Took my walkin'around gun out for a spin this weekend to help my party get deer and I got a chance to use it. Its a Mosin M44 carbine with a low-mag scope. Cal. 7,62X54r.
I'm pushing the 174gr Hor RN (wish Nosler would make a Partition in this diameter with a spitzer profile!!!!) over IMR 4064.
Shot a large doe quartering away. Bullet entered 6" above bottom line of deer, 4" front of diaphram. Expanded nicely, shredding back of lungs and passed through exiting in far side armpit of deer with aprx 1" exit hole. Perfect blood trail, deer ran 40 yards and piled up. As a bonus this load groups sub MOA from the ugliest rifle you've ever seen. Bullet ran true with no deflection from rib bones or tissue encountered. Another great run for a great old bullet. Great bullet for close work in enfields, mosins, 7,7 jap or 7,65mm Argentine.
I'm pushing the 174gr Hor RN (wish Nosler would make a Partition in this diameter with a spitzer profile!!!!) over IMR 4064.
Shot a large doe quartering away. Bullet entered 6" above bottom line of deer, 4" front of diaphram. Expanded nicely, shredding back of lungs and passed through exiting in far side armpit of deer with aprx 1" exit hole. Perfect blood trail, deer ran 40 yards and piled up. As a bonus this load groups sub MOA from the ugliest rifle you've ever seen. Bullet ran true with no deflection from rib bones or tissue encountered. Another great run for a great old bullet. Great bullet for close work in enfields, mosins, 7,7 jap or 7,65mm Argentine.