ORIGINAL: Zugunruhe
Anyone ever tried these:
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/bulletselect/index.htm
They look interesting, and the price is right. Cheaper than a lot of brand name pistol bullets.
Bullet it is a .44 cal. 325 gr. long flatnose design with smooth sides designed to be shot out of the MMP/Knight green high pressure sabots. BC is a respectible .231 and they are available in .429/.430/.431 diameters.
At $15.25 for 50, I might add them to my bullet tests for 2008. Speaking of which, does anyone have a preference for one bullet diameter over another when it comes to .44's?
Ii have not shot them, but in this MLer penetration test the cast bullets penetrated the best (61" into Clay):
http://www.snipersparadise.com/tsmag/July03/TSD%20Wound%20Chart-MZ.xls
In the book Rifle Bullets for the Hunter, there is a whole chapter on Cast bullets, my conclusion from reading the chapter is that that are excellent with a FLAT nose at standard ML ranges and velocities. They are also what the folks use for really big game in Africa---solids. Bad thing about them, little expansion, so no large wound channel, but the flat nose causes a large splash. I recall reading that Bryce Towsley, who wrote the MLer chapter of that book, liked the Sierra Flat Nose, have not tried those either.
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