Best bullet weight for hunting with the 303

My vote goes for the 180 grainer for best overall bullet weight.

I'm with CM on this one ! With the quality & design of avalible projectiles these days ,I really think the 150 gn is hard to beat

      Dave

I do not dislike the 180's they are an excellent round, I use them in heavy brush at close ranges in a round nose corelock. But the 150 with its excellent ballistic and longer ranges can not be beat!!

150 grn seems to work pretty good for me

I cannot be the only one using hand-load 125 gr. soft points.

I admit I cheated by putting a Montana Rifleman ® barrel on my gun, mostly to rid myself of the vastly oversize chamber.
This doubled the life of my brass.

My most recent Mule Deer was taken at 325 yards, hit him within an inch of my point of aim.
If I can ever duplicate that shot, I want to have a witness, of course I will have to win the hunt tag lottery again first.

The 125 gr. bullet has enough zip to pass through a deer, so why punish yourself with a heavier bullet unless you are hunting very large or thick skinned game?

dave h wrote: I hear you on the rebarreling ! My Barrel Guy does a excellent .303 barrel (as well as most of the Old .303 based converstions ) Most of my work with the 123-125gn 311-312 projectiles is with my .310 cadet ,though I have played round with them in the .303 at times with good results .      Dave

dave h wrote: I Use Sprinter Arms Barrels. As did my Father before me . Their a little company up in the Adelaide hills & have gone from Father to son . They stock reamers for many types of 303 convertions.     Dave

Hey
am new to the forum.

I just got a lee enfield .303 no4 mk1 sporterized a bit.

Today me and a friend shoot it for the first time with 2 kind of ammo and i got a question about the bullet weight.

We first shot some 150 grain solf point, one each and i never shot rifle before this. We both got like 1 ft away of the paper target at like 150 ft away of it.

Then we both shot with some Super-x 180 grain Power Point and both got pretty close to the middle of the target "like 2-4 inch from center"

We shot 1 Cartridge of each weight each. We shoulda have shot more but no ammo to waste.

Is that normal or is that us that was bad for our first shot with it?.

Also what would be the best for moose hunt, Federal 150 grain soft point or Winchester Super-X 180 grain power point? Or you suggest anything else?

Will be first moose hunt, also i am not used to these rifle, i have no idea what ammo to use,  i may try again the 150 grain later.

Thanks you :)

Mathieu