Heavy bullets have more knock down power than light bullets whit higer speed.

14 February 2002, 22:35

I think that a 900 grains bullet from a 577 T-REX have more knock down power than a 750 grains bullet, even if the 750 grains bullet have higer speed and more energy.

If i remeber right the Taylor Knock Out Values is a proof of that a Heavy bullet have more knock down power.

What do you think guys....?

15 February 2002, 03:29

500grains

What caliber rifles have you fired?

What game have you shot?

15 February 2002, 04:41

Overkill

500grains,

I have fire a 460 wby mag many times, i have one.

And i have shoot mooses...!

And i think that the 500 grains bullets in the 460 are better than the 400 grains...!

15 February 2002, 04:45

<Rune>

There you have it 500grains:-)

15 February 2002, 05:54

Overkill

Rune do you know what animal a steer is, do you know the swedish name...?

15 February 2002, 09:05

Fritz Kraut

quote:
Originally posted by Overkill:
500grains,

I have fire a 460 wby mag many times, i have one.
And i have shoot mooses...!

And i think that the 500 grains bullets in the 460 are better than the 400 grains...!

A good recipe for killing bear or moose with a .460 Weath. is to hand the beast the rifle and to let it try a shot. The recoil will do the job.

Seriously, I would hesitate to use the light 400-graiers on such sturdy game as moose and bear. You mention 500-grainer, which during good circumstances would hare a fair chance to perform sufficiently. But Barnes have a 600-grainer, which IMHO is an absolute minimum for the game mentioned. Lighter bullets in this caliber are preferable for squirrels and rabbits.

Most seriously,

Fritz

16 February 2002, 08:11

Gerard

From a 375 H&H, a 265 gr bullet going at 2950 fps has 111.7 lb-f/s momentum and 5122 ft-lb energy at the muzzle. A 300 gr bullet at 2550 fps has 109.3 and 4333. At 200m the 265 gr bullet delivers 102.4 and 4307 and the 300 gr bullet delivers 84.4 and 2586. The 265 will go deeper with a bigger primary wound channel whichever way you like to cut it.

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16 February 2002, 23:15

Overkill

Gerard,

But if the 300 grains bullet expand to a bigger diameter, does it do a bigger wound channel then.

And tell me if it is velocity who do bigger wound channels.

What are going to do the bigges wound channel a 577 T-REX whit 900 grains soft nose bullets or a 300 ultra whit 130 grains barnes x aï¿½t 3800 f/s....?

16 February 2002, 23:35

Gerard

See my post on the knockdown thread.

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17 February 2002, 00:05

Mike375

Gerard,

In my opinion, you would be better off expending energy on getting bullets out to those that have paid (eg. my mate in Australia) rather than:

1) Putting up figures for a 265 grainer at 2950 and a 300 at 2550. 265 grainer at 2950 has about 5150 foot pound of energy. Same energy with a 300 grainer would be about 2770 ft/sec. I know you could argue about what velocities could be obtained etc.

2) Wasting your time responding to the fuckwit.

In short, many have bought your concept of the monometal bullet with the driving bands, so use your energies in getting those bullets out to paying customers and ten paying customers will do the PR job for you.

Mike

[This message has been edited by Mike375 (edited 02-16-2002).]

17 February 2002, 00:42

Gerard

Sorry Mike, I did not realise he is to be shunned. I have not been around much, being too busy figuring who got theirs and who not and why. Also I am fed up with Windows 98 and the constant fight to keep computers up and running with the rubbish. Are there truly no alternatives? If my car was as reliable as my computer network, I would rather walk. If my rifle was as reliable, I would take to a spear or a club. Out of five machines, only a borrowed laptop was working the last week and the constant saving of data in case something dies, and the restoring when it does, is becoming tedious beyond description. I should not start on this topic

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17 February 2002, 00:54

Mike375

Gerard,

Work 24 hours on getting your bullets done and out to the customers and the rest will solve itself.

Perhaps if Joyce Hornady was still alive he could give you some tips on how to use the internet

You don't have time to be on the forums.

Mike

17 February 2002, 01:06

Mike375

Gerard,

Forget Windows 98 as a reason.

Just over 50% of my living is made from making data bases. That also involves emailing of parts of the data base files and also another person who is involved at the internet end.

In short, Windows is OK. Not perfect, but it does not stop us.

If you don't make and get the bullets out then one day Speer or Sierra etc. will do them and you will have to sit back and complain etc. etc.

As I said earlier, your message on mono metal bullets is out to enough people.

Just make em and send em and forget the rest for the rest will look after itself.

Mike

[This message has been edited by Mike375 (edited 02-16-2002).]

17 February 2002, 23:20

Socrates

Gerard:
Windows 98, second edition, is ok for a toy operating system.

2000 is an excellent os, easy to install, now, pretty complete drivers, and very stable, with service pack 2, in my experience.

If you have a Linux guru in the area, that's the better solution, provided your software will run in linux, or, there is an equal in linux software, which, there usually is.

Mac support usually sucks in any country then the US, and it is not sharp here, and, they tend to screw you on promises of hardware upgradeability(see 540C and Lombard powerbooks).

