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223 Remington Recommended Bullet Head For Tiny Ten In Africa
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<blockquote data-quote="Bret GRAVELINE Graveline" data-source="post: 2959795" data-attributes="member: 108926"><p>I'd go with the 62 gr barnes, having taken a few of the tiny 10, I understand the need to try and preserve capes, you can certainly make a FMJ work for you however a little more care need to be taken to insure proper bullet placement that sometimes can go beyond field hunting opportuniy, that plus the you draw blood you bought it rules that apply to a African safari might mean you have to pass on a shot that you may not get again, a Barnes bullet won't do much damage to a cape plus will hold together and penetrate should a opportunity present itself at a larger animal, I take a 257 Ackley for a light rifle, one evening while trying to call in a few jackals or whatever else might respond to a predator call I ran into a very nice and wide kudo that was on my list, a had a 338 for that, however the 257 was in my hands, I had a perfect broadside shoot at about 100 yds, the 120 Nosler partition took him down within 50 yards of where he stood from a double lung shoot, Barnes didn't offer a 257 slug at the time of that safari or I'd have been using them, a few years latter under the same circumstances same rifle same bullet failed to break the back of a exceptionally large waterbuck, I know the bullet failed as it was recovered 2 days later after I put him down with the 338 and recovered the failed bullet, a local here owns a large vineyard where he fills both deer tags every year plus the occasional hog and a black bear have fallen victim to his 222 Remington loaded with 62 gr Barnes, his he was up over 20 deer the last time I spoke with him, only one required a second shoot but was down and only the bear was a head shoot, and he has only recovered 1 62 gr bullet, a few years ago he tried a 52 gr tsx bullet that he recovered on a large bodied black tail at about 75 yards it dropped the buck, but he didn't like that he found the slug under the hide on the off shoulder,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bret GRAVELINE Graveline, post: 2959795, member: 108926"] I’d go with the 62 gr barnes, having taken a few of the tiny 10, I understand the need to try and preserve capes, you can certainly make a FMJ work for you however a little more care need to be taken to insure proper bullet placement that sometimes can go beyond field hunting opportuniy, that plus the you draw blood you bought it rules that apply to a African safari might mean you have to pass on a shot that you may not get again, a Barnes bullet won’t do much damage to a cape plus will hold together and penetrate should a opportunity present itself at a larger animal, I take a 257 Ackley for a light rifle, one evening while trying to call in a few jackals or whatever else might respond to a predator call I ran into a very nice and wide kudo that was on my list, a had a 338 for that, however the 257 was in my hands, I had a perfect broadside shoot at about 100 yds, the 120 Nosler partition took him down within 50 yards of where he stood from a double lung shoot, Barnes didn’t offer a 257 slug at the time of that safari or I’d have been using them, a few years latter under the same circumstances same rifle same bullet failed to break the back of a exceptionally large waterbuck, I know the bullet failed as it was recovered 2 days later after I put him down with the 338 and recovered the failed bullet, a local here owns a large vineyard where he fills both deer tags every year plus the occasional hog and a black bear have fallen victim to his 222 Remington loaded with 62 gr Barnes, his he was up over 20 deer the last time I spoke with him, only one required a second shoot but was down and only the bear was a head shoot, and he has only recovered 1 62 gr bullet, a few years ago he tried a 52 gr tsx bullet that he recovered on a large bodied black tail at about 75 yards it dropped the buck, but he didn’t like that he found the slug under the hide on the off shoulder, [/QUOTE]
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