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Thread: Would you hunt with this?

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    I thought you has a boolit mould for casting some of these slugs. My mistake.

    Those being hard cast commercial boolits, I agree with Larry and the others, no way I would hunt game with them.
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    If they were all I had, I'd file a 1/4" flat on the nose and hunt away.

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    I would not use for big game, there are so many better molds/designs out there like the Saeco 245 gr. fp, that you could cast and match your alloy to velocity.

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    These bullets are between 16and18 in hardness according to Western bullet company. I just purchased some 280 round nose and 200 gr rcbs boolits from them.

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    What would you be hunting? Typical shot distance ? Expected load velocity?
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    No... if I could cast them myself out of pure lead and push them at fast rifle velocities so i know they would expand... I'd probably try it once. I'm sure they are casted too hard and would be like shooting a field point through a deer

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    shoot yes, hunt no

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    Correct shot placement is what a hunter needs to cleanly harvest game. A gut shot buck is still gut shot with an expanding bullet or not. I like game meat and even jerky made from blood shot meat is no good.
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    I am going to chime in on the OP again
    there are several issues with this bullet for hunting .
    Hard cast , and pointed ...neither is going to give you any expansion and little shock value. probably pencil hole in and out.
    For me personally.... that means most likely a suffering animal... not something I look forward to.
    even a coyote or woodchuck digging around the farm I want dispatched quickly and cleanly
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    I would only shoot this at a game animal if I could guarantee it would enter the ear hole, otherwise no shot.
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    Exactly what I like, pencil hole in-pencil hole out and usually through both lungs and the heart, sometimes just the lungs but always a dead deer with in a few yards, NEVER lost one. I still load jacketed fmj for hunting in 22, 30 and 45 caliber, 22 for head shots only but the other two work fine for lung/heart, that Hornady FMC 220 grain at about 2400 fps out of 06 is a freight train.
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