.303 230 gr.
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I shot my moose this year with 220 gr game rangers {frontier} in 30-06 .
First bullet was broadside chest shot at 200 yds through ribs both sides and planted under hide . Bullet was almost unscathed , slight swelling at front . Second bullet was in right hip and travelled through into chest cavity (clipped hip bone and lost about 20% , expanding slightly).
Son-in-law used same rifle to shoot his buck deer with 174 gr game rangers . Hit low first shot (front leg) and when deer turned shot him also in right hip , I followed bullet path through hip , through right tenderloin past lungs and planted under hide in neck just short of hitting him in the head. bullet had very slight crook to it .
All I can say is they killed what they were shot at
First bullet was broadside chest shot at 200 yds through ribs both sides and planted under hide . Bullet was almost unscathed , slight swelling at front . Second bullet was in right hip and travelled through into chest cavity (clipped hip bone and lost about 20% , expanding slightly).
Son-in-law used same rifle to shoot his buck deer with 174 gr game rangers . Hit low first shot (front leg) and when deer turned shot him also in right hip , I followed bullet path through hip , through right tenderloin past lungs and planted under hide in neck just short of hitting him in the head. bullet had very slight crook to it .
All I can say is they killed what they were shot at
Eagleye said:
I am about to send my BSA P-14 off to Epps to be rechambered for .303 Epps. I think I may give those 230gr a try when I get it back. With the extra powder capacity of the Epps case you could probably get fairly decent velocity with it. One of those at even 2200 fps would pack quite a wallop. Frontier show velocities of around 2000 in a standard Lee-Enfield in their tech bulletin (using S.A. powders unfamiliar to us), so 200-300 fps more should be acheivable in a P-14 Epps.
Stuart
