Hammers too much fan boy
What was the velocity at impact? Over 1800fps?Hornady eldx. I've recovered too many that acted more like a fmj.
Probably at,.. Sling Shot, Velocity !What was the velocity at impact? Over 1800fps?
To say that with any sort of credibility or authority you would need to have tried every kind of Barnes bullet and be able to quote the particular failures.I'm about to get hate mail! Barnes of any kind.
I may be freaking old but not too old to learn and appreciate recommendations and REMINDERS! I shot their Dead Center many years ago and frankly just dropped the ball staying with them. Good kick in butt to place another order.Muddy with much respect, as I genuinely enjoy and listen to your comments and read with vigor just like others from here. But this is where I may finally can contribute back to you.
2 options.
1. Regular BP rifles. Using BH 209 and the like. Check out these. Dead Center Bullets. By farrrr. The best regular muzzleloing bullet I have ever used. Converted so many locals to these in my area I must be keeping these guys in business. Average tracking Distance has got to be under 5 yards for lots and lots of deer put in my freezer.
2 modern smokeless Muzzleloaders bullets I am kinda of new at it and have only 1 deer so far but give Pittman bullets a try. Impressive is an understatement.
I've had the opposite results with the one rifle I load grand slams for. My Winchester M70 featherweight is a mule deer killing machine with 50 grains of imr 4350 and 145 grain grand slams in 7x57. Far more accurate than me. I've harvested deer from 50 to 500 yards with that load and they never go far and leave a good blood trail, all have been full penetration.Speer Grand Slam. Back in the day I heard how great they were on game. I'll never know since when I was doing load development I could swear I was shooting buckshot.
These my friend I am talking about.I may be freaking old but not too old to learn and appreciate recommendations and REMINDERS! I shot their Dead Center many years ago and frankly just dropped the ball staying with them. Good kick in butt to place another order.
The Nosler 7mm 120 grain BT is one of the best performing bullets ever in its class.I think every specific bullet weight and caliber for a particular design can vary. Many have said in other threads that the 30cal Nosler BT sucked unless it was the 180gr. I have had mixed reviews on SST, but honestly most of that has been with the 6.8spc shooting 120gr. They all killed well but sometimes they fragment, others they expand rapidly and all you find is a jacket under the hid offside and others you have a beautiful mushroom. I think a lot of the performance depends on what you hit and the angle you hit it at. I had a buddy who was fuming mad about a 9mm hp not expanding after being shot thru a car door. One look at it, showed it closed the tip the an angled shot and in no way could it have expanded after that. The design was good it just didn't work well in that situation, however it did penetrate and track true enough, so it did the rest of its job. When it comes to rifle bullets, some varieties are designed for certain rounds (velocity windows) and don't work great when shot by other rounds such as a 300WM vs a 308. One can see where a 308 designed bullet shot in a 300WM might blow up at close range but work wonderfully at longer ranges. If you flip that the 300WM bullet might work ok up close in 308 but at longer distance it doesn't expand as well. That's not a bullet design issue, that's just using it outside of its best velocity window. Packaging often doesn't tell us these velocity windows for a particular bullet so it takes digging or testing to find out what they perform like. Sadly a lot of that testing happens on game, and we see a certain combo didn't work well, and then we right off the entire bullet family as not worth having. Hence why you have seen just about every bullet made mentioned here. Every design can fail, which is why it is up to us to learn what shots to take with certain bullets.
Boo!!!! corlokts!!!I just read all 52 posts and feel like I should go home and throw away all of my bullets. I'm also going to check the freezer and make sure the wildlife is still dead. I have to find some Remington Corelocks, nobody dissed them yet.