Recent content by Blkram

Sounds like you need to keep your knives sharp, as your rifle/handload combination is dialed in! Best of luck in your future adventures!

The only animal taken with it to date was a medium sized black bear boar. Complete penetration at 120 yards. Exit wound larger than entry. (Did not measure.) So cannot state on actual expansion on this animal. Sierra did give these bullets a heavier jacket so that they would have better...

Looks like great memories! And he has a great number of animals to his credit. Great start on a hunting lifetime of skills and experience! Is your daughter still shooting?

I haven't had a rifle with a Douglas barrel to date, so cannot say from personal experience...but as outlined above, I have heard both good and bad stories over the years. One of my shooting friends has a couple of rifles with Douglas barrels, and he is happy with them. Not sure why, but the bad...

When reloading once fired cases, I have neck sized belted cases and experienced no issues, whether it be for 270 Wby, 7mm Rem Mag, 338 Win Mag, or 416 Taylor. With new brass, I have always full length sized. And I have never heard of a belted case failing at the belt from responsible loading and...

How do we block it?

The only load I tried with the 200 gr BT to date was with 50.0 gr of IMR-4320. It produced 2590 fps from my 22" barrel, and a 3 shot group of 0.787" My rifle prefers the 215 gr SGK at 2751 fps with 62.0 gr of H-414, and 3 shot groups of 1/2". What I like most about this bullet, is that with its...

Attention Moderators: I just noticed that in the quote above (post #15), that another line has been added by a casino to the last line in my original post! (Not included in my original post # 3. Is this allowed??? Thanks!

Impact velocity does have an affect on a bullets expansion, that is exacerbated when hitting heavier bone. For example, a 165 gr AB out of a 308 Win as loaded in Nosler's factory ammo, has an initial muzzle velocity of approx 2800 fps from a 24" barrel, and will retain over 2600 fps at 90 yards...

In other words, it worked well. And it produced a quick, clean kill.

I like to try various factory ammunition in new, or new-to-me, rifles to determine what bullets and/or weights they will show a preference for. Once I have done this, I buy 5 boxes of that ammo so I will always have a preferred ammo on hand, should I run out of handloads that I have worked up...

As repeated several times above, the one that shoots best in your rifle. Honestly, either bullet (AB or PT, and including the BT), or any other cup and core bullet will work fine at your velocities and at your typical shooting ranges, on your light deer. Their bone is not going to be as heavy...

I started with the 280 Rem and then the 6.5x55 in the late 80s and mid 90s.. Since then, I have enjoyed the experimentation with various calibers and cartridges from .177 to 0.458. While I have played with them, the two gaps in my battery from .177 to .416, are the .244 and .323, as they just...

In my first 280 Rem (Browning A Bolt), back in the late 80s, I ran the max load of IMR4350 with the 162 gr Hdy Interlock. Didn't have access to chrony back then, so unsure what velocity I was getting, but the felt recoil was significantly more than the factory fodder with 160 gr bullets, and the...

I have never had a problem with expansion with an AccuBond on smaller big game such as deer, or antelope, or wolf, regardless of caliber or cartridge, from 0.264 to 0.308. And I have seen expansion of recovered bullets up to just over 2X the original diameter, and have seen weight retentions of...