First Cast Boolit Buck!

[Ateam]

1985 GBL JM marlin in 45-70. 330gr Gould over 49 grains of varget, alloy was 20-1. Shot was broadside at 40ish yards, recovered the slug against the far side hide. Awesome performance out from the HP, I find it interesting you can see the grains of varget imprinted on the base of the recovered boolit.

[phaessler]

Congratulations !!! He looks awesome, nice shot placement and projectile recovery.

[LAH]

That's good stuff.

[Thumbcocker]

Nicely done sir.

[Tom_in_AZ]

Awesome job, congrats!


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[white eagle]

man what a deer
congrats
aint it fun?

[brown bass hunter]

Isn't it great when you recover one of your slugs. Nice buck congrats!

[ChristopherO]

Wonderful success. With a soft alloy and close range that is performance I would expect. Enough Tin to hold it all together in a near perfect mushroom. Yes, those granules pressed into the base with the initial pressure before igniting themselves.

[Ateam]

I do love recovering the slug, but also like to have two holes for tracking purposes. Hard to have both I guess. This is the fourth Gould slug I have recovered from a deer, but the first one that has not sheared some of its skirt or become very deformed. I should likely slow it down a little, but it is so accurate and performs so dang well, it is hard to mess with. Simmering the skull for a euro mount and butchering now...

[444ttd]

congrats!!!!!!!

all of my deer were thru and thru. the 30-40 krag(165gr rd at 1926fps, 35/30(200gr fn gc at 1720fps), 9.3x57(275gr wfn gc at i forgot the chrony) and the 444(255 gr keith type, 275gr ranch dog, 280gr lfn & wfn gc and the 300gr fn gc it goes from 1600-2200fps). from coww and some tin to lyman #2 with some tin (12ish - 15ish bhn), everyone of them were thru n thru.

[Texas by God]

Big bullet kills big deer! Way to go, nice gun too

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[Smoke4320]

Congrats . makes you smile even more knowing you made the bullet and the load to harvest that deer

[dverna]

I do love recovering the slug, but also like to have two holes for tracking purposes. Hard to have both I guess. This is the fourth Gould slug I have recovered from a deer, but the first one that has not sheared some of its skirt or become very deformed. I should likely slow it down a little, but it is so accurate and performs so dang well, it is hard to mess with. Simmering the skull for a euro mount and butchering now...

Instead of slowing it down, reducing the lead component of the alloy should give you less expansion. Maybe a 16:1 alloy?

Very nice buck BTW!!!

[JDL]

Nice buck Ateam! I've put more game in the freezer with the .45/70 than anything else. I had the same stippling effect on the base, even when I used paper patched bullets.

[marshall623]

Nice Buck

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[Winger Ed.]

It's a great sensation to kill deer with your own home made ammo.

I've killed a few with cast in .30-06 and .45-70---- I didn't harvest them though,
I waited patiently, and when they walked by, I shot & killed 'em.

[CastingFool]

Good job!

[Iwsbull]

Awesomeness

[Cosmic_Charlie]

That had to feel great. Probably nobody to see your big smile.

[Ateam]

That had to feel great. Probably nobody to see your big smile.

Not until I got it back to camp. I was hunting with 4 buddies who were all high fives and hell yeahs. One of them shot a 9 point that morning that was significantly bigger than my 8. Meat in camp and high spirits.