ORIGINAL: charlie brown
Heck HDW - I have some 165 grain lead bullets loaded in my .30-06 for cats!! Those guys are putting along at about 1400 fps, which should work just fine without doing much damage at all (If I ever actually get to get behind some hounds, lol). I was even thinking of loading up some 150, 165, 180, or even 220 RN Hornady's at lower velocities to work on cats. I am not sure completely yet. I am still working on a decent load in my other .30-06 with Partitions for deer hunting, and trying to find a load for my Yugo Mauser (which I must add is coming along quite well actually!).
how do you like that yugo mauser? there might be a good chance my grandfather milled the reciever on it. During WW2 my grandfather was a POW in Yugoslavia and milled recievers for a mauser plant there. I thought about buying one myself J&G was selling them here for around 180 bucks if i remember correctly.
I have a pretty good load going for my Russian M44, I took several boxes of russian brown bear 203 grain bimetal soft points pulled the POS bullets and dumped that dirty powder and then loaded the primed cases back up with H4350 and 180 grain swift sciroccos im getting excellent groups at 100 yards with open sights off a sand bag just a hair over an inch and a half I'll post pics tomorrow. I want to use them on black bear if i ever get drawn.