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I guess everybody has their own idea about what makes a bullet good. But I saw something last week that made me a little sick.
I took a friend of mine out Antelope hunting here in Northern CO, he just had to use my new R-93 Blaser in .300Wthby. I suggested a nosler partition or an accubond or an X bullet in the 200gr range or in the 180 range loaded down to about 2800 FPS or so.
My buddy being an avid gun-mag reader and having a case of magnumitis deluxe insisted on a maxed out 180gr ballistic silver tip. So I figured what the heck it his goat so I reluctantly loaded up some ballistic tips at about 3200fps for him.
He like many gun-mag advocates asumed that since he was hunting antelope that he'd be shooting at about 3gozillion yards so he'd need the B.C. of the silver tip and it would be slowed down enough not to do too much damage.
On day one he took a shot (against my advice) at over 700 yards and guess what.....Yep you got it he missed clean, like way clean.
On day three we put a sneak on a herd and the buck decided to commit scuicide as they often do dring the rut and upon seeing us lying in the grass at about 300yards decided to come and investigate. This buck ran up to us and pulled up broadside at about 80 yards quartering on to us.
My buddy let fly with my eargasplitenloaden boomer sending this 180gr hypersonic pill into the on shoulder. Well you can probably guess the outcome. On impact I saw fur, blood and assorted clock work spray about 50 yards out the back of this poor deflated goat. Amazingly Mr. Lope turned and ran about 60 yards before pilling up.
When we got to the goat and turned him over he had an exit wound the size of ..... how can I even describe it...... A jagged beach ball sized hole, his whole darn right side was gone from the shoulder to the diaphram. My buddy upon seeing carnage declared "Wow great bullet performance!!"
I have never liked ballistic tips for game hunting unless your using them in a slower caliber like a .308 or an 06. But they are absolutly useless in a high velocity round on anything but stuff you just want to disintigrate. they blow the living H*&l out of smaller game and they don't penetrate worth a darn on heavier game. A complete failure as a hunting bullet in my opinon.
I've said it before and I'll say it now if your going to use a .300 or a 7MM or some other hot rod that's fine but you have to use a good hard controlled expansion bullet. I perfer to use a 200 gr bullet in the .300 or a 180gr X if I'm needing some reach. In either case the bullet ain't going to blow up and the carcass may actually have a few edible parts left on it.
It just amazes me that anyone could call what happened to that poor old goat good bullet performance.
I took a friend of mine out Antelope hunting here in Northern CO, he just had to use my new R-93 Blaser in .300Wthby. I suggested a nosler partition or an accubond or an X bullet in the 200gr range or in the 180 range loaded down to about 2800 FPS or so.
My buddy being an avid gun-mag reader and having a case of magnumitis deluxe insisted on a maxed out 180gr ballistic silver tip. So I figured what the heck it his goat so I reluctantly loaded up some ballistic tips at about 3200fps for him.
He like many gun-mag advocates asumed that since he was hunting antelope that he'd be shooting at about 3gozillion yards so he'd need the B.C. of the silver tip and it would be slowed down enough not to do too much damage.
On day one he took a shot (against my advice) at over 700 yards and guess what.....Yep you got it he missed clean, like way clean.
On day three we put a sneak on a herd and the buck decided to commit scuicide as they often do dring the rut and upon seeing us lying in the grass at about 300yards decided to come and investigate. This buck ran up to us and pulled up broadside at about 80 yards quartering on to us.
My buddy let fly with my eargasplitenloaden boomer sending this 180gr hypersonic pill into the on shoulder. Well you can probably guess the outcome. On impact I saw fur, blood and assorted clock work spray about 50 yards out the back of this poor deflated goat. Amazingly Mr. Lope turned and ran about 60 yards before pilling up.
When we got to the goat and turned him over he had an exit wound the size of ..... how can I even describe it...... A jagged beach ball sized hole, his whole darn right side was gone from the shoulder to the diaphram. My buddy upon seeing carnage declared "Wow great bullet performance!!"
I have never liked ballistic tips for game hunting unless your using them in a slower caliber like a .308 or an 06. But they are absolutly useless in a high velocity round on anything but stuff you just want to disintigrate. they blow the living H*&l out of smaller game and they don't penetrate worth a darn on heavier game. A complete failure as a hunting bullet in my opinon.
I've said it before and I'll say it now if your going to use a .300 or a 7MM or some other hot rod that's fine but you have to use a good hard controlled expansion bullet. I perfer to use a 200 gr bullet in the .300 or a 180gr X if I'm needing some reach. In either case the bullet ain't going to blow up and the carcass may actually have a few edible parts left on it.
It just amazes me that anyone could call what happened to that poor old goat good bullet performance.