This Year's CB Harvest

[dmitch]

Harvesting deer with your own cast boolits and your own handloads never gets old. Having taken deer with the 429244 in my Ruger SBH and the RCBS 35-200 in my 357 Herrett, I had only taken a hog with the NOE 311-165 RF(RD) in a 30-30 Handi-Rifle when hunting with x101Airbourne in Texas. One shot @ 65 yds, DRT, but that's another story! This year I wanted to take a deer with the NOE 311-165 Ranch Dog in the 30-06 for something different. Shot taken @ 65-70 yds; broadside; high double lung; complete pass through; the doe ran only 50 yds out into one of my open hay fields; I was able to drive the 4 wheeler right up to her. I like that more and more as I get older. The picture is not great since it was getting dark fast and I hate gutting in the dark if I can avoid it.
Again, I was impressed with the performance of the Ranch Dog boolit. Second picture is of the four 311-165s that went to the woods and the three that came back loaded.
Next year I want to develop an accurate 30 cal. paper patched load for one of the rifles......so many projects and so little time!

dmitch

[Wolfer]

That ranch dog is a good looking hunting boolit IMO.
It's been a pretty poor year for me so far but here's the total to date.
One doe by me with the 45 colt and 452-424 HP
One bobcat by me with 7x57 and RCBS 7mm 168 sp
One 7 point buck by my son with 30-30 and 311041 HP
One coyote by buddy with 338 and lee c 339-220

I still have today for doe season and later alternative weapons season. Woody

[Grendel99]

That is a good looking bullet, know what your velocity is and alloy? Congrats.

[missionary5155]

Greetings and Congradulations !
Hard to beat a big flat nose for excellent impact results. Was that a WW boolit ?
Very nice of that doe to go in the right direction too. Thanks for the write up !
Mike in Peru

[dmitch]

Wolfer........nice bobcat! What a great trophy and pelt. This was the first year that my area of New Yerkistan that scheduled a bobcat season. There is one out there in the future for my bucket list.

Grendel99 / Missionary5155.......30-06, 35 grs of IMR 4895, no filler, WW LR primer, alloy was water cooled 90-5-5 (tested closer to 89-6-5). I used the softer 95-2.5-2.5 alloy often recommended by Larry Gibson to develop the 2100fps 30-30 load that dispatched my Texas hog, but since I cast these latest 311-165s just before deer season, I opted to cheat a little; give up a little on the expansion to guarantee a quickly developed, down and dirty hunting load with this harder bullet. A lot of range time was not an option. The 311-165 was sized .310 with a batch of old Mirror Lube in my Lyman 450. Cases were mixed head stamp and nothing special, sized in a normal Lee collet die and flared slightly with a Lee expanding die. I have not yet had an opportunity to chronograph this load, but would expect them to be in the neighborhood of 1800-1900 fps. Not setting the world on fire, but certainly adequate for nearly all of my deer hunting ranges. (Ok, I will confess that I took a reasonably nice 10pt earlier in the season with my 25-06 and j-words, purposely exposing myself to the possibility of longer shots.)
Picture is of the 311-165 in the 30-30 which would have saved several hours of monkeying, but now I have a decent starting point to tweak this 06 load.
And now, on to 9 days of muzzleloader season for the deer and/or bear that are left!

dmitch

[Dthunter]

great looking boolet designs!