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    Find the one your gun likes and you'll be fine. While a flat nose is nice, people have killed things fairly well with muzzle loaders and round balls. So it's not a must. The biggest thing is practice and finding that sweet spot for your specific rifle and the ranges you hunt. After that, it's personal preference.

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    Thanks, I almost have everything I need to start casting my own bullets and I’ll try different ones.

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    You can see a general preference for flat nosed bullets and there are good reasons for it. A characteristic result from flat nosed bullets are that they tend to act straight within the animal. If you are lining up a shot that enters the body and your intentions are to have it go in a straight line to interrupt the heart / lungs / shoulders / etc., a flat nose will tend to actually follow that imaginary straight line you have planned out. Spitzers fly very well but may glance off internal structures and end up not going exactly as you have planned. Always that exception, variations occur, stuff happens, and so on, but I like the flat points because the tend to track straight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 725 View Post
    You can see a general preference for flat nosed bullets and there are good reasons for it. A characteristic result from flat nosed bullets are that they tend to act straight within the animal. If you are lining up a shot that enters the body and your intentions are to have it go in a straight line to interrupt the heart / lungs / shoulders / etc., a flat nose will tend to actually follow that imaginary straight line you have planned out. Spitzers fly very well but may glance off internal structures and end up not going exactly as you have planned. Always that exception, variations occur, stuff happens, and so on, but I like the flat points because the tend to track straight.
    See, you say that. But I would bet if I put a .54 cal round ball in the same place you think of. The results would be meat. Soft lead deforms. and I'm unconvinced that a round nose cast soft isn't going to work.

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    I hunt with a 30.06 and a 30.30 and use the same bullet in each. It is a NOE 311165rf (165gr) and is easily effective on targets at 200 yards. For hunting I use a 50:50 mix of wheel weight and pure lead. For targets it is usually range scrape mixed with wheel weight. Hunting bullet and target bullet shoot the same but the 50:50 will lead the barrel in less than 10 shots. I lube with Ben's red or powder coat. Never shot at a deer with them further than 100 yards though. 100 yards was longest shot and about 5 yards was closest.

    In a nutshell for me hunting with my 30.30 or 30.06 I use a flat nose, med weight, 50:50 mix bullet.

    Both of these were taken with the above mentioned bullet this year. They just plain work.

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    They appear to work, Without a doubt.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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