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JimP:
.... fergot Eldest's 30/30...... got several recipes for that one, too.
Rule#.308:
On my little Marlin 36 (20" barrel) I have been getting some pretty nice groups with a 150 gr. bullet, 33.5 grains of Winchester 748 and a Federal 210 primer.
JimP:
Best 30/30 load for Eldest's rifle to date: 150 gr Hornady RN ahead of 35.0 grains of H335 and a WLR primer = acceptable accuracy, and an average muzzle velocity of 2432 f/sec
I have a 170 gr. Nosler Partition load that was a lesson in overpenetration: at 2200 f/sec, that bullet will go in the front shoulder of a button buck and exit the opposite REAR quarter, without slowing the deer down a whole lot..... I tracked it in the snow a couple of hundred yards and shot it quartering away and and again the bullet traversed the deer's anatomy lengthwise without putting it on the ground immediately........ I quit trying to take out shoulders after that, and went to softer bullets in the lungs.......... less wasted meat.
Rule#.308:
The Nosler was just the opposite for me. I shot a nice 11 point this year with my .308 and Nosler Partition 150 grain. I hit him about 8" to 10" below his back bone and behind his shoulder cutting the tops of his lungs. On the inside the bullet passed about an inch or two below his spinal column and the shock of the expanding partition dropped him in his tracks. He never took a step. He tried to get up one time then flopped back down. He was only 90 or so yards away and he was dead and bled out by the time I got to him. The exit wound was a little bigger than a silver dollar. No wasted meat at all even his heart and liver were in one piece.
JimP:
I have gone back to conventional soft points...... in fact, I like Sierra GK's (about the softest out there!) for my .270: on shots under 50 yards, the bullet comes apart inside the chest cavity (Not even getting to the diaphram on frontal shots) and puts em right down, and still expands reliably (while holding together) at 500 yards.
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