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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Standbanger]
#2405814
02/12/18 04:24 PM
02/12/18 04:24 PM
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 2,773 Florida
jacannon
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 2,773
Florida
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I can't remember when I last killed a deer with factory ammo. Had to be sometime in the early 70s.
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Standbanger]
#2406191
02/12/18 09:38 PM
02/12/18 09:38 PM
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Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 1,552 Elmore County
treemydog
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 1,552
Elmore County
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My did great as well. I got a 85 lb doe with a 63gr sierra semi-point out of my 222 Rem. Ran 50 yards with nothing in her chest but a chunky red soup.
You gonna pull them pistols, or whistle Dixie?
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Standbanger]
#2406400
02/13/18 06:14 AM
02/13/18 06:14 AM
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Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 2,459 Mississippi
riflenut
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 2,459
Mississippi
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Never have any issues with my reloads. Killed 2 with the rifle this year. 1st with a 7'08 using 140 gr gamekings, ran about 20 yards and piled up. 2nd was from a 308 shooting a 150 gr interlock, fell where it stood. Also killed a hog and a coyote with that same 308. Took the top of the hogs skull off and disemboweled the coyote.
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
"I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers." George Mason
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Standbanger]
#2406811
02/13/18 02:24 PM
02/13/18 02:24 PM
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,850 Dothan/Hartford,Al
87dixieboy
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,850
Dothan/Hartford,Al
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performed flawlessly as they always do. The only deer I killed was with my 25-06 hand loads.
Only accurate rifles are interesting.
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: fladeerhntr]
#2407131
02/13/18 07:11 PM
02/13/18 07:11 PM
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,928 Opelika
olemossy
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,928
Opelika
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Mine did great with the one 8 point I shot. Was shooting my 7 mag with handloaded 140 accubonds. He fell right where he was standing. Have shot several deer over the last 4 years with this combo and have been really happy with it. Just bought a model 70 extreme weather in 7mm-08 a few weeks ago and am looking forward to seeing how the 140 accubond performs out of it. I bet that action on the model 70 extreme weather is smooth as silk. I have had my eye on one that is a .308.
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Standbanger]
#2407235
02/13/18 08:41 PM
02/13/18 08:41 PM
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Joined: Jun 2016
Posts: 8,931 Between the coosa and cahaba
!shiloh!
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jun 2016
Posts: 8,931
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I only killed one with rifle this year but I've killed a bunch in the last decade with 165 gr ttsx/ tsx 56gr H4350 out of 30-06. straight poison ! I'm fixing to start working up a tsx load in 223 for my ar . Hopefully split a few pig's wigs.
ggg
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: olemossy]
#2407286
02/13/18 09:22 PM
02/13/18 09:22 PM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,826 Sneads, Florida
fladeerhntr
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,826
Sneads, Florida
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Mine did great with the one 8 point I shot. Was shooting my 7 mag with handloaded 140 accubonds. He fell right where he was standing. Have shot several deer over the last 4 years with this combo and have been really happy with it. Just bought a model 70 extreme weather in 7mm-08 a few weeks ago and am looking forward to seeing how the 140 accubond performs out of it. I bet that action on the model 70 extreme weather is smooth as silk. I have had my eye on one that is a .308. It is definently the smoothest action I have ever seen. The only thing I've got that is pretty close is a model 700 BDL in 243 that was bought back around year 2000. If I were you and I'd found one in 308 for a good price I wouldn't hesitate buying it.
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Standbanger]
#2414267
02/21/18 09:50 AM
02/21/18 09:50 AM
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Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,157 B'ham
Goatkiller
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,157
B'ham
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160 grain Sierra in 7mm Mag over H-1000 running just north of 3,050fps.
I waited until he stepped out in the road and shot him dead where he was standing so I could just pick him up on the way out with the Ranger. Entered through the shoulder broke that side continued on through and broke the exit side shoulder/leg with about a 50 cent piece side exit hole. Blew the whole undercarriage right out from under him. Dead where he was standing.
