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I annealed a couple of them to the point where they were so soft the case necks crushed when I seated a bullet in them. I figured they were springing back after I initially annealed them. Nope wasn’t the issue. I’m guessing that the neck wall thickness is too thin from several firings and full...

I know this is a super old thread, but I just looked it up today on a whim because a few years back I had the same issue with 300 RUM brass. It was some old brass I bought new in 1999 or 2000. I’ve been fired several times and I don’t remember the round count. I annealed and FL sized in my RCBS...

I swore off federal primers after I had a half a dozen that wouldn’t ignite years ago. After looking at my RCBS shell holder the next time around during the loading process, I found I had a bunch of greasy grimy funk in the primer hole. Cleaned the hole and no more FTFs.

Bad primer…or you just didn’t see it deep enough. I’ve been guilty as charged not seating primer deep enough, and then they fire on the second try after you seated them the first time around trying to fire them. Glad to hear you dropped the deer in its tracks! There’s no way I would ever shoot...

I still have to run my load through a chronograph out of that short barrel Remington 600 with the 90’s. All I know is it broke through ribs and a shoulder for me at 15 to 18 yards loaded HOT! Running them fast gives them a major chance to fail and come apart. I would use them all day long on any...

I run them over 4250fps with long barreled 243. I also shot a few Pronghorn with 125 grain ballistic tips at a 4000 fps muzzle velocity out of my 300 RUM. Run them as fast as you want.

I shot two deer with a 35 Whelen the last week. Both ran like they weren’t even hit! First one blew out the heart and it ran 15 yards and tipped over and the other one I double lunged it and took the whole top of the heart off and it went 60 to 75 yards like it wasn’t hit and fell over. New gun...

Is there a link to click on to see that study? I tried to find it on the Internet without any luck.

Tried the .308,180 grain version in my 30-06 and 260 grain version in my 375 RUM when they first came to market. I posted many times here on them with not having good luck. The first year I used them on was a buck that came limping onto my property with a broken leg that someone shot on opening...

I have a brand new box I'll have to ladder test them. It's almost like those hot cores are exploding as soon as they hit deer. You would think they would drop them a little faster than what I've seen in the last week. I do have a box of the 200 grain Hornady projectiles that they use in the...

Last day of rifle season here. That is until muzzleloader season starts tomorrow. Then antlerless season after that so I guess it’s not done. Oh, and I forgot the holiday hunt which you can shoot anterless only as well. So anyways, it was like below zero this morning with windchill so I slept...

The biggest issue is your paying normally 100% or quadruple that from something that was imported in just rebranded to a US company that is basically the same product. You can look at the rage hypodermic’s broad heads on eBay in Amazon that are from China you can basically get them for under a...

That must be where all Norma’s bullets are at…lol. I ended up sending some in that I bought a box of to load up in 250 grain .358”. I barely was hitting paper with groups at 50 yards with them and they were tumbling. The biggest ones measured .3565”. Normal was nice enough to have me send them...

Well, I remember there were early reports of the first years of production. Accubonds not opening up. I did a quick Google and photos and found this. https://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/threads/bad-bullet-no-expansion.133011/ There were a few other ones, but I guess I’m not alone. I would...

For some reason, they all penciled through my deer with very little damage when I inspected one field dressing and cutting up my deer. Sounds like they must have changed the alloy inside to a lot softer lead, which is good to hear. I’m guessing I had a couple boxes of defective bullets with...

Sounds like maybe a defective super soft alloy then with maybe some voids (air pockets) in it. Hard to say what happened I guess. I could Guess all day long. I think, even if the bullet hit the ground and bounced up and hit the deer, it still wouldn’t explode and go left off the shoulder and...

Think that’s what I tried with mine and they literally were shooting an inch group at 25 yards when I did a random load for bear hunting. Might have to try it again someday with what I have left just don’t wanna blow through those projectiles since they are a couple bucks apiece being I can just...

That’s just weird to me then to me because I don’t know how it would have hit a front shoulder and then the bullet defected at a 90° angle and hit it in the rear quarter.

I believe you I just think they probably just use too hard of an alloy when they first produce those bullets. I Cast lead bullets. I’ve used them with too hard of an alloy and they don’t expand and almost pure soft lead, and they open up like a varmint bullet at the same velocities. I just...

What’s a straight in shot? I’m guessing not a broadside shot but a deer facing directly towards you? So your shooting it in the neck, chest, or shoulder depending where the bullet strikes? Never took a “straight on” shot on deer in all the decades I hunted. I aways wait for a quartering away or...