Those hammers do tend to generate impressive velocities. At first I was "blah-blah radius drive bands reduce pressure blah-blah", but seems everyone gets good speed with them, so maybe there's something to the "PDR" bands, afterall....Really thinking it's a "do-all" load considering all we have are whitetail, black bear, and a couple times a year for hogs.
May be the first time I hope you're wrong LOLI would think a 143 grain copper bullet at that speed would be a beast on hogs, bear, and bigger. Whitetail at normal ranges? You will have to experiment with it, my thoughts are if you hit bone you will be buying Jimmy Dean's if you want much sausage, but I could be wrong.
I believe it will be fine. There are a couple threads here of guys that have shot deer with Hammers, one recently was nhenry with his 280ai, maybe he will come along and give more details. Lots of info over on the Hammer time forum as well.
Dang straight.
Thanks ! That’s encouraging for sure. I plan on putting some in hogs next month
Tell us how that goes. I’m sure it’ll be to your liking
.... Backed down to 71.0 with 3142 average over 3 shots. Must have been having one of my good shooting days. This is how Hammer recommends you do it. Work up to pressure, back down one grain and shoot for groups. That was my last 3 Hammers. Time to re-order, and call it done. I'm slowly getting over the disappearance of RL-26.
