1st deer With Cast Bullets

[chriskendziora]

1st deer with my 45-70 and 1st with a cast bullet. Gtbulletts.com 400gr Hollow point. BANG THWACK FLOP...Shot through the brisket lodged in the right hind 220gr recovery..321346321347321348321349

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[Wheelguns 1961]

Congratulations!

[Arkansas Paul]

Nicely done.
I still haven't managed it yet. I've killed a lot of them with handloads but never a cast boolit yet.

[Shopdog]

Very nice,thanks for the pics.

[Cast10]

Well done, sir!

[Thumbcocker]

Nice deer. What alloy? What range?

[versa-06]

Great Hunt! & Thanks for sharing! -06

[Iwsbull]

Congrats. Excellent job.

[Sig556r]

Nice tag…rifle too with that fluted barrel

[sixshot]

Congratulations & well done with a nice looking cast bullet. I'm guessing your next one will be with a HP as well. I shot a very large muley buck with the old Gould 330 gr cast HP years ago in the Selway country. He didn't have a big rack but body wise he was huge, we had a real struggle getting him loaded on the horses. I was using one of the first Ruger #1's in 45/70 & later sold it to Jed Wilson, I think he was the chief of police at Salmon, Idaho.
I stopped in Salmon later in the week & bought another book from Elmer Keith & took a photo of him holding his engraved Ruger #1 375 H&H.

[4575wcf]

Well done indeed. We collected two small muley does with my 8 x 54 Krag Jorgensen cast bullet gun last year. Saeco's 190 grain 8mm cast in hard shot, sized to .323 fired through a surplus '93 Turkish barrel loaded to 1700 fps. The bullets whistled right through like low velocity solids. Wifey missed the spine on deer #2 by about a sixteenth inch or she would never have moved. Deer #1 I hit though the lungs about an inch forward of the liver, missed the heart she moved 25 yards before she folded. I could use another 200-300 fps to get this alloy opening up better, but probably will have to go to a slower twist to get it. Both animals did not go far and were followed up easily.

[Bazoo]

Very nice, congratulations. What rifle is it?

[35 Rem]

Congratulations! You were lucky to actually catch a 45-70 bullet in a deer. I see that you did it by shooting it end-to-end. Plus being a hollow point didn't hurt either. I've killed 10 deer with cast so far and have yet to have one stop a bullet. Looks like your bullet worked well since the hollow cavity opened all the way and peeled back to the shank. Now all you need to do is keep using it to get more deer. There's something satisfying in getting a deer with a bullet you cast yourself once you decide to start making your own. It's not that hard, you just got to jump in there and do it.

Oh yeah, I love that rifle!!

[nidrab]

Congratulations

[sukivel]

Nice!

I got my first cast bullet deer this year as well. 50 yards with MP 250gr HP 44 mag in my NEF.


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[chriskendziora]

Nice deer. What alloy? What range?2-2-96 about 50 yards dam thing was running straight at me...

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[chriskendziora]

Nice tag…rifle too with that fluted barrelOcotgan barrel

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[chriskendziora]

Congratulations! You were lucky to actually catch a 45-70 bullet in a deer. I see that you did it by shooting it end-to-end. Plus being a hollow point didn't hurt either. I've killed 10 deer with cast so far and have yet to have one stop a bullet. Looks like your bullet worked well since the hollow cavity opened all the way and peeled back to the shank. Now all you need to do is keep using it to get more deer. There's something satisfying in getting a deer with a bullet you cast yourself once you decide to start making your own. It's not that hard, you just got to jump in there and do it.

Oh yeah, I love that rifle!!I do have the Lee 340gr mold just need to play with them to get better accuracy.

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[Thumbcocker]

2-2-96 about 50 yards dam thing was running straight at me...

Sent from my SM-G970U using TapatalkClear cut case of self defense. Totally justified.

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[chriskendziora]

Clear cut case of self defense. Totally justified.

Sent from my SM-G960U using TapatalkLol deer did a 360 at the shot then DRT..

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[rickt300]

I do have the Lee 340gr mold just need to play with them to get better accuracy.

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I have had LEE molds cast a bit undersize for my Marlin bores. Powder coating might help a bit.

[chriskendziora]

I have had LEE molds cast a bit undersize for my Marlin bores. Powder coating might help a bit.Funny PC but have had better luck tumble lube so far. I need to play more..

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[dverna]

Do you think used enough gun....LOL

Good kill.

[ChristopherO]

Lead finely applied does wonders that those who don't use it cannot understand. Granted, the 45/70 is, as Don amusingly refers to above, certainly enough gun with any type of projectile. It is what I've used since beginning my hunting career for the past 37 years, 45 caliber and up.

That is one wide and deep HP for that boolit. No wonder it shed so much weight with the head on impact. Did the job quite well. Do you have photos of the autopsy / wound channel it left? For posterity sake, nonetheless. LOL

[chriskendziora]

Do you think used enough gun....LOL

Good kill.Nah next time I'll use the 300gr Barnes tsx to kill em more dead..


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[chriskendziora]

Lead finely applied does wonders that those who don't use it cannot understand. Granted, the 45/70 is, as Don amusingly refers to above, certainly enough gun with any type of projectile. It is what I've used since beginning my hunting career for the past 37 years, 45 caliber and up.

That is one wide and deep HP for that boolit. No wonder it shed so much weight with the head on impact. Did the job quite well. Do you have photos of the autopsy / wound channel it left? For posterity sake, nonetheless. LOLNo I did not the bullet lodged in the right flank just ahead of the ham..I was suprised I found the bullet.. Everyone says cast blows right through, maybe the hollow point slowed it down.

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[ChristopherO]

Absolutely the HP slowed it down. That is what they do, open up violently to create instant trauma in the boolit path and beyond. Your cast boolit did exactly what it was designed for. When it shed weight after the front half pealed back and broke off the remaining chunk had slowed enough that all the meat, organs and offal were too much to blow through. This shows that the lead wasn't too hard, soft enough for the expansion the boolit was designed for.
Congratulations on the successful kill.

[legendhunter]

Well done !! That's one good looking bullet.

[GregLaROCHE]

You’re off to a good start. Congratulations!