Originally Posted by
flounder33
Tom,
My equipment is:
My White rifles ranging from a Super Safari in .451 to a Bison in .540 with a couple .504s in between and quite possibly another .451 coming soon.
Then I have my Knight rifles, all early mk-85s and built back when quality was job one at Knight.
Topped off with a Lyman GPR in .54.
Every one of these guns is very accurate and has a bore as good as new and there isn't an animal in North America that I would be lacking in equipment to hunt.
I have owned a couple of disc rifles and they were both very nice to look at and accurate as can be but after shooting the conicals exclusively for a couple years I just don't feel like shooting saboted bullets any more. It just doesn't trip my trigger so to speak. Just a personal thing I guess.
As far as reality goes, your reality is different from mine. I respect yours, You otta respect mine.
Art
flounder33,
The internet can be very difficult to communicate sometimes. I try but always fail at it. And i do respect your choices. I don't care what you shoot, you don't care what i shoot.
I try to give information or debate information for the people that don't post. You seem to own alot of White rifles. I think i shot most of them over a couple years in TN. They were all great ML'S, and they all had to be tweaked. I remember Bob Bowers and Underclock years ago bitching about them. I don't even remember but it all happened on HA. My point is just like Encores the Whites needed tweaked as well.
Conical bullets were with out doubt, the worst bullets i have ever seen on Hogs. I watched this for a few years not days. I have never had good success with them in my Flintlock on Deer size game either. If you read the article in Black Powder hunting fall 2005 it talks about some of the multiple shot kills with conicals. Have they changed since 2005????? Dont get me wrong, i know there are plenty bad saboted bullets as well.
I have shot a lot of different bullets, and have watched a lot of animals killed over the years. I have found the Lehigh to be the best by far over any other bullet. That is my findings with well over 25 kills with them. Is there a better bullet? Maybe, i just have not used it yet, or saw someone else using it.
You also mentioned Knight Rifles above. They really got off track on a lot of things. The Super Disc, Extreme, and the Elite had huge gaps in tolerances. I should also mention the LRH as well. That stuff is just in excusable to me.
I was asked the other day why i said the Triumph is better then the Vision. The answer was because it is. Out of the box it is. Here again my opinions only.
I can promise you one thing, i dont say anything just to get something for free. I say it because it is what i have found. If Knight doesn't like it, or Lehigh sorry that's the way it is. You would not believe what i tell them actually. And to be honest they all listen.
flounder33, we have differences no doubt. Adults will decide what's best for them no matter how right or wrong we are.
