I am new to reloading, and my family and friends have had doubts that my "homemade bullets" (as my wife and kids call them) would be able to kill a deer. Well as of today, I have killed 4 with my homemade bullets out of my new to me Sauer 202 270 WCF. I have killed 3 does in Texas and a 145" 11 point in Oklahoma this morning. I am using 57 grs of IMR 7828SSC and Fed GM210M primers behind a 150 gr Speer Hot Cor.

Good on yaaa.


Thanks for sharing the pics and congratulations on a great hunt.

Best regards Chris.

Hey Jeff, Congratulations on a fine Deer Season.

Continued good Hunting and clean 1-shot Kills.

Congratulations

Beautiful deer!! Taking animals with your own handloads opens up another deminsion of accomplishment. Congrats!!

Jeff,

Good job!!!
Great Buck!!!!

Don

Nothin' like layin' 'em down with a home rolled.

Nice buck !
Do you find it more satisfying to load you own ?
I do.
I hunt with a couple old frends who are brothers. One took to my hand loads right off the bat , but the other took some convincing.
He took his second elk with a 160 grain nosler acubond from his 7mm Mag. said he never saw an elk drop like that. convinced !
So I had a little hand in his kill even though I was at work 50 milea away.
...tj3006

homemade ammo?? holy chit batman - next thing you know you'll be making homemade burgers

Jeff, congrats. That is some good success on the whitetails, and it definitely is satisfying to shoot one with a load you put together for your rig.

There is a lot of good factory ammo available now-a-days, but it will never be better than a load custom built for your rig, and will never have the 'It was my cartridge' factor!

Good going!!

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Originally posted by Thomas Jones:

Do you find it more satisfying to load you own ?

I have killed over 150 whitetails in my years of hunting, and I have taken more pride in the four that I have killed this season with my reloads.

I also am finding myself at the range much more than usual to do further "load testing".

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jeff Sullivan:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Thomas Jones:

I have killed over 150 whitetails in my years of hunting,

What's the matter? Don't you like beef or finger licken chicken? roger

Jeff lovely buck!

Try the Nosler Accubonds @ 140 grains for that 270, and stick with the IMR 7828 if your rifle shoots well with that powder.

Yes the satisfaction increases with the knowledge of the handloads.

JS,
congrats all around,
thats one fine buck,
smiles grow when you reload!!!!
regards