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You are most unlikely to want .308 diameter either. Try .309 or .310. | ||
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When discussing 'hard cast' bullets for hunting I have to wonder what the shooter is trying to achieve. A hard bullet is going to perform almost the same as a full metal jacket i.e create a wound without doing enough damage to kill. I've shot a lot of wild pigs with cast Lyman 311284 (210gn)and found that a medium hard gas checked bullet at about 16-1700fps to be an excellent killing projectile, mushrooming just like a quality jacketed bullet. No doubt driving a hard bullet at jacketed velocities may give the desired results but it almost always has to hit bone to upset, whereas the soft bullet will still mushroom in soft tissue. | |||
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I wanted a bullet that would penetrate through massive shoulder bone and/or penetrate lenghtwise through an animal. I am restricted to using a .30 caliber rifle that is all that I have. It's a Remington 760 Pump and follow-up shots are very fast. | |||
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Talk to the guys and gals at Cast Performance and at Bearthooth, they may be able to help | |||
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You're getting good info from BA, and everyone else here. You don't need high velocity with a good flat nosed cast bullet. A 150 gr. 6.5X55 at 1600 fps will go end to end in a buck, and keep on sailing. You need to forget pretty much everything you know about jacket bullets for hunting. Different animals all together. Load up a 180-200 gr. flat nosed gas check bullet, and move it out at 1900-2100 fps, and you can shoot right through any thing you will run into. 1900 is plenty, and probably better for the close range you would be shooting at. I live in grizzly bear country, and carry this class loads all the time up in the mountains. I'm not worried about getting ate. | |||
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