RemingtonMan
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Two years ago I was deciding on what rifle to use on my upcomming Brown Bear hunt, so I went to my local gander mountain to check out what dangerous game rifles they had in stock. They had plenty 300 win mag, 338 win mag, 340 weatherby mag, and even a nice CZ model 550in 458 win mag. But the problem was and is that I am cheap. Being a lawyer has made this way and the fact that I started my life in poverty has made my purse strings tight. However, on the way out of the store I saw a rack of used surplus rifles and I stoped by to take a look. Among the rifles were a No.4 MK.I British Enfield made in Long Branch, outside of Ontario, Canada. The rifle was extreamly clean and was made back in 1949, and the price was right $325.00. So I went home with it, and started to do some reasearch on the rifle, what convinced me was some old pictures of british soldiers in Africa and India with dead game like Lion, Cape Buffalo, Elephant. I thought to myself how can this be a round as under powered as the .303 British taking game as deadly as Cape Buffalo, and Lion- Then my brain started to work.
The .303 British was originally created as a black powder carterage, just like the 45-70 Gov't. How can the 45-70 be used to take Brown Bear as it has for years.
Here is the formula:
I loaded a 215gr. woodleigh PP with RL15 ( I will not say how much because I do not want any one to get hurt) which generated around 2200 FPS.
215 X 2200 FPS = 473000/1000 which gives a Power Factor of 473
The 45-70, breaks down like this
300gr. X 1800 FPS = Power Factor of 540.
It breaks down to this, a big slow moving bullet creates a huge wound channel, therfor makes it fine for dangerous game.
Now think for a minute:
A No.4 MK.I British Enfield has something special!!! It has a 10 Round Magazine. Now a Brown Bear at 150 Yards, 100 Yards, 50 Yards, 25 Yards- and your telling me that I can have 10 rounds of 215gr. bullets going between 2200 and 1880 FPS tearing huge wound channels into a Brown Bear with a Power Factor of 473, now that is stoping power.
yes, I put it to the test. At 123 yds and 2-Shot later I took a 823 pound Brown Bear. My test proved to be true. But please do not take my word for it, try it for yourself. It would also be great for Moose, and Elk, which I plan on doing this year with my cheap dangerous game rifle.
P.S., Excuse my grammer, I do not care about my writing skills when I am on a online forum.
The .303 British was originally created as a black powder carterage, just like the 45-70 Gov't. How can the 45-70 be used to take Brown Bear as it has for years.
Here is the formula:
I loaded a 215gr. woodleigh PP with RL15 ( I will not say how much because I do not want any one to get hurt) which generated around 2200 FPS.
215 X 2200 FPS = 473000/1000 which gives a Power Factor of 473
The 45-70, breaks down like this
300gr. X 1800 FPS = Power Factor of 540.
It breaks down to this, a big slow moving bullet creates a huge wound channel, therfor makes it fine for dangerous game.
Now think for a minute:
A No.4 MK.I British Enfield has something special!!! It has a 10 Round Magazine. Now a Brown Bear at 150 Yards, 100 Yards, 50 Yards, 25 Yards- and your telling me that I can have 10 rounds of 215gr. bullets going between 2200 and 1880 FPS tearing huge wound channels into a Brown Bear with a Power Factor of 473, now that is stoping power.
yes, I put it to the test. At 123 yds and 2-Shot later I took a 823 pound Brown Bear. My test proved to be true. But please do not take my word for it, try it for yourself. It would also be great for Moose, and Elk, which I plan on doing this year with my cheap dangerous game rifle.
P.S., Excuse my grammer, I do not care about my writing skills when I am on a online forum.