.223 on medium game

10 March 2010, 04:39

carpetman1

.223 on medium game

Low Wall--I use Unique and IMR 4227 mostly in the cast .22's. They measure around .225---but I dont usually measure--just size, lube and shoot. I guess the other place got too PC or whatever for me. I made an off-color--post certainly not profane nor too risque in my opinion and it got deleted. To me that is like being told to shut up and doesn't set too well. The topic of the post was "off topic" and should have been in that section. My post would easily fall within their rules. Guess some of the moderators like to show their---anyways I'm gone.

10 March 2010, 05:33

Low Wall

carpetman1,
Thanks for your reply on the powders for .223 cast..Forgot to ask what alloy are you using?
I don't go to OT at castboolits that much so I missed the dust-up..Sometimes people go at each other tooth and nail and nothing is said and other times posts or threads just disappear..Strange.. Anyway your wit is missed..

10 March 2010, 06:52

WhatThe

I did a control test too, and took a 308 hunting instead of the 223. Worked real well for me. One shot for each dead deer. Eight shots - seven dead hogs.

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If you have a .308 why would you even bother with the .223 on deer, pigs, etc.. That .308 will do a much better job at any distance than the .223 I don't care what anybody says!

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10 March 2010, 07:10

butchlambert

What the,
I don't believe that was what the original poster asked. He didn't ask ethical questions or so called KO power. I've used a 6.5X47 Lapua the last 2 years for deer. I did provide info and pics on hogs that are much heavier and harder to kill than deer. I don't think I posted an opinion on cartridge choice.
Butch

10 March 2010, 08:17

carpetman1

low wall--I use a special blend of wheel weights. I mix 50% wheel weights that were free with 50% I didnt have to pay for. Some parts people are paying pretty big money for ww's, but I have always been and am still able to get them free. No more than I use anymore, I don't even seek them. Fairly new guy at Cast Boolits--Chaos lives in a nearby town and his job takes him to several small towns. He has been able to get them free and has over 1,000 pounds of them--all free.

10 March 2010, 11:54

Low Wall

Free wheel weights?????????
You Bastid!

10 March 2010, 18:50

Jim Kobe

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Originally posted by butchlambert:
OK, How is this?

I've got a handfull of cows in the woods... A few days ago I left the gap open to try and trap them out on the prairie. I drove down this evening and saw most of the woods bunch out in the open country with the others.. I left the truck about 1/2 mile from the gap and went on ''afoot''... Went through the gap and was closing it thinking, ''I got 'em trapped.'' About then I looked down the creek about 600 yards and saw 3 or 4 cows, shit !! So I laid the gap back open and decided to loop around those 3 or 4 and see if I could get behind them.. I struck out through the woods intent on getting back in a few hundred yards so the cows wouldn't see or hear me. After making a loop of maybe 3/4 of a mile I started edging back towards the creek.. When I got to the opening I saw a few bucks come out of the creek, they'd been watering in a pothole.. One of them was pretty fair, the others just mullets. Didn't see the cows but decided to walk on up the creek another few hundred yards thinking I might see a pig in another mud hole farther up the creek.. When I got to the spot where I thought the mud hole was I eased up to the edge of the bank so I could see down into the creek bottom. Immediatly I saw where some hogs had been laying up in the slurry. When I scanned the creek bottom up towards where I was standing I was shocked to see a hog laying in the mud directly below me! From the bank I was standing on down to the pig was about 20 yards. I stood there thinking, ''that sob died right there in mudhole''.. Almost instantly I thought, no, and stood looking for an ear to twitch, anything that would tell me he was alive.
About that time he exploded out of his muddy bed and hooked 'em up the creek bank. I had the .223 slung on my shoulder so grabbed it and tried to get on the scalding hog. He was just too close to see through the 14 power scope so I just swung on him like I was shooting a shotgun. When I pulled the trigger he rolled but I was working the bolt to chamber a fresh round not having a clue where it hit him.. He regained his footing and took off for the woods again. This time I was able to find him in the scope and popped him behind the shoulder, he went down for the count !
Yep, the .223 with the 45 grain TSX's running 3,850 is hell on wheels !!!!!!

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Butch, is that you in this picture or is it Santa Claus?