You couldn't give me a flat of free "Burger" bullets to use on any game.I put a 168gr clipped the shoulder blade of a trotting cow elk at 500 yards out of a .300 RUM resulting in an instant kill and shrapnel liquefying both lungs and peppering the opposite internal ribcage. Lost a WT hit square in the shoulder with a 130gr Burger from a .270 win at only 200 yards.A Partition would have broken both shoulders and exited.No doubt a surface wound. I threw the remainder of the box away. Best of the West has made everyone with money think anything they see is in range......they edit out their FUP's for TV. Folks who have guided for that crowd have talked on other forums.The Burger varmint bullet is needed to open up at extended ranges RE: [reduced velocities] but hope you don't hit bone or a raking shot...............Harold
Hornady 9.3 bullet explosion again.........................
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Some of us prefer that our bullets stay together no matter what......
Wait a sec... did you just admit that you shot through poplars, to hit your buck, and then are complaining about the bullet blowing up??
CreamySmooth
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Then use a bonded or mono. I think a lot of guys have unrealistic expectations from an object flying at extremely high speeds and coming to a violent, instantaneous collision and then traveling through several different densities of materials that could include extremely hard bone.... if you want that performance, pay for it. Which I'm sure you do if that's what you want.
there is old design cup and core bullet than stand very well the impact some others not that much ... bonded or mono is not the only answer at least with the anemic 9.3x62 ...
Demonical.........between the poplars is not shooting through damned trees......ie....slip a bullet between trees.....you put more words in my mouth than my ex-wife....I'm coming to the conclusion it's getting stupid posting anything here any more .....always somebody that's an armchair long distance CSI forensics expert...........[medvedqc .................just jacket weighed 65grs for the two found pieces]
Well I certainly won't be using Hornadys in my 9.3X300 WM............but then I have never trusted Hornadys, seen this exact same issue way too many times, hunting with buddies who used to use them. That performance at 9.3X62 velocities is absolutely disgusting though I have to say, buddies were using 7 mags and 300s and the like, but for it to do that at X62 velocities is bloody criminal.
Barnes_270
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Exactly - the 9.3x62 is more forgiving to the cup & core style as it is, and the Hornady comes apart like a cheap umbrella in the wind...
The 250 gr TTSX worked like a charm for my urban bull hunt this year - caliber sized entrance, loonie sized exit, and one liquified lung in between. Ate up to the hole. Never had a failure with the TTSX in any caliber yet - no, I don't shoot hundreds of animals, but still batting 1000.
Sunn-ahh-mah-gunn.................towzand bucks werth oh knives there......................
very close to the result with water jug ....
not Harold but looks the result with water jugs and deer the bullet is almost identical ... that bullet is made for plinking not hunting ....
If you haven't been there, you haven't hunted......
Amazing how the story changes...
Whats to blame, the bullet, the shot placement, shooting through a small window of obscurity or that the moon or the stars not aligning?
One shot, one bullet, one cut tag and one dead deer with some meat loss and a good learning experience passed on to fellow shooting enthusiasts.
I would say another successful evening in the field.
Rob
Im using a .270 WIN with horandy 130's at a muzzle velocity of 2850 fps and having no problems with penetration or rapid expansion. My dad is using hornady 150's at a muzzle velocity of 2980 fps and also having no problems. My brother is shooting a 7x57 with 139grs and having no problems, but I can't remember his velocity's. My two pennies for the pot.
a 150 @ 2980 is singing! long tubed 270?
Hows this for coincidence, I am due to be sighting in my 7mm08 with these hornady interlocks which I tried a while ago and loaded up all my brass with them LOL, only to switch over the Woodleighs an nabbed 25 cases to use there, Anyway summer is here an so the 139gr interlocks are getting shot at some Targets out too 400meters an for trigger time!
theres around 40 loaded!
oh.. look out Red Fox.
WL
Hows this for coincidence, I am due to be sighting in my 7mm08 with these hornady interlocks which I tried a while ago and loaded up all my brass with them LOL, only to switch over the Woodleighs an nabbed 25 cases to use there, Anyway summer is here an so the 139gr interlocks are getting shot at some Targets out too 400meters an for trigger time!
theres around 40 loaded!
oh.. look out Red Fox.
WL
The saving grace I guess with those 9.3 Hornady is they would make a good neck bullet, or in this case a good moving target bullet since they would probably drop a buck in its tracks even with a gut shot... hitting a running deer is no easy feat, and odds are pretty good the bullet isn't hitting it where you want on a moving target. I'm impressed with the damage it did considering where it was hit.
I don't know if a bullet that held together would have clipped the spine like that...fraggy might just be the reason it's in the freezer. Or at least 3/4 in the freezer lol.
I don't know if a bullet that held together would have clipped the spine like that...fraggy might just be the reason it's in the freezer. Or at least 3/4 in the freezer lol.
22'' barreled BSA majestic. Dad downloaded the batch we chronograph by .5gr because he was trying to be nice to his 70yr old Imperial brass.
oh.. look out Red Fox.
