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good job! That should be some very fine table fare...

congrats!! The best kind of tag is a filled tag...

Being able to consistantly hit clay pigeon targets at 300 yds using published data from a reloading book without "tweeking" the load any.

That's actually 'wreckless use of a firearm' and is a chargable offense!! Old Timer bad habit, things that people used to do in the old days, but doesn't make it right, safe, or SANE!!

Cool deal!

Oops - guess I should have read the rest of the posts before replying. Looks like you found the bullet... :oops: :oops: The AB's that I've retrieved have been about the same wt retention as yours. AB's are good bullets!

I'll bet your bullet is just inside the meat of where it bruised the skin on the offset side. If there is not hole in the hide, then it didn't come out but close enough to make a mark. As for ATV's used for packing out an elk - use whatever advantage you can. No, ATV's will not affect the...

Well, after all the prep, shooting, and reloading - it's a done deal. The questions I had about AB's vs PT's and how they would perform out of my 7mm WSM on a 1 1/2 yr old buffalo bull are laid to rest. One shot through both lungs at 140 yds with the 160 gr PT did the trick. He went about 80...

Dang! Knowing what the AB will do on impact, I hate to think what a PT will do on impact...I've never used PT's before so didn't really know what to expect. I figured the polymer tip and pseudo hollow point design of the AB is what gave it the faster expansion - guess not. I plan on doing a...

I shot some of the PT's this morning. I liked how they held together from 200 yds after digging them out of a clay hill I use as a backstop. Oddly enough, I will have to resight my rifle in as they are flying about 8 inches higher than the 140 gr AB's do (hotter burn from IMR 4831 vs 4350)...

Thanks for all the input - but failed to mention that it is not going to be a big heavy 4-5 yr old bull. I will be hunting a young bull (yearling really) which will be about the size of a good bull elk with a dress out weight of around 350 - 400 lbs (live wt around double that). So, will the...

Has anyone had any experience shooting a buffalo (bison) with an Accubond and how did it perform? I was thinking about using them on a hunt I have coming up at the end of October load would be 58.5 gr IMR4831, 160 gr bullet, 7mm WSM. thanks! HDE

I have both the 270 and 7mm wsm's. Both are great. I will say I am more fond of the 7mm because of it's versatility with bullet weights. I can load the same bullet weight for both calibers and achieve more velocity out of the 7 for long range shooting (rougly 300 fps more). It can also be...

Nice cow - bet she'll eat good. That's my reload as well, 140 gr AC. I used a .270 WSM for a long time also, but have since become a big fan of my 7mm WSM with a reload 140 gr AC as well (can shoot 200 fps faster than the .270) that I took to Canada on a caribou hunt and took two cow elk with...

oh yeah, one more thing (and then I'll sit down and hush) - This isn't a comparison of toxic vs non toxic ammo. It's a matter of the government, whether state or federal, knowing how much of what you purchase and putting you into their database for whatever reason and forcing you to...

I guess the point I was trying to make and perhaps didn't do a good job of is you will still have it if times get really bad or this silly legislation ever expires or is done away with... Understood, you wouldn't use it to shoot with or hunt with. But as long as your state doesn't support the...

Dumb question - How will they even know what ammo you have now or what components you have now by the time it's 2011 if it isn't all used up by then??? HDE

Just finished up a cow elk hunt in Utah this past weekend (Saturday actually). Saw some cows on the side of a mountain where I was hunting from 5 miles away. Ran back down to the truck, about a 1/2 mile away, and drove as quickly (and safely :wink: ) as I could and parked at a spot where I...

I used to live in the Logan area for a while...trying to get enough bonus points now to try to get one of those for myself. Good bull, congratulations!

Nice bull! Not bad for a first.