Anyone shot any game with the blackout and cast?

[crabo]

I am selling some stuff and am going to build a Blackout. Any real time experiences on game, particularly with cast?

Please don't make this into a theoretical discussion.

[2wheelDuke]

The guys on my local forum have been crazy about the blackout. One of the first guys to get one crony'd some loads, and I thought his numbers looked a bit disappointing compared to the stock numbers of 7.62x39.

These guys have done a fair bit of hog hunting, so far I think most are using factory ammo there. The hogs must not have seen that first set of chrony numbers, because he's been knocking them dead just fine.

http://flaguns.com/showthread.php?18...o-Hunts-2-Hogs

[Moonie]

It is not a long range cartridge but I'd be confident to shoot within 100yards with a cast 245/247, sub or supersonic.

[RU shooter]

A nice 150-170 gr flat nose at 1800-2000 fps should work rather well also.

[Jailer]

A nice 150-170 gr flat nose at 1800-2000 fps should work rather well also.

Works great on woodchucks.

Sorry, closest thing to game that I've killed with mine.

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

I shot a couple coyotes with mine, but all under a hundred yards. The range maggot* ranchers around here love me. Nice caliber holes in and out, never recovered a boolit.

Rich
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* sheep

[klcarroll]

........The range maggot* ranchers around here love me.........

* sheep

Hmmm.........

Being from Illinois, I never really considered it before: .......But from a considerable distance, sheep DO look like maggots, .....don't they?



So far, I've only popped a couple of old, fat, nasty Illinois woodchucks with mine.

At 50 yards, that Lee 230 boolit at subsonic speed went "in-and-out" without even slowing down! ….One of the shots featured a little bit of brush in the way; which didn't seem to bother it a bit.

……And I really like the very moderate report produced by the subsonic loads!! (…..The whole county doesn’t show up to comment on your activities!)

I wouldn't hesitate to use the same load on Whitetail out to 100 yards: ......With careful shot placement, of course!


Kent

[bruce drake]

Knocked a 30lb+ NY porcupine out of a tree he was gnawing on last fall with a 155gr LEE TL .310 Spirepoint (the C.E. Harris/LEE design).

One shot up through the lungs and shattered its spine. It was dead by the time I walked the 50 yards through the scrub to the base of the tree where it fell.

Bruce