Another Burger Bear Bites the Boolit

[Outpost75]

Am curious about how well the HP cast bullet penetrated. Did it break up or mushroom and hold together?

I take it it didn't exit the bear? I use a similar load in my .303 No.4.

[Markopolo]

unfortunately it did exit the bear.. destroyed the spine and kept going. it was over. i have yet to recover a bullet loaded that way, but by the look of the wound channel, it was fairly expanded... there were also no fragments of the bullet that I saw in the wound. i have killed several deer and bears with that boolit, and just love the mould... mostly its bigger then what is needed for our small deer and young bears.. but if a bigger bear gets pushy, it is just the thing... nothing like being prepared... it does make quite a hole.

[siamese4570]

How fast are you pushing that boolit? Just read an article in hand loader about the 303 savage. Sounds pretty close.
Siamese4570

[osteodoc08]

Fantastic!

As an aside, any idea of the velocity and and recovers boolits?

[pworley1]

Looks like a great day.

[Markopolo]

osteodoc, I am pretty sure I am running around 1800fps with the hollow point version and 31g of varget. with the solid 311299 and 35gr of varget I was running 2100k ish according to my notes. i chronoed them a couple years ago when I first got the solid mould, but wasnt in the sweet spot for my setup. ok accuracy at that speed. when I slowed the HP version down to 31g of varget, that was the magic number. my alloy for hunting around here is 50-50 ww and dead soft into ingots, then 50 of that to 50 range lead for final boolits with enough tin to get good fill.. not very hard. pretty decent alloy and helps me streach my ww and pure lead supply with range lead. everything goes farther that way.

marko

[osteodoc08]

1800 FPS seems to be a prettt consistent number for good accuracy. Certainly others have pushed the envelope successfully......if y’all remember the 30 XCB experiment, but realistically for me, 1800 seems to be a pretty good number.

[Markopolo]

there just is no need to go faster really.. 1800 fps x 196g boolit = dead animal.. shot placement is always something, but a shoulder shot or a lung shot are nice hi precentage shots on a bear, and unless the animal is very close like this one was, the high precentage shot is what to aim at.. and I have a dog that tracks.. but with a shoulder shot, the bear generally stops right there, and maybe trashes around a bit but aint going far.. that boolit is always a pass through on even a shoulder shot with a young bear... can we say Face Plant???

[Ramjet-SS]

Nice I am big fan of that boolit.