remingtonman_25_06
Handloader
- Nov 17, 2005
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Earlier this year I posted on teh success of our elk party. My cousin shot his first spike bull this year at around 100 yards with a Browning BAR in 30-06 w/150g core lokts. I gave him a bad time the whole time we were up there saying he barely had enough gun for deer, let alone elk, ha ha. Anyways, the elk was coming right at him his first shot. He hit it low and it turned and ran. He proceeded to hit it all 5 shots before it died. Upon skinning, I dug around and found 3 of the 150g core lokts. Much to my surprise, they were nice little fat mushrooms. They held together quite well. Did not weight them but they looked dang good. Total opposite from my experience shooting the 120g 25-06, and 180g 300 Win mag into wet newspaper at 100 yards. Those particular corelokts looked like pancakes and expanded waaaaaay to much, much more then ballistic tips. So as you can see I was very surprised.
The next bullet I found was the 180g btip. I have been loading this particular bullet for 3 different guys 300 Win mags in my elk camp. I load them all with 75g Rl-22 spittting them out at near 3100fps. This combo has accounted for at least 5-6 spikes in the last couple years. Ranges were from 100-750 yards. This bullet has worked flawlessly for us on elk, so I continue to load it up for them. They requested a high BC bullet that was accurate and cheap. I figured the 180g btip would work great since our shots are usually 200-300+. It hasn't let us down yet. This particular one was shot at 450 yards high in the shoulder. It was found lodged in the offside after it smashed through quite a bit of bone. Pretty good perforamnce from the 180g BT in my opinion....
The next bullet I found was the 180g btip. I have been loading this particular bullet for 3 different guys 300 Win mags in my elk camp. I load them all with 75g Rl-22 spittting them out at near 3100fps. This combo has accounted for at least 5-6 spikes in the last couple years. Ranges were from 100-750 yards. This bullet has worked flawlessly for us on elk, so I continue to load it up for them. They requested a high BC bullet that was accurate and cheap. I figured the 180g btip would work great since our shots are usually 200-300+. It hasn't let us down yet. This particular one was shot at 450 yards high in the shoulder. It was found lodged in the offside after it smashed through quite a bit of bone. Pretty good perforamnce from the 180g BT in my opinion....