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ORIGINAL: Chris W.
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If the conical is flat bottom, the rule is put a wad. Although it does not hurt to try them both ways. For instance, I shoot 70 gr of T-7 3f all the time in the White with a conical and no wad.
[/blockquote] My hunting load last season was a 410 gr. great plains hollow based conical and 90 gr. of 2f 777. It turned out to be a very accurate and consistant load. Off sand bags, groups averaged 1.75" with several groups running 1.5" at 100 yards out of my inline. It did quite a number on a doe and a hog last season.
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And your shoulder is out of it's cast???
How was the recoil with that load. I guess it would smack the crap out of Anything it hit.
I found it to be very tolerable, but I'm not really recoil sensitive either. Granted, you knew you had fired a rifle but it was no where near painful.
That load produced some fairly impressive results on the deer and thepig.The bullet was aflat point,hollow based conical and it producedhalf dollar size exit wounds on both animals. On the pig,the bullet entered behind the shoulder, angled up through the neck and exited just behind the off side ear. He didn't go very far, to say the least. The doe only went 15 yards with asolid chest hit.