Both kill very well in my experience. I've taken more than a few dozen deer and elk with both styles of bullets.
452-255-RF
452-252-SWC
Both kill very well in my experience. I've taken more than a few dozen deer and elk with both styles of bullets.
Author of Hitwoman, Husband of Hitwoman, Sanctioned Hitwoman, The Chase, Cable, and Finneus.
I grew up reading the writings of Elmer Keith and Skeeter Skelton ...
They claimed the SWC was better ...
Gary
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" Let's Go Brandon !"
I use a swc in both .45 Colt and .357 mag. I don’t have a rifle for the .45 ,but have a Rossi 92 in .357, and it loves the H&G #51 seconds.
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smokes clear, eastwood gray, eastwood perrywinkle gray
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USPSA/IPSC
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |