noslerpartition
Handloader
- May 26, 2018
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Don't know if it belongs to hunting, reloading or ammo - anyway:
I have to hunt lead-free and after barnes I tested those bullets. Don't know if they are available on your side of the pond.
They are all-brass with a hollow point designed to fracture at the tip. Similar to lehigh's controlled chaos.
Since they are cheaper than dirt I gave them a try in my Tikka T3 varmint (and in 223 for my savave low profile)
They are not a long-range bullet. BC could be inproved by a plastic tip.
Up to now, I took about 50 big game with them (if you consider our little roe as big game), including wild boar and fallow deer.
Until now, I did not find a reason to change. They work more like a conventional lead-core than like a solid deformer.
I found a shard once under the hide of a boar I spined on a driven hunt (under the off-side).
Size about a quarter of a pinky's fingernail.
The shank pruduces an exit wound all the time. Depending on game size, it can be somewhat bigger due to the shards.
They open up quickly - pelt-hunters should not use them, even fired from a 223...
Instant drop down with a lung-shot is more the rule than the exception.
With a price of €0.35 they are less than half of barnes etc and with groups of 2/3 moa in 30-06 (I stopped there, because it is good enough for my kind of hunting) and less, and having the same point of inpact @100 m with my 168 gr nosler cc/ 55 gr varmageddon, I think I will stick with them.
Pictures are on my laptop and will follow...
Cheers
NP
I have to hunt lead-free and after barnes I tested those bullets. Don't know if they are available on your side of the pond.
They are all-brass with a hollow point designed to fracture at the tip. Similar to lehigh's controlled chaos.
Since they are cheaper than dirt I gave them a try in my Tikka T3 varmint (and in 223 for my savave low profile)
They are not a long-range bullet. BC could be inproved by a plastic tip.
Up to now, I took about 50 big game with them (if you consider our little roe as big game), including wild boar and fallow deer.
Until now, I did not find a reason to change. They work more like a conventional lead-core than like a solid deformer.
I found a shard once under the hide of a boar I spined on a driven hunt (under the off-side).
Size about a quarter of a pinky's fingernail.
The shank pruduces an exit wound all the time. Depending on game size, it can be somewhat bigger due to the shards.
They open up quickly - pelt-hunters should not use them, even fired from a 223...
Instant drop down with a lung-shot is more the rule than the exception.
With a price of €0.35 they are less than half of barnes etc and with groups of 2/3 moa in 30-06 (I stopped there, because it is good enough for my kind of hunting) and less, and having the same point of inpact @100 m with my 168 gr nosler cc/ 55 gr varmageddon, I think I will stick with them.
Pictures are on my laptop and will follow...
Cheers
NP
