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<blockquote data-quote="4ked Horn" data-source="post: 150178" data-attributes="member: 11"><p>You pays yer money and you takes yer chances.</p><p></p><p>We are always pushing for better. What "better means to one hunter may not mean the same to another. </p><p></p><p>I am working on a load for some wildcat bullets that will cost $52/100 (shipping included) simply because some test wildcats cut my groups at 300 yards in half. That just doubled my personal confidence distance on shots on game. I am also paying about twice what I was paying for the bullets I was previously using. Is that worth it to me? Hell yes. I have still not found a good load with these particular wildcats but I still consider the potential to double my effective distance a goal worth persuing, especially because I did not have to change my reloading process one little bit. I'll gladly spend more for these bullets.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand when I do the math on shotgun loads for ducks even if I was guaranteed one duck for each shell the expensive exotic loads they are still more expensive than shooting 4 rounds to get 1 duck using steel. And that is if you get your leads right and the patterns are perfect which mine ain't so I might still get 1 duck for every 2 or 3 shots. There is no possible way I would shoot bismuth or tungston or depleted uranium shot shells unless they were the same cost as steel(which sucks compared with good ol' lead).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="4ked Horn, post: 150178, member: 11"] You pays yer money and you takes yer chances. We are always pushing for better. What "better means to one hunter may not mean the same to another. I am working on a load for some wildcat bullets that will cost $52/100 (shipping included) simply because some test wildcats cut my groups at 300 yards in half. That just doubled my personal confidence distance on shots on game. I am also paying about twice what I was paying for the bullets I was previously using. Is that worth it to me? Hell yes. I have still not found a good load with these particular wildcats but I still consider the potential to double my effective distance a goal worth persuing, especially because I did not have to change my reloading process one little bit. I'll gladly spend more for these bullets. On the other hand when I do the math on shotgun loads for ducks even if I was guaranteed one duck for each shell the expensive exotic loads they are still more expensive than shooting 4 rounds to get 1 duck using steel. And that is if you get your leads right and the patterns are perfect which mine ain't so I might still get 1 duck for every 2 or 3 shots. There is no possible way I would shoot bismuth or tungston or depleted uranium shot shells unless they were the same cost as steel(which sucks compared with good ol' lead). [/QUOTE]
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