No bonded bullet necessary.
Last edited by Goatkiller; 02/21/18 09:53 AM.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Standbanger]
#2414292
02/21/18 10:19 AM
02/21/18 10:19 AM
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Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 719 Oxford, Al.
Jotjackson
4 point
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4 point
Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 719
Oxford, Al.
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7mm08- 139 Gn Hornady SST pushed by 39 grains of Varget powder. I have used this load for several years with success. TC Encore, Browning A-Bolt, Ruger American rifles. All shoot 1/2 - 3/4 inch groups at 100 yards. Works for me.
Jerry W. Jackson
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Jotjackson]
#2414397
02/21/18 12:28 PM
02/21/18 12:28 PM
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Posts: 6,723 Selma
odocoileus
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 6,723
Selma
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7mm08- 139 Gn Hornady SST pushed by 39 grains of Varget powder. I have used this load for several years with success. TC Encore, Browning A-Bolt, Ruger American rifles. All shoot 1/2 - 3/4 inch groups at 100 yards. Works for me. 39gr? That’s 2 grains under starting load. I’m sure it is a cream puff to shoot. Any particular reason for the light load? No hating just curious. Sure it would be a great load for recoil sensitive shooters.
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: Goatkiller]
#2414449
02/21/18 01:15 PM
02/21/18 01:15 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 18,025 North AL
AU338MAG
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 18,025
North AL
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160 grain Sierra in 7mm Mag over H-1000 running just north of 3,050fps.
I waited until he stepped out in the road and shot him dead where he was standing so I could just pick him up on the way out with the Ranger. Entered through the shoulder broke that side continued on through and broke the exit side shoulder/leg with about a 50 cent piece side exit hole. Blew the whole undercarriage right out from under him. Dead where he was standing.
No bonded bullet necessary.
Sierra GK's are often overlooked because they are not modern bonded plastic tip bullets. But they will shred a deers innards, and deliver some of the fastest kills. DRT And not even a few legs kicks. I use a 180 grain GK in one of my 300 win magnums at 3050 FPS and deer do not walk away.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
Molon Labe
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: !shiloh!]
#2414793
02/21/18 08:00 PM
02/21/18 08:00 PM
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 22,672 Morgan Co.
Dixiepatriot
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 22,672
Morgan Co.
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I'm fixing to start working up a tsx load in 223 for my ar . Hopefully split a few pig's wigs. Thinking the same thing. Keep us updated.
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Re: Handload's This Season
[Re: AU338MAG]
#2415451
02/22/18 11:12 AM
02/22/18 11:12 AM
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Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,157 B'ham
Goatkiller
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,157
B'ham
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160 grain Sierra in 7mm Mag over H-1000 running just north of 3,050fps.
I waited until he stepped out in the road and shot him dead where he was standing so I could just pick him up on the way out with the Ranger. Entered through the shoulder broke that side continued on through and broke the exit side shoulder/leg with about a 50 cent piece side exit hole. Blew the whole undercarriage right out from under him. Dead where he was standing.
No bonded bullet necessary.
Sierra GK's are often overlooked because they are not modern bonded plastic tip bullets. But they will shred a deers innards, and deliver some of the fastest kills. DRT And not even a few legs kicks. I use a 180 grain GK in one of my 300 win magnums at 3050 FPS and deer do not walk away. No joke I shoot the same in .300 WBY. I've just never had all these problems with a pass through such as others seem to have... and I've never shot a lot of bonded bullets at Whitetails. I'm just shooting Sierra's most of the time. I read all these posts on every forum on the internet about needing bonded bullets, etc. Sometimes they have me even second guessing myself and I think I should go work up a better load with a Partition or something. Then I shoot a deer and blow the whole front undercarriage out from under it and I'm sitting there dressing it thinking how could everyone else be having the issues they are having?
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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