texasnative46
03-09-2013, 03:32 PM
BUT I'm posting it here for now.
IF this is the wrong forum, feel free to move it to a more appropriate place.
(As long as you tell me where it is relocated.)
Does anyone know if a stock Remington .35Whelen barrel, with it's one in 16" twist, will stabalize the long, roundnose, 300grain cast bullets like the one on the current group buy?
(I have never tried cast bullets in this "new to me" 22inch barreled rifle, but given the current "highway robbery price" of JSP 250grain factory ammo, I would like to work up a suitable homebrew load for WT, large hogs, "exotics" & elk, which is at least equal to the old "Super Speed" 38-55 load of my grandfather's era. - The "Super Speed" load was a 260 grain bullet at about 1850FPS & my grandfather didn't kill more than about a hundred deer, several black bears & an elk with that rifle/load over 5-6 decades.)
Fwiw, that 300grain RN bullet, in the group buy, looks like A KILLER to me.
NOTE: My "mixmaster" (1930s SAAD rebuilt) P-17 "American Enfield", which was origonally a 30.06, was "reamed out" by the British Home Guard during WWII to accept .311 British bullets (and "re-imported" to the USA by a former USA officer) & I have never felt "undergunned" in the TX deer woods with a 220grain GC cast bullet out of it. - Oddly enough that "cheap old rifle" is the MOST accurate of all my HP rifles. - Passing strange, eh?
(I'd guess that one could call it a 7.7x63mm.)
THANKS for reading this post.
yours, TN46
San Antonio, TX
IF this is the wrong forum, feel free to move it to a more appropriate place.
(As long as you tell me where it is relocated.)
Does anyone know if a stock Remington .35Whelen barrel, with it's one in 16" twist, will stabalize the long, roundnose, 300grain cast bullets like the one on the current group buy?
(I have never tried cast bullets in this "new to me" 22inch barreled rifle, but given the current "highway robbery price" of JSP 250grain factory ammo, I would like to work up a suitable homebrew load for WT, large hogs, "exotics" & elk, which is at least equal to the old "Super Speed" 38-55 load of my grandfather's era. - The "Super Speed" load was a 260 grain bullet at about 1850FPS & my grandfather didn't kill more than about a hundred deer, several black bears & an elk with that rifle/load over 5-6 decades.)
Fwiw, that 300grain RN bullet, in the group buy, looks like A KILLER to me.
NOTE: My "mixmaster" (1930s SAAD rebuilt) P-17 "American Enfield", which was origonally a 30.06, was "reamed out" by the British Home Guard during WWII to accept .311 British bullets (and "re-imported" to the USA by a former USA officer) & I have never felt "undergunned" in the TX deer woods with a 220grain GC cast bullet out of it. - Oddly enough that "cheap old rifle" is the MOST accurate of all my HP rifles. - Passing strange, eh?
(I'd guess that one could call it a 7.7x63mm.)
THANKS for reading this post.
yours, TN46
San Antonio, TX