Moose hunting ammo ?

Sounds good to me.
Will try that Federal Premium 160gr Nosler Partitions along with the Winchester Accubond CT also in 160gr and will choose the best of these two this fall

thanks for your advices guys.
Wasn't expected 4 pages :)
 
blasted_saber said:
Well of course it might be. Sounds like your gun hated them.
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2750 fps for 160 AB out of a 26 inch barrel is too slow for me ....a premium line of ammo should be faster than that.....Federal Premium or hornady Superformance is better ammo, at least you will get magnum velocities....and the once fired brass is useable, nickel brass is crap...

My rifle will push 160 AB to 3050 fps a shoot sub-MOA, with handloads that are 1/4 the price of Win Supreme...
 
catapult said:
Sounds good to me.
Will try that Federal Premium 160gr Nosler Partitions along with the Winchester Accubond CT also in 160gr and will choose the best of these two this fall

thanks for your advices guys.
Wasn't expected 4 pages :)
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It was less than a page if you adjust your settings...

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stubblejumper said:
And the same load could easily be sub moa in another rifle. That is why you need to actually try a load in your rifle, in order to know how it will shoot in your rifle.
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don't get me wrong but this has been my experience ..

really accurate rifles that I have owned will more or less shot smallish groups with any handload fed. provide nothing funky went on and the rifle can stabilize the bullet. this isn't to say groups cant be shrunk by mastering a load for your rifle just that accurate barrels tend to be accurate

my ruger 7 wsm is moa gun but give it that black boolit garbage by Winchester and your looking at 3 moa. makes me wonder how bad they are loaded,,

any one every chrony a whole box to see how they read?
 
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tylerjwitty said:
don't get me wrong but this has been my experience ..

really accurate rifles that I have owned will more or less shot smallish groups with any handload fed. provide nothing funky went on and the rifle can stabilize the bullet. this isn't to say groups cant be shrunk by mastering a load for your rifle just that accurate barrels tend to be accurate

my ruger 7 wsm is moa gun but give it that black boolit garbage by Winchester and your looking at 3 moa. makes me wonder how bad they are loaded,,

any one every chrony a whole box to see how they read?
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I dont recall the spread but velocity was 2750-2800, not good for $60-65 box of ammo, but it sure does look perrrty with dat nickel brass and red tipped AB.

As far as load quality .....ever see some factory WIN ammo with knarly indented crimp they put on the brass looks heavy enough to deform the jacket on a bullet...??
 
Just checked still have 5 rounds from that one box...next time at range I will shoot 5 shot group and record data...160 gr AB with Black lubalox coating and red tipped...

On a plus note I did kill a Moose with these....head shot @ 30 yards.....dropped him in his tracks....was in treestand and only way I could get cell coverage was to call out of stand so b4 I climbed down I called wife and asked her to call butcher to see if his cooler had room, then called for some help to haul him out...while I was on phone Moose started to get back up so had to give him another shot....?

Needless to say I shoot for heart/lungs whenever possible....
 
Thank god nobody has yet started with the "I once shot a moose with a 55gr 223 and it killed it just fine; it's all about shot placement", like they would have on GCN.

350 Mag said:
30-30 or 303 has probably killed more moose than all other cartridges combined...
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I think Mr Aught-Six may have something to say about that.
 
Petamocto said:
Thank god nobody has yet started with the "I once shot a moose with a 55gr 223 and it killed it just fine; it's all about shot placement", like they would have on GCN.



I think Mr Aught-Six may have something to say about that.
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Maybe but the 30-06 likely didnt see wide spread use until the 1940's or 50's......30-30 was killing Buffalo,Elk,Moose, Bear on the Frontier since the 1870's...
 
Remington Cor-Lokt with 175 grain bullets. Practise until you can hit a 5 gallon bucket (vital area size) at 200 yards and you are good to go. Stay away from CXP-2 ammo, Canadian tire stock them in areas that do not have Deer, go figure. Designed for thin skinned game, moose definitely not included. 350 mag is correct, more moose have been dropped here in NL as well with .30-30 and .303 British. .30-30 is great for short range up to about 150 yards, .303 would stretch double that. My father in law dropped a moose with a .303 at about 700 yards about 30 or so years ago, and if there were not 5 witnesses no-one would ever believe him.
 
350 Mag said:
Just checked still have 5 rounds from that one box...next time at range I will shoot 5 shot group and record data...160 gr AB with Black lubalox coating and red tipped...

On a plus note I did kill a Moose with these....head shot @ 30 yards.....dropped him in his tracks....was in treestand and only way I could get cell coverage was to call out of stand so b4 I climbed down I called wife and asked her to call butcher to see if his cooler had room, then called for some help to haul him out...while I was on phone Moose started to get back up so had to give him another shot....?

Needless to say I shoot for heart/lungs whenever possible....
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Lol ...Years ago now , Dad and I were out.
He took a headshot on a young bull, It dropped like a rock :)
Thinking it was done , I extracted the round I had chambered and lowered my rifle.

Guess what happened next ....


That bull got up and made a run for it...Never got a shot off
No blood ..Nothing(we checked)
Dad must have hit him in the horn and knocked him out.


Back to the op's question.

I don't use a 7 mm, but 350 yards is not a long shot for that rifle.;)
I took a moose at about 500 with a 303
And no it was not a one shot deal....
I trimmed a lot of willows around his feet..(Live and learn..It must have sounded like a war zone)
But I did end up with my moose;)
 
The 30-30 may have killed a pile of game .. But it started out as a 38-55 and when necked down the people thought they had a real killing machine .. And there was no 30-06 or the magnums . 30-30 is what they had . I spent some time in Northern Ontario . Around Long lac and Terrace Bay.. I got to see what the locals were using for moose .. And they did use some 30-30 rifles for sure .. And they did kill moose .. But (I read this on the internet does not apply because I was there ) there was moose that they never got .
If they shot them and they did not kill them right there they let them go .. They lived there and they would get a shot at another before the season closed ..
I took two rifles with me .. A 300 and a 338 win mag . When I did get out hunting .. If one of the others had a 30-30 I give them the 300 mag and I used the 338 ..
The amount of moose they shot and walked off went way down if they were using the 300 .
A 30-30 may kill moose within 100-150 yards .. there was cuts up there a mile long .. Under the right circumstances a 30-30 will kill a moose .. But that does not make it a moose rifle
 
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