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<blockquote data-quote="baydog" data-source="post: 904682" data-attributes="member: 76072"><p>Wow!!..This website has got to be 1 of the best tools in my reloading tool box. A lot of good info out there. And please don't worry about sugar coating anything you want to say .I understand that this ain't one of those sites that you're suppose to get a warm fuzzy feeling after reading a thread, speaking what you really want to say and are thinking.. makes me feel like I really got a answer from the gut!! Wouldn't have it any other way!...So i guess the light bullet thinking on my part goes back to the days from loading the old Remington 6mm..I found that the 100gr bullets really turned that gun into a dog .The 70gr bullets as far as being accurate was what the gun really liked and was most consistent groups but didn't have the knock down power that I was looking for so came up with a happy medium and used the 90gr nosler ballistic tips but also so found out that shooting whitetail deer and putting a bullet in the engine room of a deer didn't work to well. I found my self tracking a lot to find the deer. Thank God i had two good dogs that would rather hunt and track rather than eat!!..They were 2 great dogs and worked as a team. One was a Chesapeake Bay retriever and the other was a Cocker Spaniel that had a nose like you wouldn't believe. I always said the Chesapeake cheated Because the Cocker never looked up she always had her nose to the ground and the Chesapeake would always run up the trail loose scent and come back to find that the Cocker had moved up the trail further until the Chesapeake would eventually stumble across the deer..Thats why I called him a cheater..Then i started neck shooting and things got a lot better. I either flat out missed or they were laying in the tracks they were standing in before i shot. But I like to hunt the woods in the morning and the fields in the evening and found out that after 200 yards that neck of a deer turned into the size of a pencil!! And thats what turned me to a 7mm magnum..I shot a lot of guns in between.. like the 25-06 a 270, .308 which my dad swears by and claim there ain't a better gun but when I finally came across the Remington Sendero 7mm magnum, that was the beginning of the Sendero and the 7 mag for me. I could put 1 in the engine room and still find them without a lot of tracking,.. neck shoot and drop them like a rock. This is also what has turned me now to the 300 RUM i'm finding that in the evenings field hunting the average shot starts at 200 yards and probably goes up to 500 yards at the most. So being 50 years old now I find that I just can't see like i could 10 years ago so on longer shots especially when i look up and see big horns on a deer and get all nervered up i find myself going down for the brown and putting 1 in the engine room instead of trying for the neck at 200 yards or more, engine room is a much easier target and again thats where i'm hoping the 300 RUM will step up and still bring them down where they stand. The white tail deer is the strongest animal we have here on the Eastern Shore of Va. I am amazed sometimes just how tough of a animal they actually are and what it does take to make a quick and humane kill. As far as the reloading part goes i think i need to get out of the smaller caliber state of mind and jump into the big boy guns. I think what I'm hearing and trying to understand about the bullet weight is that a lighter bullet comes out of the barrel balls to the wall but looses it's momentum sooner than a heavier weight bullet does. I'm trying to understand this in knuclehead terms and this is how this knucklehead understands it...if a little rock starts rolling down a hill and stops without and obstructions, then you roll a larger rock down the same hill the larger rock is going to roll further down the hill because of the momentum the bigger and heavier rock has...is that sort of kinda right??..I've just got to find a rock that my gun likes best and powder amount which would be the energy used to roll the rock down the hill...Sorry about the knucklehead Hillbilly story but this is who I am and how I can understand it..lightbulb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baydog, post: 904682, member: 76072"] Wow!!..This website has got to be 1 of the best tools in my reloading tool box. A lot of good info out there. And please don't worry about sugar coating anything you want to say .I understand that this ain't one of those sites that you're suppose to get a warm fuzzy feeling after reading a thread, speaking what you really want to say and are thinking.. makes me feel like I really got a answer from the gut!! Wouldn't have it any other way!...So i guess the light bullet thinking on my part goes back to the days from loading the old Remington 6mm..I found that the 100gr bullets really turned that gun into a dog .The 70gr bullets as far as being accurate was what the gun really liked and was most consistent groups but didn't have the knock down power that I was looking for so came up with a happy medium and used the 90gr nosler ballistic tips but also so found out that shooting whitetail deer and putting a bullet in the engine room of a deer didn't work to well. I found my self tracking a lot to find the deer. Thank God i had two good dogs that would rather hunt and track rather than eat!!..They were 2 great dogs and worked as a team. One was a Chesapeake Bay retriever and the other was a Cocker Spaniel that had a nose like you wouldn't believe. I always said the Chesapeake cheated Because the Cocker never looked up she always had her nose to the ground and the Chesapeake would always run up the trail loose scent and come back to find that the Cocker had moved up the trail further until the Chesapeake would eventually stumble across the deer..Thats why I called him a cheater..Then i started neck shooting and things got a lot better. I either flat out missed or they were laying in the tracks they were standing in before i shot. But I like to hunt the woods in the morning and the fields in the evening and found out that after 200 yards that neck of a deer turned into the size of a pencil!! And thats what turned me to a 7mm magnum..I shot a lot of guns in between.. like the 25-06 a 270, .308 which my dad swears by and claim there ain't a better gun but when I finally came across the Remington Sendero 7mm magnum, that was the beginning of the Sendero and the 7 mag for me. I could put 1 in the engine room and still find them without a lot of tracking,.. neck shoot and drop them like a rock. This is also what has turned me now to the 300 RUM i'm finding that in the evenings field hunting the average shot starts at 200 yards and probably goes up to 500 yards at the most. So being 50 years old now I find that I just can't see like i could 10 years ago so on longer shots especially when i look up and see big horns on a deer and get all nervered up i find myself going down for the brown and putting 1 in the engine room instead of trying for the neck at 200 yards or more, engine room is a much easier target and again thats where i'm hoping the 300 RUM will step up and still bring them down where they stand. The white tail deer is the strongest animal we have here on the Eastern Shore of Va. I am amazed sometimes just how tough of a animal they actually are and what it does take to make a quick and humane kill. As far as the reloading part goes i think i need to get out of the smaller caliber state of mind and jump into the big boy guns. I think what I'm hearing and trying to understand about the bullet weight is that a lighter bullet comes out of the barrel balls to the wall but looses it's momentum sooner than a heavier weight bullet does. I'm trying to understand this in knuclehead terms and this is how this knucklehead understands it...if a little rock starts rolling down a hill and stops without and obstructions, then you roll a larger rock down the same hill the larger rock is going to roll further down the hill because of the momentum the bigger and heavier rock has...is that sort of kinda right??..I've just got to find a rock that my gun likes best and powder amount which would be the energy used to roll the rock down the hill...Sorry about the knucklehead Hillbilly story but this is who I am and how I can understand it..lightbulb [/QUOTE]
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