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 Topic: What’s your faverite bullet weight ?Posted: February 27 2006 at 1:34pm |
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So who uses what bullet weight for what hunting ? I like 150gn -175 for
goats, roos,pigs & 215 rn for big game such as Water
Buff & camel
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 2:20pm |
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I'm realy starting to like the 174 GR FMJ. Feeds wells and fairly good accuarcy. For hunting I'm starting to lean towards the 180 GR Core-LoktŪ ammo. I'd tried some PMP 150 GR soft point. I'm not the most impressed with it. Shoots alright but had a couple of feed issues with it. Also the spent brass is a real head scratcher. Spent brass looks like a person used a blow torch on it. Blacker then an angus cow.
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 10:04pm |
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Dave, I like 150 grain boat tail spitzers by Noseler. they are always with in less the a 1/10th of a grain in weight and very accurate, However my No.1 Mk. III* has been factory sighted by Lithgow to shoot HV Mark VII Ammo which is 174 grain. so I may start useing that so my Factory Iron sights are correct. I'm also going to load those to the original velocity my chronograph should take care of that. Plan on using the No.1 Mk.III* for deer this upcoming season. Cookie Monster Edited by Cookie Monster - February 28 2006 at 12:59pm |
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 12:09pm |
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Richard if you can duplicate the old Factory ballistics your
rifle can be sighted in at 25 yrds & the point of impact will be
the same at 200yrds with the MkIII! The beauty is you just leave the
sights set for 200yds ,at 25 & trajectory does the work for
you
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 1:02pm |
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Dave, I have the specs on the MK VII ammo I will take a 174 GR jacketed bullet and chronograph to the same velocity. should work don't you think? cookie Monster Edited by Cookie Monster - February 28 2006 at 1:53pm |
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 1:17pm |
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I can't see any reason why it would'nt . your only really changing the type of propelent form cordite to powder
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 3:59am |
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G,day Dave, been shooting a customized parker/hale (originally made in the united states by SAVAGE firearms.). for years. on black bear ,here on vancouver island,british columbia,i use 180 grain remington corelok roundnose. anything else gives me feeding problems. i have a 3x9 scope and keep shots at at max. of 125 yards. 3 shot groups 2" or less. works great . for deer,cougar and wolf,i use 150 gr. psp or 150 gr. hp in a 30/06. lived in northern quebec(eastern canada) years ago. we shot moose with the.303 again,180 gr.rn rem.coreloks or 180 gr. CIL(canadian industries limited) an ammo maker in montreal quebec. at that time,the #1 and#4 was about the only rifle in the north woods,unless you bumped into a YANK. most of the ABBOS hab old full wood enfields,and made every shot count. over the years i,ve had rifles up to a.375h&h BROWNING safari Grade. didn,t kill any deader than the.303. &nbs p; April 1. bear season opens. i live about 45 minutes drive from the mountains. pretty lucky. have a stubby for me.
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 10:24am |
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G'day POPS I know the Parker Hale sporter well ! I remember back in the
70's ,when a normal #4 was still selling for about $45.00 The
Parker hales were going for $99.00 & they were worth every cent of
the investment ! THe #1 MKIII has always been the most common over here
.WE would buy one & still do & out would the bushmans
gunsmithing kit ....... Triangular file ,Hack saw blade ,brazeing gear
! The hacksaw was used to ,cut a inch of the muzzel (to stop key
holeing bullets )& to sporterize the stock ,Now after cuting back
the wood they tend to shoot about 6" high with milsurp ammo ,so we'd
build up the fore sight & then file it down until it shot right !
To bed the barrel a peice of car tyre inner tube was cut about 4"sq and
placed under the barrel right at the fore end,tighterned & shot
,then it was moved it's own lenght & the proccess repeated until
the best groups were achived & then the excess,rubber trimed off !
