348 Winchester with spit nose cast boolit

[jwhite]

After a previous attempt with split nose boolits (foil strips place in molds prior to pouring) i decided to give it another try. Years ago I had shot a small buck with split nose boolits out of a 7.62x39 and while I got the deer I had not been impressed with its performance. This time around I used my Browning model 71 with a 220gr LBT lfn running about 1900fps and it worked like a champ! Maybe a bit too good, really did a number on the onside shoulder. 121159121160121161121162

[timspawn]

Very nice. Looks like beautiful country too.

[MT Gianni]

Nice deer, I am not sure the 348 needed a split nose to put it down. It looks like a rib got centered which will blow a lot of bone out, increasing the wound channel also. The exit hole looks nice and round. I understand a split nose usually shears off, did you see any evidence of that? High lung shot should have split it before it got to the ribs.
Congratulations on a nice buck with cast.

[jwhite]

You are correct about the 348 not needing a split nose boolit but it was not done out of need but more of a desire to see how well it would work. I have also used soft nosed cast boolits in the 348 and these work very well too. I will post some pictures later of the boolits I used.
Jerry

[richhodg66]

Doesn't get any better than that; good animal, fine weapon and ammo you developed and made yourself. Congratulations.

[richhodg66]

Do you guys not have snow up there yet? I would have guessed some had fallen that far north by now.

[jwhite]

We had about 6" of snow last weekend but it is all gone now. Where I am on the coast the seawater temp moderates the air temp quite a bit and we don't get the extreme snow they get in norther maine

[jwhite]

Here is the boolit I used121226121227

[firefly1957]

I have cast 44 magnum bullets that way instead of foil i used heavy paper they worked well on vermin but i never shot a deer with them.

[taco650]

348 Win on deer? Looks like it worked just fine! Congrats!

[Maineboy]

Nice deer and nice deer rifle! Congratulations!