Crawdaddy
11-10-2013, 02:32 PM
I bought a Contender and several barrels a couple of months back. It is now time to head to the lease in Texas for a Desert Mulie hunt and I am going to use the Contender.
The problem is, I can't decide on which cartridge or bullet.
I shoot all equally well. All shots will be less than 100 yards in relatively open ground. The one caveat is that a wounded animal could run into Palo Duro Canyon making tracking and retrieval tough.
My choices are
1) 45-70 with cast 430 gr boolits
2). 45-70 with 405 gr swaged boolits
3). 30-30 Ackley Improved with 160 boolits
4) 30-30 Ackley improved with 168 gr J words
All shoot and group well.
What would you use?
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7300/10782729303_3b04db4111_b.jpg
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7304/10782879874_bf9e775c22_b.jpg
The problem is, I can't decide on which cartridge or bullet.
I shoot all equally well. All shots will be less than 100 yards in relatively open ground. The one caveat is that a wounded animal could run into Palo Duro Canyon making tracking and retrieval tough.
My choices are
1) 45-70 with cast 430 gr boolits
2). 45-70 with 405 gr swaged boolits
3). 30-30 Ackley Improved with 160 boolits
4) 30-30 Ackley improved with 168 gr J words
All shoot and group well.
What would you use?
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7300/10782729303_3b04db4111_b.jpg
X
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7304/10782879874_bf9e775c22_b.jpg