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18 February 2002, 08:23

<Mats>

quote:
Originally posted by Socrates:
Gerard:
Windows 98, second edition, is ok for a toy operating system.
2000 is an excellent os, easy to install, now, pretty complete drivers, and very stable, with service pack 2, in my experience.
If you have a Linux guru in the area, that's the better solution, provided your software will run in linux, or, there is an equal in linux software, which, there usually is.
Mac support usually sucks in any country then the US, and it is not sharp here, and, they tend to screw you on promises of hardware upgradeability(see 540C and Lombard powerbooks).

Agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed... I personally use Win 98 SE for games (ONLY!), Win 2K for serious work and most other stuff, Slackware Linux 7.1 w/ custom kernel for the hell of it and BeOS 5 because I have it - don't see much good with it, but no bad stuff either.

If I was restricted to one single system, it'd be Win 2K for sure. With many of the fine MS Windows emulators available, most Windows applications run FASTER and MORE STABLE under Linux , but setting Linux, or any other Unix-system, up is NOT for the faint of heart - many, many hours and thousands of questions.

Windows XP is not an option, yet.

Gerard should definitely aim for Win 2K.

-- Mats

18 February 2002, 08:32

<Mats>

quote:
Originally posted by Mike375:
Gerard,
Forget Windows 98 as a reason.
--
...Windows is OK. Not perfect, but it does not stop us.

Mike, I knew this day would come someday: I don't agree with you.

Win 98 sucks and should never be used for serious work.

-- Mats

18 February 2002, 08:46

<Harald>

Given a choice I would use Linux on everything. It is a pain to get going, however once its started a crash or a snarl is a virtual impossibility. There is a company in the US called Red Hat that packages a really stable set of Linux installation tools and accessories for a modest price. I have used Linux on my PC workstations for several years now and they are much faster than the Microsoft OS and very much faster than the Silicon Graphics unix machines which cost $20K to $2M. You can also get StarOffice which is a suite of applications that works basically just like Microsoft Office and will export files in MS formats. Linus Torvald may be Sweden's greatest contribution to the 21st century.

...Behind Overkill/Speed, of course!

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19 February 2002, 05:28

ScottB

Win98 is fine until you start networking. Move to NT and it will shine.

If you have a serious system in mind, Unix (or clone) and Oracle are heaven-sent. Next to that, NT and and SQL server are decent.

If you stick to one computer, any windows system with Delphi works well. Foxpro is another option. Access is not shabby either. Older systems should stick to Paradox for ease of app creation.

At work, I use DOS VSE for an operating system and SQL DS for a database, On a 3380 mainframe. Talk about obsolete!

19 February 2002, 05:57

Frank Martinez

I have recently been re-introduced to this site and remember now how great this is for we who are new to the Big Guns. While reading some back posts I have come across a few references to GS Custom Bullets. Where are they? and How can I get more information? Thank you.

19 February 2002, 06:32

Wachtel

This is their very informative web-site:

http://gscustom.co.za/

19 February 2002, 16:35

Brian M

Frank,
Glad to see you posting here.I know you from Grundman's down in Rio Dell,and I belive I directed you to this site some months ago.Stick around,lots of good info here.Don't let some of the intentional pain-in-the-ass posters defer you.

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20 February 2002, 18:38

Gerard

Thanks for the advice on operating systems guys. Should I decide to switch to Win 2000 Professional, what is involved and would all my small peripheral programs stop working? The man who does my computer maintenance at the moment says we will have to discard stuff like Oehler Ballistic Explorer, our accounting system (Cashbook Complete which uses MS Access) and so on. We use several such non Microsoft programs. We have just finished a data recovery on all our machines and all have been reloaded with Win98 SE. We tried ME on one machine and it died. This is wildly off topic so e-mail would be apprciated and "keep it simple" would be good.

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20 February 2002, 23:30

<OttoDude>

Harald,

Linus Torvald is from Finland, not Sweden!!!

Regards,

Otto P.

21 February 2002, 15:31

<Harald>

OttoDude, my humblest apology! I had a sneaking dread that he would be either from Denmark or Finland, the moment that I committed to Sweden. Torvald did not sound like a typical Finnish name to me, but then we had an exchange student from Sweden when I was in high school named Mats Dukakis with olive skin and a big mane of curly black hair, who looked as Greek as his name! Thanks for the correction. I will now go and replace my CD with Sibelius in atonement!

22 February 2002, 11:41

<OttoDude>

Harald,
no need for an apology, my friend! If you'd said that Sako rifles are manufactured in Sweden, that might have hurt my feelings. And you're right, Linus Torvald is definitely not a very common Finnish name. My wild guess would be that the surname is Norwegian/Swedish, and the first name maybe Dutch. Still we are all very proud of him

Best regards,

Otto P.

23 February 2002, 07:17

Wachtel

Linus could be Swedish (know a few Swedes by that name) but Torvalds sounds Norwegian or maybe Latvian

05 March 2002, 09:47

Socrates

Gerard:

You can dual boot, windows 98, and windows 2000, on the same machine, using fat 32.

This allows you to still boot into 98 for your legacy hardware, or mainly, software, while using 2000 for the majority of your work, and the important stuff.

First install 98, and then install 2000.

Your system admin guy should have advised you of this option, since you get the best of both worlds.

2000 is easy to install, since it has almost every driver on the planet on the disk, and, is very stable, combining NT, with the ease of use of 98.

It's also, generally, faster using fat 32, vs. more secure using NTFS.

By the way, it does not have the much tighter driver restrictions that XP has, that are creating so many compatibility problems for legacy hardware with XP.

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