Does anyone have any experiance with Hawk Bullets?

Are they in the same class as Woodleighs?

I have a .475 and bullets suitable for >1800 fps are hard to find. Hawk makes several.

Also, has anyone had Hawk make them a custom bullet?

Sure, I use a lot of them. No Woodleighs though so I can't compare. Hawks are simple copper and lead construction of varying jacket thickness.
But for your .475, yes, they make them for that velocity.

I've only ever used one Hawk bullet, a .411 400 grain from my 400 Whelen to take a moose. It worked well.

I've worked up loads with them for several rifles and am going to be carrying their 350 grain .423 bullet in my 10.75x57 next week for caribou.

In the velocity range you mentioned, I cannot imagine them not performing well. I'd go with a .035 jacket at that velocity.

They sure are soft and tend to separate in the faster calibers like my 338 and 7x57 even with the thick jackets, they work great in my 38-40 rifle

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They sure are soft and tend to separate

I used them in my 400PDK on hogs. While they for sure got the job done at the velocity I was pushing they didn't hold together. Killed the hogs dead but I wouldn't use them on larger game.

I believe I was using the middle wall thickness but I wouldn't bet more than a on my memory

No personal experience with Hawk. However the Hawk is not bonded. There is a reference on the Hawk website to bonding detrimentally affecting accuracy. Apparently another proprietary means (no idea what) is used to achieve results similar to bonding.

The Woodleigh is a bonded bullet.

About 20 years ago I tested every .308" bullet of 180 grains that I could get. the test included several brands no longer available. I talked with the owner of Hawk and when he learned that I was testing the bullets by firing them from a .30-06 and a .300 Weatherby into jugs of water he stated that the test medium didn't show well for Hawk bullets and he refused to sell any of them to me. I compared the bullet literature with other bullets and concluded that they were very similar to the ole conventional .032" jacket Barnes bullet. I'd expect the performance to be very similar to the Barnes which was slightly better than the standard bullets from Speer, Sierra & Hornady but well short of any of the premium bullets. If you compare the larger bullets to other bullets of like caliber, weight and construction, I'd be surprised if performance differed materially.

I've tried to order .577 560 gr. .035 jackets for a couple of years. They never have them. Dave

They don't even come close to Woodleighs..They are nothing more than an old fasion cup and core bullet made with soft copper and soft lead..I shot about 30 head of PG with them and and several deer with my .338 and half a dozen deer with my 7x57..The usually separate, and if not the lead is just barely in the jacket..I blew a .60 jacket 7x57 and that's the toughest they make I believe, and it blew up on a small Mule deer throat that my grandson shot, that little deer ran and blead out in about 100 yards, the spine was undamaged..

I found them to work well indeed in my 38-40, 45-70 and 45-90 rifles, bottom line is they are not designed for high velocity IMO or so it appeared to me..

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Originally posted by nopride2:
I've tried to order .577 560 gr. .035 jackets for a couple of years. They never have them. Dave

I ordered two boxes a couple of weeks ago. He sounded like he was getting ready to make them.