Rustystud
Well-Known Member
Everyone is entitiled to his or her I am a firm beleiver that a J4 jacket is alright to be a target and even a hunting for varmints.
One of my customers received his .284 Winchester rifle. We worked up loads between 2875 and 3100fps. My customer shot two deer with his new rifle. The shot was in the open and broadside. The bullet entered the right side behind the shoulder. The entrance would was distinctly larger than the exit wound.
I had two fears:
1. The bullet would blow up before exiting.
2. Or pencil through the deer witha minimum wound channel.
Both deer he shot had the second effect. Blood and lung tissue at the impact site. Little or no blood for the first 25 or 30 yards.
One deer dropped approximately 40 yards and the other deer went 300 plus yards. The entrance and exit wounds were about the size of a nickel. I like knowning with almost every shot that I will have controlled expansion and both an entrance and exit wound.
I beleive that a controlled expansion bullet like the Nosler Accubond or Swift Scirocco offer better and more reliable terminal performance. The partition type and Barnes X bullet also give the shooter more assurance that the bullet will stay together and have both an entrance and exit wound. These controlled expansion bullet may not have higher BC and/or accuracy of the longrange target style bullet. But they will usually shoot sub 1.moa in a good rifle.
Over the last 40 years I have harvested a very large number of deer many for crop depredation. There is nothing more humane than shooting a deer with a 22-250 or 220 swift running a 55 grain bullet at 3800 plus fps . Shooting them below the ear or in the lungs. They go down like they were hit with steam roller dropped from the sky. this was what I was expecting frim the Berger bullets. Real time experience has produced a different result.
To each his own but I beleive in a quick humane harvest.
Nat Lambeth
One of my customers received his .284 Winchester rifle. We worked up loads between 2875 and 3100fps. My customer shot two deer with his new rifle. The shot was in the open and broadside. The bullet entered the right side behind the shoulder. The entrance would was distinctly larger than the exit wound.
I had two fears:
1. The bullet would blow up before exiting.
2. Or pencil through the deer witha minimum wound channel.
Both deer he shot had the second effect. Blood and lung tissue at the impact site. Little or no blood for the first 25 or 30 yards.
One deer dropped approximately 40 yards and the other deer went 300 plus yards. The entrance and exit wounds were about the size of a nickel. I like knowning with almost every shot that I will have controlled expansion and both an entrance and exit wound.
I beleive that a controlled expansion bullet like the Nosler Accubond or Swift Scirocco offer better and more reliable terminal performance. The partition type and Barnes X bullet also give the shooter more assurance that the bullet will stay together and have both an entrance and exit wound. These controlled expansion bullet may not have higher BC and/or accuracy of the longrange target style bullet. But they will usually shoot sub 1.moa in a good rifle.
Over the last 40 years I have harvested a very large number of deer many for crop depredation. There is nothing more humane than shooting a deer with a 22-250 or 220 swift running a 55 grain bullet at 3800 plus fps . Shooting them below the ear or in the lungs. They go down like they were hit with steam roller dropped from the sky. this was what I was expecting frim the Berger bullets. Real time experience has produced a different result.
To each his own but I beleive in a quick humane harvest.
Nat Lambeth
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