Wounded Bear & the .41-cal; Jackets, velocity & Hard-Cast... the retrieval effort

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Glad this resurfaced. I missed it the first time around...

[murf205]

Ranchman, do your friend who owns the 250 Savage a favor and load him some Barnes Triple Shocks for that rifle. I sure am not going to tell a man to stop using his favorite rifle because it is too small because I have a favorite or 2 of my own and I fully understand but those triple shocks will not blow up and fail to penetrate. Great story btw, glad it turned out without either of you getting bit.

[GLynn41]

Ranchman is the 237 K you used from a NOE mold? I have decided to get one for my self.
I have a 255 gr lwngc and for a boar hunt I got it to 1300 ish in a 5.5 Rhawk .41. Except for when I shot the edge of a mountain bench, 1st shot, the other three shots were all pass throughs. The first shot hit his right front leg and on into heart area after making a fist size hole in the edge of the bench. He bled a lot but his hair absorbed most all of it. This bullet has a .33 meplat and makes big holes in hide and hair. He was very Russian and weighed 274 #. I think if your 237 was from an NOE mold it has a .31 meplat. Nice shootin Tex, well written.

[ranchman]

Ranchman is the 237 K you used from a NOE mold? I have decided to get one for my self.
I have a 255 gr lwngc and for a boar hunt I got it to 1300 ish in a 5.5 Rhawk .41. Except for when I shot the edge of a mountain bench, 1st shot, the other three shots were all pass throughs. The first shot hit his right front leg and on into heart area after making a fist size hole in the edge of the bench. He bled a lot but his hair absorbed most all of it. This bullet has a .33 meplat and makes big holes in hide and hair. He was very Russian and weighed 274 #. I think if your 237 was from an NOE mold it has a .31 meplat. Nice shootin Tex, well written.

The 237 is an NOE, and the meplat is .310" yes. More recently I-too stepped up to a 255gr bullet (but a WFN, not lwngc) that just like yours has got a .330" meplat too, it's also from NOE.

[GLynn41]

Ranch I have that 255 NOE already with the hp pins. It is a very good shooter.

[maxfam]

I love the 41 magnum, very under appreciated.