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How hard is the Woodleigh 350 PP .375 bullet? I mean will they open up at all on smaller sized game, at least as well as a 300 PP ? Or would a 350 RN have to be used? Because it is softer I'm guessing. Starting them at 2350 fps, at 250 yds the 350PP is down to 1865 fps and the 350RN is down to 1757 fps. 250 yrds isn't that far but will they expand at all on anything short of a large bone? Allen It's a Mauser thing, you wouldn't understand. | ||
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I emailed Woodleight last year, the PP is tougher then the soft point, would use it for buff, go th their website and see what the minimum velocity they recommend it for that should give you an answer. Now that NF is out of business i will load either swift a frame 300 or the 350 woodleigh PP for buff if i go back | |||
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According to Woodleigh's web site the 350 PP has a velocity "window" of 1900 to 2500 fps and the 350 RN is 1900 to 2400 fps. So does to PP open slower than the RN so would be better on smaller game because the RN would open a little quicker or would it matter? The 350 gn wouldn't be my first choice for small game but of the two which would work better if I had a 350 gn in the gun when the shot presented it's self. Allen It's a Mauser thing, you wouldn't understand. | |||
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Hopefully Ray Atkinson wil pick this up and share his extensive knowledge of the bullets in question. He has field tested them a lot and should have your answers. | |||
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I'm taking both next year. | |||
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I have not used the 350g 375 but I have used other woodleigh bullets. In my experience with all of them, excess velocity will reduce penetration. Slowing them down a bit will make them more effective on big game like buffalo. I had pass through shots on buffalo with my 470 at 2150fps but had some only go half way through with a 450 dakota at 2400fps. Both result in dead buffalo. I think they make a fine bullet and would think the 350 grain will work great for buffalo. ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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In my testing the 350gr 375 Woodleighs @ 2250fps lost virtually half their weight at 20 yards on piles of moose meat scraps. When used on large bears - two at 120yds and another at 10yds they gave complete penetration and exited. Anyone who claims the 30-06 is ineffective has either not tried one, or is unwittingly commenting on their own marksmanship Phil Shoemaker Alaska Master guide FAA Master pilot NRA Benefactor www.grizzlyskinsofalaska.com | |||
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458 were you shooting the 350g Protected Points or Weldcores? Thanks, Chuck Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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I tested the 350 gr. 375s and the 450 gr. 416s for Woodleigh in Tanzania on buffalo for 3 or 4 years running... Both are weldcore btw...The PP always gave me complete penetration on buffalo in both calibers and also got rather large exit holes. One bullets shot into dead buff lengthwise I got these huge wings with the lead still on them and they worked like a band saw and did a lot of internal damage that I photographed... The RN did the same only sooner and mostly came to rest on the off side skin in big expanded ragged muchrooms.. The bottom line is PP's for dagga boys, and RN for herd shooting IMO...In either caliber as both performed the same. A good combination for sure is the RN followed by GS Customs FN solids or Northfork cup points if you have any.... As for plainsgame, they all worked like a charm, and I used them in Tanzania and RSA..They knocked big holes in them and they ran a bit an went down, about what you expect with any big bore on plainsgame. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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I have found the 350grn Woodleigh solids provid exelent penetration and all three: roundnose, Protected Point and solid bullets shoot simiular point of impact with the round nose opening up fastest of the two softs due to the larger area of exposed lead. | |||
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