entoptics
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Before I get a herd of folks screaming NON OF THE ABOVE!!!!!
Those are the choices I have. Period. End of story.
Why? (not "end of story" I guess) I'm loading up some ammo for a buddy who's new to shooting. The rifle is an older 700 ADL, and he's just dipping his toes in the water. He hopes to learn to shoot, perhaps hunt NY whitetail, and maybe even someday do some "big game hunting out west". If the latter ever happens, I'll be tailoring him an appropriate load at that time.
Thing is, he's got a little bit of a "zombie apocalypse" thing (no worse than the rest of us, I assure you), and would like to at least possess something more "lethal" than the 178 ELD-M load I'm gonna feed him for targets and whitetail.
All I have in hand is a few leftovers of the aforementioned 168 TTSX, 165 Interbond, and 178 ELD-X. I'm not gonna buy $40 worth of bullets for 10 rounds to go in his "what if a bear?!?!" kit. He won't either. The TTSX and IB didn't shoot well in my 308 LAR-8 some years back, so they're essentially free as they've been collecting dust on my shelf.
So...Which do you think would be the best for relatively close range penetration/doom/destruction on lions and tigers and bears (oh my!)? I'm not going to go into load development beyond some chrony data to find a decent speed.
I'm leaning towards the TTSX, but have absolutely ZERO experience killing anything with any of them.
Those are the choices I have. Period. End of story.
Why? (not "end of story" I guess) I'm loading up some ammo for a buddy who's new to shooting. The rifle is an older 700 ADL, and he's just dipping his toes in the water. He hopes to learn to shoot, perhaps hunt NY whitetail, and maybe even someday do some "big game hunting out west". If the latter ever happens, I'll be tailoring him an appropriate load at that time.
Thing is, he's got a little bit of a "zombie apocalypse" thing (no worse than the rest of us, I assure you), and would like to at least possess something more "lethal" than the 178 ELD-M load I'm gonna feed him for targets and whitetail.
All I have in hand is a few leftovers of the aforementioned 168 TTSX, 165 Interbond, and 178 ELD-X. I'm not gonna buy $40 worth of bullets for 10 rounds to go in his "what if a bear?!?!" kit. He won't either. The TTSX and IB didn't shoot well in my 308 LAR-8 some years back, so they're essentially free as they've been collecting dust on my shelf.
So...Which do you think would be the best for relatively close range penetration/doom/destruction on lions and tigers and bears (oh my!)? I'm not going to go into load development beyond some chrony data to find a decent speed.
I'm leaning towards the TTSX, but have absolutely ZERO experience killing anything with any of them.