I have used quite a few bullets in the twelve years I have been MZ hunting. For Colorado hunting, I have primarily used the 350 grain Maxi-hunter ahead of 100 grains of Pyrodex RS and lately the 410 grain Hornady Great Plains ahead of 120 grains of ffg T7. The latter load has turned out to be a pretty good elk load.

When hunting in the Colorado rifle seasons or in New Mexico, I use sabots. The Barnes 250 Expander MZ is possibly the most lethal MZ bullet out there. I used three 50 grain Pyrodex pellets with it and was never disappointed. Except that the load, with the Barnes sabots, is very hard to load in cold weather. The past couple of years I have been using the 250 T/C Shockwave ahead of 130 grains of Pyrodex pellets (two fifties and an thirty). This load kicks less, loads a lot easier,and has about the same trajectory. It seems to work pretty well from a terminal ballistics standpoint. And the groups are as good as many CF rifles.

I have some 300 grain Speer Gold Dot's that my gun shoots pretty well that are just itching to be tested. I saw one of these that came out of a bull elk, fired from a .454 Casull, that looked impressive. And this past week, I tried some 200 gr. Shockwaves with some Jim Shockey Gold fffg that shot very well. Also intend to try these on game at some time in the near future. So many bullets, so little time . . . . . .