Bullet review - LOS HT 150 gr 308

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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
 
Sounds good. Looking forward to the pictures.

Where are you hunting that requires lead free?
 
SJB358":3fsg3ddb said:
Sounds good. Looking forward to the pictures.

Where are you hunting that requires lead free?
Lower Saxony, Germany

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Very cool. Great review. Amazing what the little 223 does with great Bullets huh?
 
Yeah. It is not allowed here for anything bigger than roe. But with that bullet 100lbs+ should be no problem on.moderate distances
 
I’ve been very impressed with the 223. It’s an amazing little killer with good Bullets.
 
so, some pictures, starting with the 223 (though this is a hunting-forum, there are one or two pictures I only send via personal mail):
roe deer and fox. On the roe you can see the seperate exit-wounds of the shards. Fox sitting, shot from the back
 

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...and 30-06: seems I only have roe- and fox pics (and a head-shot on fallow, which is ugly), but wounding is basically the same.
Fox from 200y, roe from 70 to 200y. Got another from from 170, but again only pm

does, what it is supposed to do. I actually do not ask for more...##NP
 

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Apart from the sitting fox, no bone-contact going in, so it opens up rapidly. Remenber, a roe is 40 lbs field dressed - or less...
Lungs on boar have massive damange, the shards usually don't wander off too far from the main channel

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Great write up! Love seeing the pictures. Looks like a nasty little Bullet.
 
SJB358":17rosk8y said:
Great write up! Love seeing the pictures. Looks like a nasty little Bullet.
Stings like a bee ;-)

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Found some groups on my phone - 1st is 30-06, second 308. squares are 1cm.
223 groups are smaller, and on the laptop - will follow.
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that are 5 shots with the 223. old #1 recticle isn't perfect for targets, but it works...
 

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