullet choice
07-08-2008, 07:26 PM
#61
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RE: Need help with bullet choice
Sure, tell that to the boys who settled the west,along with the hunters of the east.
Reading is fine, but the true test is when you actually pick up that weapon with a certain projectile and do it your self.
PRB kills just fine for me.
Jesh, Now it looks like i have to start shooting animals with round ball to show that they can kill
Reading is fine, but the true test is when you actually pick up that weapon with a certain projectile and do it your self.
PRB kills just fine for me.
Jesh, Now it looks like i have to start shooting animals with round ball to show that they can kill
07-08-2008, 07:56 PM
#62
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Need help with bullet choice
ORIGINAL: frontier gander
Sure, tell that to the boys who settled the west,along with the hunters of the east.
Reading is fine, but the true test is when you actually pick up that weapon with a certain projectile and do it your self.
PRB kills just fine for me.
Jesh, Now it looks like i have to start shooting animals with round ball to show that they can kill
Sure, tell that to the boys who settled the west,along with the hunters of the east.
Reading is fine, but the true test is when you actually pick up that weapon with a certain projectile and do it your self.
PRB kills just fine for me.
Jesh, Now it looks like i have to start shooting animals with round ball to show that they can kill
Best Wishes,
Chap
07-08-2008, 08:00 PM
#63
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RE: Need help with bullet choice
probably because you didnt use the 3 pellet load.
we all have our share of good and bad. look at my luck with powerbelts VS 2 lost deer with maxiballs.
More than likely will be using my new .54 mountain rifle this year on elk.
we all have our share of good and bad. look at my luck with powerbelts VS 2 lost deer with maxiballs.
More than likely will be using my new .54 mountain rifle this year on elk.
07-08-2008, 09:31 PM
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RE: Need help with bullet choice
If you watch it run and get an good idea where it went, you can very well have a good chance at finding it. A deer with a bullet through the chest isnt going very far.
Im sure chap did his best at looking for the deer.
Im sure chap did his best at looking for the deer.
07-09-2008, 05:23 AM
#67
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RE: Need help with bullet choice
ORIGINAL: Underclocked
With no blood trail and a large herd of deer in the area - they certainly can be tough to follow.
With no blood trail and a large herd of deer in the area - they certainly can be tough to follow.
07-09-2008, 06:10 AM
#68
Typical Buck
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RE: Need help with bullet choice
I'm pretty much a novice on ML, but I know my handloaded .450 Marlin 300 grain Nosler Partitions perform excellent in virtually all conditions and ranges (6 yds to 127 yds) on the whitetails I hunt. So I thought, if I have a sabot for that .458 bullet, that should be an awesome hunting load.
With Cayugad and Sabotloaders assistance, they lead me to the orange MMP sabots and recommended 100 grains of T7 2f. I went to the range and never looked back since. I shoot them from a T/C Encore 209x50. They are as accurate as I can be, usually 1-1.5" at 100 yds, with an overlapping hole or twoif I'm really shooting good that day.
Sure Noslers are expensive, but they are worth it. To save $$$$, I will typically go buy a cheaper bullet in 300 gr. to sight in my rifle, then fine tune it with the Noslers. It saves Noslers for the woods as much as possible. I am going to do a ML hunt in Illinois for the first time this year and it will be my bullet of choice.
With Cayugad and Sabotloaders assistance, they lead me to the orange MMP sabots and recommended 100 grains of T7 2f. I went to the range and never looked back since. I shoot them from a T/C Encore 209x50. They are as accurate as I can be, usually 1-1.5" at 100 yds, with an overlapping hole or twoif I'm really shooting good that day.
Sure Noslers are expensive, but they are worth it. To save $$$$, I will typically go buy a cheaper bullet in 300 gr. to sight in my rifle, then fine tune it with the Noslers. It saves Noslers for the woods as much as possible. I am going to do a ML hunt in Illinois for the first time this year and it will be my bullet of choice.
07-09-2008, 06:05 PM
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RE: Need help with bullet choice
ORIGINAL: formula1
I'm pretty much a novice on ML, but I know my handloaded .450 Marlin 300 grain Nosler Partitions perform excellent in virtually all conditions and ranges (6 yds to 127 yds) on the whitetails I hunt. So I thought, if I have a sabot for that .458 bullet, that should be an awesome hunting load.
With Cayugad and Sabotloaders assistance, they lead me to the orange MMP sabots and recommended 100 grains of T7 2f. I went to the range and never looked back since. I shoot them from a T/C Encore 209x50. They are as accurate as I can be, usually 1-1.5" at 100 yds, with an overlapping hole or twoif I'm really shooting good that day.
Sure Noslers are expensive, but they are worth it. To save $$$$, I will typically go buy a cheaper bullet in 300 gr. to sight in my rifle, then fine tune it with the Noslers. It saves Noslers for the woods as much as possible. I am going to do a ML hunt in Illinois for the first time this year and it will be my bullet of choice.
I'm pretty much a novice on ML, but I know my handloaded .450 Marlin 300 grain Nosler Partitions perform excellent in virtually all conditions and ranges (6 yds to 127 yds) on the whitetails I hunt. So I thought, if I have a sabot for that .458 bullet, that should be an awesome hunting load.
With Cayugad and Sabotloaders assistance, they lead me to the orange MMP sabots and recommended 100 grains of T7 2f. I went to the range and never looked back since. I shoot them from a T/C Encore 209x50. They are as accurate as I can be, usually 1-1.5" at 100 yds, with an overlapping hole or twoif I'm really shooting good that day.
Sure Noslers are expensive, but they are worth it. To save $$$$, I will typically go buy a cheaper bullet in 300 gr. to sight in my rifle, then fine tune it with the Noslers. It saves Noslers for the woods as much as possible. I am going to do a ML hunt in Illinois for the first time this year and it will be my bullet of choice.
Best Wishes on your Illinois hunt, I was just asking a friend to day about a Pike County hunt hisson went on last year. What are the ML rules in Illinois?
Best Wishes,
Chap Gleason