Recent content by MSANTAQUIN

Speaking about Great expansion of bullet tips ,One of the best wound channel I ever experienced was on a Elk hunt in the fall of 2011 . My friend of many years ,and I woke up to 2.5 feet of snow . We started our journey to the top of a back buster hill about 1.5 miles vertical. Upon cresting the...

Is there a advantage to shooting a bonded bullet over a soft point or core lockt bullet for greater expansion /bullet re tension ? I have had luck with factory core lockt bullets on many elk however when I started to reload ammo it seemed to be a better fit to move to a bonded bullet.

I have decided to go on a black bear hunt in Alaska for the 2nd time I was not successful either hunts I attribute the second trip failure to bullet malfunction . I loaded a 180 grn Hornady SST bullet 93 grn. H1000 powder ,which should have been traveling 3150 fps. However when the bullet hit...