Larry in SD
Handloader
- Nov 8, 2004
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Well this year I hunted with a 15" T/C Encore chambered for the .284 Winchester Cartridge. This Handgun started life out as a 15" 7mm-08, and was rechambered to .284 Winchester by David White of Precision Rifle Works.
I worked up a load with 140gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips using H-4831SC Powder, Winchester Brass and Federal Gold Medal Match Primers per the recommendation of a friend that has experience wit hthe .284 Winchester in a Custom Remington XP-100. This load consistantly produces sub 1" 5 shot 100 yard groups from the bench at a muzzle velocity of 2665 FPS from the 15" Handgun Barrel.
The Wood on this Encore is Factory T/C Wood, but the forend has been modified. Actually the Forend is a Factory T/C Walnut Rifle Forend that was modified for the Handgun by Roger Johnson's Gunsmithing here close to my home. Roger Shortened and Reshaped the Forend so it was more pleasing to the eye, and then totally glass bedded the barrel channel and added aluminum pillars to it.
At Sunrise on Opening Morning of the South Dakota East River Deer Season I harvested this buck with a single shot.
No he isn't huge in the Antler department, but was a quite large bodied deer. The shot was perfecly broadside at 150 yards. The bullet entered right behind the near side shoulder. I do not remember if a rib was hit on entrance, but the lungs were destroyed and a rib was broken on exit leaving a quarter size exit hole.
At the shot the buck bucked like he had been goosed by a .410, and took off at top speed. The buck covered about 20 yards of meadow and disappeared in behind a willow thicket. We gave the buck a few minutes and started to look for him. Well he was found about 60 yards from where he was shot stone dead.
I have hunted with Speciality Pistols since 1982, and since the advent of the Nosler Ballistic Tip Bullets finding the right bullet for these types of Handguns has really become a lot easier.
Any other Handgun Hunters have success this year?
Larry
I worked up a load with 140gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips using H-4831SC Powder, Winchester Brass and Federal Gold Medal Match Primers per the recommendation of a friend that has experience wit hthe .284 Winchester in a Custom Remington XP-100. This load consistantly produces sub 1" 5 shot 100 yard groups from the bench at a muzzle velocity of 2665 FPS from the 15" Handgun Barrel.
The Wood on this Encore is Factory T/C Wood, but the forend has been modified. Actually the Forend is a Factory T/C Walnut Rifle Forend that was modified for the Handgun by Roger Johnson's Gunsmithing here close to my home. Roger Shortened and Reshaped the Forend so it was more pleasing to the eye, and then totally glass bedded the barrel channel and added aluminum pillars to it.
At Sunrise on Opening Morning of the South Dakota East River Deer Season I harvested this buck with a single shot.
No he isn't huge in the Antler department, but was a quite large bodied deer. The shot was perfecly broadside at 150 yards. The bullet entered right behind the near side shoulder. I do not remember if a rib was hit on entrance, but the lungs were destroyed and a rib was broken on exit leaving a quarter size exit hole.
At the shot the buck bucked like he had been goosed by a .410, and took off at top speed. The buck covered about 20 yards of meadow and disappeared in behind a willow thicket. We gave the buck a few minutes and started to look for him. Well he was found about 60 yards from where he was shot stone dead.
I have hunted with Speciality Pistols since 1982, and since the advent of the Nosler Ballistic Tip Bullets finding the right bullet for these types of Handguns has really become a lot easier.
Any other Handgun Hunters have success this year?
Larry