I have never felt under gunned with a .303. The only times it has ever let me down was my fault not the rifle's ! The first time was a Water Buff that I engauged at extreme range & it took another 9shots (at ever decreasing range ) to stop it ! The second was My complacencey ! I had stalked within 10mtrs of a Water Buff & squeezed the trigger to send it to the big pet food factory in the sky & was rewarded with a "Click" .......broken firing pin  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I'm always asked how this could be my fault ? Well the problem was
that I'd (being the idiot I was yelled out to said 2ton of nasty
creature ! That it was about to die ! What followed was about a 2
second silence ,whilst we both considered our positions & the
sudden role reversal ! Followed by a very breif chase (the Buff had the
home ground advantage ) then I found my self with several orifaces in
my body that had not been there several miniutes prior to the encounter
,with several ton of very annioed animal trying to trample me into the
ground ! My offsider despatched the animal (and I think was thinking of
doing the same to me for being so stupid !Dave |
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 2:12pm |
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No worries Dave, the beastie gone and you are still here(there). before yelling,next time,have a "TIM TAM SLAM" find a gum tree THEN yellat the bugger!!! we often whistle to get the attention of the big black bears. a bear under 2 years old will immediately run at any odd noise,female(bears)too. old boars,tend to look at whats in their territory.
 sometimes, if they are spooked within 50 or so yards(meters) the bear starts the hostilities. in my 45plus years of hunting,i have ended them. its all about shot placement. i,ve seen photos of aussie water buffalo in the north. (WHERE THAT BLOODY GUM TREE?). how close do you try to get and what type of hit do you exicute? lung ,brain? POPS (Glenn)
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 2:54pm |
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Glenn .I've always tried for the neck shot ! If we were shooting down
on them from higher ground we would aim for the spine in the hope of
quanity not quality as we were paid by the LBS in those days ! Camel is
a fav for neck shots for me as once their disturbed & head for less
profitable areas to me The neck presents a rather long target ,with
either the spine or the jugular ! I'm planning on teaching Kombi this
shot in the future .As he badley wants to belt a camel !
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 7:31pm |
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Have 8mm Mauser with 250gn Woodleighs....will travel!! |
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 12:20pm |
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Have 8mm Mauser with 250gn Woodleighs....will travel!!
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 3:49am |
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Hey Canadian Folks! Speaking of heavier grain...I'm from Vancouver BC area and I'm having trouble tracking down anything with more punch than 180gr. I recently bought a No4 Mk1 that came with a handful of 15 year old Federal 220grs that the bugger used to shoot Moose...can't seem to find anything of the likes around here though.
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 8:37am |
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Well Duke -Sorry to say I just gave away a full box of 210 gr.I don't use anything that heavy, so I didn't have any use for it.
Why oh why are you using loads THAT heavy,anyway? You hunting SASQUACH? Hoadie |
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Posted: March 25 2006 at 5:01am |
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Not actually hunting anything in particular...just enjoyed the big pops while they were around. I suppose you could say the theoretical bear in a tight spot if necessary...not going nuts trying to figure out bear fight or anything, but I was in the bush at Fort Nelson last year that gal from PG was mauled up the road. |
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Posted: March 25 2006 at 7:44am |
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Yeah Duke - Last year seemed to be a bad year for Bear vs people,here, for sure. I was tellin Dave I damn near got it meself in June. Round bout dusk (7:15) forgot the damn bang stick inside front door of cabin, & son of a B came outta the cedars ahind me - twixt me & cabin!!
The only thing that saved my lilly white bum was the fact it was a male - otherwise U wouldn't be gettin this now!(I can't run 38 miles per hour - even scared!!) Anyway, anytime I've taken blacks, I've never had a problem with 150 grn.1 shot.Course - you might be where the bigger boys are - so you'll probly use 180 grn. The Inuit don't seem to have much of a problem with gov't ammo on polar bear, even @ 300 yds.& U gotta admit - THATS alot of bear!(& they use L/E) hoadie |
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