Cast Bullet Doe

[Boyscout]

Made my 2nd Cast bullet kill yesterday on a nice doe. The performance of the bullet was everything I could have hoped for.

Twenty-nine minutes before sunset a nice doe came in on an overgrown fire trail 60 yards behind my stand. I knew where all of my clear shots were and the range to the trail as I had been in the stand since an hour before daybreak. I had a clear shot and a full-broadside. At the shot she ran about 15 yards and piled up. The bullet, Lyman 44 Devastor, with 21 gn of Win 296, passed through. The exit wound appeared to be about 0.55". Meat loss appears to be minimal as it was a double lung through the rib cage. Rifle: 44 Rem Mag Handi Rifle with Simmons 4x Pro-Diamond scope.

[petroid]

Nice shot and nice doe. Meat for the freezer!

[daniel lawecki]

Good shooting nice doe and with my favorite caliber the .44 mag.

[sharpsguy]

That works. A cast bullet is far and away the most versatile hunting bullet going. Once you get started casting your own and using them you will discover that there is no need to ever buy a bullet again. Congratulations.

[paul s]

Good shooting!

[DW475]

congrats!

[Camba]

Good shooting!

[Viper225]

Nice job

[Huntsman]

Beauty!!
Congrats

[Mark454]

Hey! Nice Doe!

I'm not too far south from you.

[Boyscout]

I got to see a little bit more once I started butchering the doe today. The bullet clipped one shoulder blade and exited the opposite dead center. There were numerous pieces of small lead and massive damage to the shoulder blade. It appears to me that the hollow point expanded, broke up, and the base continued to pass through. The bullet was WW +1% Sn. Too hard or do I need to go softer?

[Silvercreek Farmer]

I'm just impressed you stayed in a stand for around 12 hours. I'm probably only good for 3-4. Mine is just a cheap Wally World stand, what are you using? Congrats on the kill, too!

[Boyscout]

Summit Viper. I also use Hunter's Safety full body harness and their climbing rope with the Prussic knot hook-up.

[petroid]

I got to see a little bit more once I started butchering the doe today. The bullet clipped one shoulder blade and exited the opposite dead center. There were numerous pieces of small lead and massive damage to the shoulder blade. It appears to me that the hollow point expanded, broke up, and the base continued to pass through. The bullet was WW +1% Sn. Too hard or do I need to go softer?

I would ditch the hollow point and just cast flat nose bullets. Try some and test them in some water jugs or wet sand. I think you'll see they expand nicely and stay together well. I tried some 40 cal 180gr TC at about 900fps in sand and they did great. Also 30 cal 170grFN at about 1700fps. After putting down a button buck and a big buck this year with the 30cal flat nose bullets, I am a believer. I want my bullet to stay together even if it doesn't get maximum expansion. I don't want to pick bullet fragments out of the meat and I want it to retain it's mass to penetrate. Even if it doesn't expand on soft tissue, the flat nose does a lot of damage. I shot a 200-250lb buck at 25 yards and the 30 cal boolit made an entrance hole I could put my finger inside and an exit that was an inch long and half inch wide. Destroyed both lungs and he didn't go far. Had it hit shoulder, I would have expected a lot of meat damage, but also would hope the bullet would stay together and punch through.

[Huntsman]

I would ditch the hollow point and just cast flat nose bullets. Try some and test them in some water jugs or wet sand. I think you'll see they expand nicely and stay together well. I tried some 40 cal 180gr TC at about 900fps in sand and they did great. Also 30 cal 170grFN at about 1700fps. After putting down a button buck and a big buck this year with the 30cal flat nose bullets, I am a believer. I want my bullet to stay together even if it doesn't get maximum expansion. I don't want to pick bullet fragments out of the meat and I want it to retain it's mass to penetrate. Even if it doesn't expand on soft tissue, the flat nose does a lot of damage. I shot a 200-250lb buck at 25 yards and the 30 cal boolit made an entrance hole I could put my finger inside and an exit that was an inch long and half inch wide. Destroyed both lungs and he didn't go far. Had it hit shoulder, I would have expected a lot of meat damage, but also would hope the bullet would stay together and punch through.

I planned on using my 30-30 with NOE 165gr FN this year but my shotgun and Lyman GPR won the coin toss. Here's a pic of what the cast boolit (Modified Lyman #2 alloy) does after hitting wt newspaper @ 100 yards. It's the two on the right, the other is a Lee 170gr;

[petroid]

That's what I'm talking about. I don't have a pic but that's what my bullets look like.

[Mark454]

I planned on using my 30-30 with NOE 165gr FN this year but my shotgun and Lyman GPR won the coin toss. Here's a pic of what the cast boolit (Modified Lyman #2 alloy) does after hitting wt newspaper @ 100 yards. It's the two on the right, the other is a Lee 170gr;

That bullet on the right is gorgeous.

[SSGOldfart]

Congrats that is the best eat'n you can get and knowing you made the bullet,or boolits makes it that much better,again congratulations

[tdoyka]

nice shootin!!!

[Boyscout]

I killed a buck with my 35 Remington last year using the RCBS 200gn FN. Terminal results were good. I had feeding problems though in my Remington 740. The only flat nose bullet I have for the 44 Remington Mag is the Lee C429-240-SWC. It also shoots very accurately out of my H&R Handi-Rifle. The Lee C429-300-RFN gives me mediocre results.