Would you hunt with this?

[doncrs65]

Anyone ever hunt with this?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190426/d1393d9a7b07490dba1907f27a1caa6d.jpg

Sent from my LGMP260 using Tapatalk

[Hickok]

If it shot good I would. I make my "hunting boolets" with a soft nose of lead, and then a harder alloy for the rest of the slug. I buy pellets for pellet rifles, drop about 4 in the hot mold to make the soft nose. Two piece boolit.

240423

Do a search on these, as they are a little involved to make. A departed member (rest his soul) named Bruce worked out the details for making these. Work great for deer.

[rking22]

I , personally, would not. Not saying it won’t work, just not optimal for me. I prefer a flat point cast of 96/2/2 for deer and other mid size critters. Being a commercial cast I suspect it is going to be 92/6/2 , a bit harder than needed and not as ductile as a balanced alloy for fracture resistance. The point can be fixed with a file. Assuming you are thinking deer.

[RED BEAR]

Absolutely why not if i hunted.

[Texas by God]

Not for deer I wouldn't. Pigs, sure.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

[JSnover]

Wouldn't I hunt what with it? It's more than enough for most critters in this hemisphere.

[Ozark mike]

I prefer a flat nose for brush work

[Dan Cash]

Why not? Drive it hard enough and it will expand if it is softer than type metal; jacketed bullets do.

[white eagle]

Would you hunt with this?
no

[bikerbeans]

No, but only because my 35 cals have tube mags and short COAL issues.

BB

[Blammer]

ground hogs, prarie dogs, yotes, squirrels, and rabbits, yes.
anything else, no.

[Blammer]

where are you getting that mould for $22? that's a deal!

[skeettx]

Bullets for sale, not mould for sale for $22

http://westernbullet.com/3535738caliber.html

[Blammer]

interesting.

[swheeler]

The only possible problem I see with them is .358" sized, @$22 a hundred cheap enough to try.

[swheeler]

...... and yes I would hunt with it IF I could get an accurate load worked up. Very similar shape to the "Ed Harris" Lee 155 gr 30 cal which I have shot deer with, 30 cal hole in, 30 cal hole out, eat right up to the hole. I probably would prefer some meplat but a 35 caliber hole all the way through will still do the job.

[megasupermagnum]

No, I wouldn't. If you are going to pay that kind of money, buy a good hunting bullet. You might get lucky, and the bullet to do a flip inside the body causing some damage, but the entrance hole will be a pin hole. Exit wouldn't be impressive at all. At the very least get a flat point. Better yet, get a soft cast or soft nose bullet. A hollow point would be a very good choice too, but are rare for commercial cast bullets.

[Ozark mike]

Make a better target bullet than a hunting bullet because if the tip deforms on the flesh or bone it will change direction

[Larry Gibson]

A Hard cast commercial bullet like that.......no.

[quilbilly]

I have a couple molds like that in 25 and 30 cals bought cheap at gun shows. They shoot accurately for paper but when I tested them in soaked phone books, they usually began tumbling after about 2" of penetration leaving an enormous "wound channel" but veering in unpredictable directions. Even semi-pointed or round nose boolits were more predictable. Because of that, I decided the the cast spire points would be a real meat destroyer on deer size game. There are no degrees of dead, however. I agree with a couple of the above that they are excellent for smaller, non-edible game.

[Hickok]

I thought you has a boolit mould for casting some of these slugs. My mistake.

Those being hard cast commercial boolits, I agree with Larry and the others, no way I would hunt game with them.

[Texas by God]

If they were all I had, I'd file a 1/4" flat on the nose and hunt away.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

[MT Chambers]

I would not use for big game, there are so many better molds/designs out there like the Saeco 245 gr. fp, that you could cast and match your alloy to velocity.

[doncrs65]

These bullets are between 16and18 in hardness according to Western bullet company. I just purchased some 280 round nose and 200 gr rcbs boolits from them.

Sent from my LGMP260 using Tapatalk

[Smoke4320]

What would you be hunting? Typical shot distance ? Expected load velocity?

[Tripplebeards]

No... if I could cast them myself out of pure lead and push them at fast rifle velocities so i know they would expand... I'd probably try it once. I'm sure they are casted too hard and would be like shooting a field point through a deer

[GLynn41]

shoot yes, hunt no

[swheeler]

Correct shot placement is what a hunter needs to cleanly harvest game. A gut shot buck is still gut shot with an expanding bullet or not. I like game meat and even jerky made from blood shot meat is no good. ;-)

[Smoke4320]

I am going to chime in on the OP again
there are several issues with this bullet for hunting .
Hard cast , and pointed ...neither is going to give you any expansion and little shock value. probably pencil hole in and out.
For me personally.... that means most likely a suffering animal... not something I look forward to.
even a coyote or woodchuck digging around the farm I want dispatched quickly and cleanly

[MT Gianni]

I would only shoot this at a game animal if I could guarantee it would enter the ear hole, otherwise no shot.

[swheeler]

Exactly what I like, pencil hole in-pencil hole out and usually through both lungs and the heart, sometimes just the lungs but always a dead deer with in a few yards, NEVER lost one. I still load jacketed fmj for hunting in 22, 30 and 45 caliber, 22 for head shots only but the other two work fine for lung/heart, that Hornady FMC 220 grain at about 2400 fps out of 06 is a freight train.