hunting boolits

[wgr]

I was thinking about hunting and what you guys use. I have some cast boolits in20:1 alloy . do you think it should be softer say 30 are 40:1 ?

[montana_charlie]

Are they paper patch bullets ... ?

[bigted]

it does make the difference as charlie asks. the paper patch isolates the projectile from the barrel steel. hence the boolit substance can be very much softer then a greeser as the paper isolates the lead from the barrel so the leading is cut almost non-existant and if your paper is thick enough then the leading from pure lead will be non-existant.

the soft pure lead or maybe just a bit harder is spose to be the very best in action when it hits flesh n bone. it gives great penetration and opens in a mushroom efect to cause the best of wound channels....PLUS it holds together and sheds almost none of the weight while doing this.

[wgr]

yes its pp

[powderburnerr]

the softer the better with pp for hunting on this contenant,

[Lead pot]

[smilie=f: Naw there going to BOOOOO them till they fall

[pdawg_shooter]

Pure soft lead works well up to around 2200/2250 fps. After that you need a bit harder lead to shoot well and preform well on game. ACWW works great to around 2600 fps.

[Nobade]

:smile: Since this is the black powder room, I guess hitting more than 2200 fps is not going to be a problem.

But yeah, 20:1 or softer will work great.

[mehavey]

I'm running pure lead/PP in my Sharps Express rifle.
In fact that's what it likes more than anything else.

[1874Sharps]

WGR,

For BP velocities I agree with the other posters that pure lead or soft alloy is totally adequate. For shooting high velocity smokeless PP at 2600+ fps in my experience you will need a boolit about as hard as you can get it. I shot a mule deer with a 7.5 Swiss PP at around 50 yards with such a boolit and it expanded to over twice its diameter and it retainded 80% of its weight.