What were you using to shoot those 500s with?

70 gr Triple Se7en 3f and RWS 1075 caps.

That is an excellent question... I guess that depends on if you want to recover the lead. I have given up on that line. I have a good supply now of clean lead, and will cast from that.

Cayugad - the bullets on the ground fell out of a box you left on the bumper of your truck before driving through the yard to move some wood. The box was blown into the woods following a cold front. It's about 30 yards to the East of where the bullets were. And those poor trees, they were victims of flinching. All those 1 hole goups? Now you know.












April fools! ....a couple days early

Man, and guys swear by using 150 grains of powder and here you are mowing down trees at 100+ yards. I seen a guy shoot the Smith and Wesson 500 hand cannon revolver into 10 feet thick of phonebooks at 25 yards and it was measured to penetrate to 8 feet and the bullet retained 95% weight after that. It is truly amazing when you think about it. I think that some of the older guns were maxed out at 50 grains of powder and took game well out to 50 yards with good placement. I think it has become a power and money thing now. I would love to get ahold of a 75 cal Brown Bess flinter but can't afford it. I seen an old timer whenI was in boy scouts at camp (long ago)load this gun for us scouts and we were about 100 yards from an old oak tree that had fallen and they cut this tree in such a way it looked like a sheet of plywood big and bright and had a red target painted on it. The guy said watch the center of the target, we all studied the target while watching him put the finishing touches on the gun load. He pulled the trigger and click, crack bang, right after that the target literally exploded into splinters and looked like a bomb went off. It was amazing and something I'll never forget. I think that's why I'm hooked on MLs. I just can't imagine what that would do to a deer.

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I was back in the woods today with a chainsaw cutting out a deeper shooting lane. I then started finding more lead and such, but one that caught my eye was this one...



I am not sure it that is a Barnes or one of the other copper jacketed things I was shooting. With a weight of 193.8 and the Barnes being 250 grain I suspect one of them. Nice expansion with it. Depending one which way you measure it, that opened from a .452 to almost an inch and a half.

Also something else surprised me. I had been shooting Saber Tooth conicals and found the plastic base of them almost 30 yards past the current bullet trap. That means the plastic base travels over 80 yards... I would have thought they would kick off before that, but the accuracy was good with them. So I guess that is all right. I am going to send Harvester a email and ask them about my observations though.