CraigC
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Good jacketed hunting bullets are a more modern invention. The early jacketed bullets were terrible. Not much better than the swaged bullets they replaced. Either is supplanted by a good cast SWC.
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wheelgunslinger
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and before that iron, bronze, and stone.
HankR
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Thanks all. I've bitten enough pellets in birds that I should have realized it wouldn't be a problem. I was thinking the small, unseen, chunks would be worse then the pellets that would hopefully be spit out..
Vern Humphrey
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Modern bullets are very good indeed. But going back to the .303 Enfield with the original 215 grain bullet, or the .30-40 Krag with the 220 grain bullet (both at around 2,000 fps) we find rifles and bullets that were perfectly balanced -- many an elk, moose and even grizzley in America (and many a lion, tiger, leopard and heavier game in Africa and India) fell to those old, long, heavy, slow cup-and-core bullets.
With the development of high velocity cartridges, the old cup-and-core design sometimes failed, but even today it still works quite well in more moderate cartridges.
wildcatter109
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It is a fact today the best hunting bullets are hard cast! Period. The heavy hardcast flat point bullet is the preferred slug of most big game and dangerous game hunters in places like Alaska and Africa. I load nothing but in my revolvers I hunt with. John Linebaugh explains in his words how once you get over 45 caliber and run heavy slugs for penetration at modest velocities, the lead bullet when proper cast out penetrates all but solid metal bullets and at 1/2" you dont want any more expansion as that will only cost you less penetration. High power rifle hunters are after 1/2" expansion but get less penetration because of the light weight. Cast boolits the same weight as Jackets can be pushed faster with lower pressures, I can go on and on, under 1500 FPS and near or over 45 cal. Lead boolits are SUPERIOR! PERIOD. PROVEN OVER AND OVER. and the 250 grain cast slugs at 850 fps or more will take any whitetail with a boiler room shot even at 100 yards or more. Use the best money will buy, use hard cast of the weight you choose.
CraigC
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We're not talking about rifle bullets, that's another matter entirely. We're talking about sixgun bullets and the notion that you could actually take big game with a handgun had to mature before the industry would develop good jacketed bullets.
There is no denying that and 90% of what I use is cast bullets.
Scipio Africanus
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What everyone else has said.
A 250-300 grain bullet at 800-950 fps, placed correctly, will kill any dear very dead in a hurry.
I'd go with a 250 @ 900+ over the 300. You really do not need the extra weight and 250-260 cast bullets penetrate like crazy. The Hornady 250 gr XTP bullet is a great choice for this application.
Good luck hunting!
A 250-300 grain bullet at 800-950 fps, placed correctly, will kill any dear very dead in a hurry.
I'd go with a 250 @ 900+ over the 300. You really do not need the extra weight and 250-260 cast bullets penetrate like crazy. The Hornady 250 gr XTP bullet is a great choice for this application.
Good luck hunting!
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