Hunting boolit?

[doncrs65]

Has anyone have any experience with this boolit and would you use it for hunting?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190426/955cb43d09971118a6ddfcc9b959d9a4.jpg

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[WebMonkey]

I prefer a flat nose for hunting with cast

[wmitty]

Won’t the spire point tend to slump if the alloy is soft enough to expand on game? Looks like a difficult design to try to obtain accurately and expansion at the same time.

[bmortell]

how hard is it? if its hard and sharp pointed like that it may just tumble in tissue rather than expand

[doncrs65]

how hard is it? if its hard and sharp pointed like that it may just tumble in tissue rather than expandBetween 16 and 18

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[gnoahhh]

That would be about the last bullet I would try to execute a clean quick kill on an animal. The best you can hope for is that it would tumble on impact which makes for a devastating wound- but how does one guarantee that anomaly of bullet behavior on command in every possible scenario?

It looks like a neat design, but were it mine I would punch paper and/or ring steel with it and switch to a wide meplat or hollow point design for hunting, or better yet a wide meplat with a hollow point to guarantee instant and decisive mushrooming on impact with a game animal that deserves to be shot with something more than marginally sufficient.

[leadhead 500]

I have that exact mold from Noe and shoot that one in a 35 Whelen, as far as accuracy goes it shoots decent with groups around a 1 1/2” at 100 yards. I never tried it for hunting because of the sharp nose profile. You will do much better hunting with a cast bullet that has a wide flat nose

[mdi]

It's been many years since I did any hunting, but from my limited experience and what I've read here; for cast lead bullets for hunting don't depend on the bullet hardness/expansion for effectiveness on game. The bullet shape seems to be more important. The bullet in the pic would probably just zip through game. I would use a flat nose or wide flat nose bullet.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS776US776&q=30+caliber+cast+flat+nose+bullets&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwir5pSLh-7hAhVTrp4KHfsbCHwQsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1094&bih=472&dpr=1.25

[doncrs65]

Iam new to cast boolits,iam just looking at options,right now iam working with a 300 grain fn,but here is a 200 gr HP iam looking at.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190426/827298f14c389e52d95d697ec18b103d.jpg

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[rking22]

That 200gr RCBS has taken lots of game, and has been accurate in everything I have tried it in. The hp isn’t really necessary, but will be devastating at anything around 1700fps. Lots of damage but a very dead critter! Shot a hog with one last week, dead where he stood, shot between the shoulders at 1850fps.

[doncrs65]

This is the 300 grain boolit iam testing right now.I call it the punisher, because it punishes your shoulder.[emoji23]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190426/45f3b6fd1b17bfa48fee2a122befbf0a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190426/7c8ecc6ec48be7a92e1c898fffefa4c4.jpg

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[rking22]

That right there will kill anything you wanna eat! Just put it in the right place!

[leadhead 500]

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