Gentlemen,
For those of you who have loaded Hawk bullets, how was the accuracy and performance of their product?

Thank You

Paul K

I use them in my Ruger american 450 bushmaster.
300 grn spitzer, seated out and going 2100 fps.
I have shot 15-20 deer and 8-10 blackbears with them. I have recovered a few bullets, huge mushrooms. Accuracy around 1 1/2" at 100 yds.
Shot some 350 grn in my 11.2x60. No game killed with them, iron sight rifle, accuracy about like everything else (woodleighs, cast).

I, too, use a lot of them in larger calibers; .458 and .510. Performance is fine; realize the they come in different jacket thicknesses, and are made from copper tubing, so make sure you get the appropriate ones.
Listen to TB40; he has killed a lot more stuff than I have...

bullets are soft soft, regardless of jacket thickness - unbonded bullet - have shot them in 577 NE and 450 alaskan, for the most part, not exactly the pinnacle of bench guns, accuracy was acceptable within shooting style (off hand, iron sights) - in short, shot well, VERY soft. there is a legacy of their very early bullets shedding jackets in the bore, but that's been 15-20 years ago

I have been surprised how well they stayed together for soft copper/lead.
I have sent dpcd recovered bullets from animals shot with my 450 Bushmaster loads. I dont remember if I ever weighed recovered bullets or not, but they did well. My guess is, the 2000 fps range is a sweetspot for them to not come apart.

Yes they are copper and lead and are soft. I only use them for guns with big holes in the ends, and at 2200 fps and below. They kill stuff, well.
No idea how their smaller bullets perform and will never find out.

I have had very good results using Hawk bullets with both accuracy and performance. I have used their .377" 280 gr .030" jacket flat points in a couple of .38-55 rifles that grouped very well, and I used some .375" 300 gr .035" jacket round tips in a .38-72 model '95 Win to take two small bison, each with a single shot.

All of these rifles had barrels with groove diameters near .379" and yet all provided very good accuracy with the somewhat undersized Hawks.

The bullets in the pictures are the just different views of the same two 300 gr bullets; one from each bison; the bullet on the right in the pictures hit the spine.





Note in the lower picture of the bullet bases that the cores appear to have slipped forward a bit on impact, though neither shed its jacket.

Muzzle velocity was a carefully worked-up-to 2000 fps, range was about 80 yards.

Shot them early on and too soft, blew up a 160 gr 7x57 .060 thick on a spike deers throat and had a lot of separations with 338s..work best at low velocity old Winchester loadings such as the 45-70 and 348// Not overly impressed. Even so in all honesty they killed well indeed..

Agreed.

I use them in the 1886-33 WCF at about 2100 FPS.
They work in the Model 71 348 with 250 gr bullets.

Killed an Alaskan bull moose with a single shot-M-71
250 gr Hawk.
If its a bear, use Woodleighs or Kodiak Bonded Core-
or Swifts. I can first shot with a 33 Nosler 210 gr-