Pglasgow
I don't feel I can rely on his basalt pit experiements with PBs. I do feel I can rely on the experience of the many successful hunters who use them. but what about all of those that have had a poor experiance with them Personal experience and successful use goes along way me on this issue. I did offer my limited experiance
is man enough to take the ribbing and has the integrityto admit, as I did regarding T/C, that he shouldn't be advising on somethinghe hasn't personally experienced. I did - you did - and I do have some personal experiance
OK let's try this again from my perspective and I'll try to re-create what I thought I said and what I think.
PowerBelts are not a bullet I would use or depend on, nor would I suggest to anyone to use them to harvest deer class and above animals. This decision does come from some limited experiance and some personal testing along with an abundance of written information. I have said and I will continue to say that a PB is nothing more than an extended round ball made from very soft lead to allow it to expand to the barrel. And to be honest the projectile was designed to be just that so that it could and would qualify as a cross between a round ball (with a plastic patch)and a conical (swelling to engage the barrel) + allow many states to accept it as a legal substitute for a conical.
Again, I am not a PRB shooter, so I am relaying information in my mind that I read from various sources, but the points are: 1)if you are shooting PRB's from a ML you must make adjustments in how you shoot.... not to say that the PRB is not leathal if you in the correct manner. 2) if you are using a lead PRB or lead conical the wise person will go bigger than a normal jacketedbullet.
Phil, I belive I do have some personal experiance with the PowerBelt, all be it limited, but enough to feel that a lot of the negative stories that i hear about the PB
could be true and therefor I choose to use a different projectile. Idaho has forced my hand a bit also I had/have to make a decision about which projectile to use during the short ML season we have in my area. It would be easy to choose and use the easy loading PB, but becuase of my personal feeling I have chose to go to, what i feel, isa veryheavy conical. I feel i can push it along a little harder than normal and becuse of it's shear size not worry about the projectile blowing up or deflecting, it will hit and penetrate.
Lastly, I do not think I would tell anyone to condemm the bullet, because of my personal experiance. As I have said I would not suggest or recommend it for hunting. I have recommended it as a simple way to get started shooting a ML - it is the easiest projectile to load, along with pellets, and I would not recommend them either once you gain the experiance to use loose powder.
In this, FG is a great example, he beleives in the projectile and it works for him why would I tell him he is wrong, and I haven't, it is his choice just as it is my best friends choice, although if either of them would ask me it would not be my suggestion for a reliable over time bullet.
I happen to think that a Nosler Partition, followed by a Speer Gold Dot (because of costs) are the best bullets on the market for harvesting game... So am I saying the Barnes is not a good bullet, not at all but I do not have any experiance with them and
all the information I have read about them has been positive. Still I would recommend the Nosler partition.
WAAAAY to much space taken up by this flap so let us go each others way, after all that is what we would do anyway...