Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
11-29-2008, 03:30 PM
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RE: Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
I use Barnes Expander MZ's in 250 and 300gr with Crushed Rib sabots. I fully intend to try some of the Gold Dots after the season and as soon as I can get someplace that carries them. I put this on another post of mine but here's a pic of the 300gr Expander I took my spike with last Saturday afternoon.
11-29-2008, 08:11 PM
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RE: Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
ORIGINAL: SWThomas
Is that the only Speer Gold Dot there is? How accurate are those hollow points?
Is that the only Speer Gold Dot there is? How accurate are those hollow points?
11-30-2008, 06:03 AM
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RE: Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
I switched this year I use to shoot Dead Center bullets they are a very good bullet but a little pricey.
I shoot the 300 gr. gold dots in my Knight they shoot very accurate at 50 yards very tight groups usually touching at 100 yards about 2 inch groups, use 90gr. 777 Harvester crush rib sabot
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Is that the only Speer Gold Dot there is? How accurate are those hollow points?
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I shoot the 300 gr. gold dots in my Knight they shoot very accurate at 50 yards very tight groups usually touching at 100 yards about 2 inch groups, use 90gr. 777 Harvester crush rib sabot
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Is that the only Speer Gold Dot there is? How accurate are those hollow points?
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11-30-2008, 06:31 AM
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RE: Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
I shoot .45 caliber 240 grain XTP's over 90 grains of BH209 with a crush rib sabot out of my Omega.
Can regularly turn 5 shot groups into one large ragged hole at 50 yards. Some guys don't like the XTP's because of reported jacket separation. I don't concern myself with that too much though since I'm not pushing them super fast. XTP's sometimes get bad mouthed but I'll venture a guessthatthere have been more deer taken with them than any other pistol bullet. It's only a deer. The die pretty easy with a well placed shot. If I was gunning for something larger than a deer, then I'd rethink my bullet and powder combination.
Can regularly turn 5 shot groups into one large ragged hole at 50 yards. Some guys don't like the XTP's because of reported jacket separation. I don't concern myself with that too much though since I'm not pushing them super fast. XTP's sometimes get bad mouthed but I'll venture a guessthatthere have been more deer taken with them than any other pistol bullet. It's only a deer. The die pretty easy with a well placed shot. If I was gunning for something larger than a deer, then I'd rethink my bullet and powder combination.
11-30-2008, 08:46 AM
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RE: Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
I'll buy some Gold Dots and Sabots today and also buy some conicals. I'll be sighting in my ML in a couple weeks and I'll see which bullet it likes best.
11-30-2008, 04:04 PM
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RE: Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
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I shoot .45 caliber 240 grain XTP's over 90 grains of BH209 with a crush rib sabot out of my Omega.
Can regularly turn 5 shot groups into one large ragged hole at 50 yards. Some guys don't like the XTP's because of reported jacket separation. I don't concern myself with that too much though since I'm not pushing them super fast. XTP's sometimes get bad mouthed but I'll venture a guessthatthere have been more deer taken with them than any other pistol bullet. It's only a deer. The die pretty easy with a well placed shot. If I was gunning for something larger than a deer, then I'd rethink my bullet and powder combination.
I shoot .45 caliber 240 grain XTP's over 90 grains of BH209 with a crush rib sabot out of my Omega.
Can regularly turn 5 shot groups into one large ragged hole at 50 yards. Some guys don't like the XTP's because of reported jacket separation. I don't concern myself with that too much though since I'm not pushing them super fast. XTP's sometimes get bad mouthed but I'll venture a guessthatthere have been more deer taken with them than any other pistol bullet. It's only a deer. The die pretty easy with a well placed shot. If I was gunning for something larger than a deer, then I'd rethink my bullet and powder combination.
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12-01-2008, 07:23 AM
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RE: Your favorite .50 Cal slugs?
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This bullet was recovered from a doe shot facing me with her head down at 80 or so yards. I was ina tree stand and when she dropped her head down to feed I put aimed for the top of her back right where the neck begins and touched it off. The bullet traveled through the neck/spine and entirely through the chest and abdominal cavities. I felt the bullet under the hide on the deer's left flank and cut it out externally
And in reply to your other question, Gold Dots are pistol bullets made by Speer. This is the 300gr, .452 bullet made for the 454 Casull pistol.
This bullet was recovered from a doe shot facing me with her head down at 80 or so yards. I was ina tree stand and when she dropped her head down to feed I put aimed for the top of her back right where the neck begins and touched it off. The bullet traveled through the neck/spine and entirely through the chest and abdominal cavities. I felt the bullet under the hide on the deer's left flank and cut it out externally
And in reply to your other question, Gold Dots are pistol bullets made by Speer. This is the 300gr, .452 bullet made for the 454 Casull pistol.
