Here's my situation. I have a numbe rof deer stands surrounding large CRP fields. The shots could easily be taken with my 300WinMags, but this is a shotgun zone.

I did shoot a 270 pistol for a while but couldn't hold groups tighter than 12" at 100 yards off hand, so switched to a TC Encore MZ with a Precision Rifle 300 grn slug pushed by 150 grns.

I've been hunting a large deer, 275# or so and would like enuf power to put the deer down if I "have" to go thru a scalpula.

I did shoot a 235#er at 285 yards last year and did not like the penetration that I saw, but may have gone thru a 'branch' on the way. Don't know as I shot twice. But, the slug did NOT exit and had not gone thru any bones on the way to severing the hepatic artery.

So, in 2006, I had a shot at a 225# doe that I decided to take, but the deer turned down a trail that opened, but only at 385 yards.

I had LOTS of setup time, so I lasered, used a rail, figured drop and lead, but, in the end, decided to stand down.

So, after I was wondering what else I could have done, I started to think about tungsten cores.

I've thought about three ways to go:
1) Sintering powdered tungsten into lead and molding it myself, most probably in 45 cal with soft plastic sabots. Would probably use a 225grn mold, yielding a 325 grn to 370 grn tungsten slug.

2) Using Barnes MRXs in 308 cal and put them into some hard plastic 50/308 sabots I've got from a BAR application.

3) Using Speer 458 solid tungsten 500 grn African Grand Slams in a soft plastic sabot.

Aside from insanity, does anyone have any comments??