Cutting Edge bullet kills

[Big Jake Duke]

Here are a few elk some friends took at Tejon with bullets I loaded for them

Tejon bulls are unbelievable. Free range but due to the mild winters in California they get huge!!!

 

[TXAoudadKlr]

They perform as advertised for you with the petals shedding the petals making additional wound channels?

 

[marioq]

How do we get drawn for those bulls???!!

Hshshshshs

Interested too. Been reading on these and I am interested how the perform.

 

[Big Jake Duke]

They perform as advertised for you with the petals shedding the petals making additional wound channels?

Those two Tejon bulls were killed with 30 caliber 180gr Lazers. One from a 300 rum, one from a 300 win mag. Both were one shot kills.

The several guys I know used Barnes on these bulls in years before and all had to be multiple shot. Both of these were one shot kills. The wound channels were awesome. I can't tell exactly how the petals worked, but expansion happened!

I use the MTH style Bullets and I have good expansion with them.

CE is creating a MAXIMUS bullet for hunting expansion and they are rolling them out this year.

 

[Big Jake Duke]

I was looking for a picture of a 9'Kodiak that a was taken with a 235 gr 375 raptor. Again the bear dropped with one shot. The core penetrated and exited the bear, the bear was shot again, because that's what you do with kodiaks, but he was dead.

 

[bigngreen]

I've shot a few hundred of the 6.5 140's at 3177 fps and there good bullets, accurate and tuned easy but they do not create much of a wound channel, I rolled a bull and a cow at 800+ and the wound channel was about 3/4 of an inch, so little collateral damage it was just severing the spine that killed them, one bullet was close to major arteries in the chest and none were punctured, another the bullet turned straight up and exited the top of the bulls neck. Dropped a buck at 320 yards and it again had such a small wound channel the actual cause of death was a knife. Killed a few coyotes from 600-900 yards, lots of running but I did not expect them to open, killed a dozen animals that one season with them to give them a good shake and over all they just didn't fit my hunting style.

 

[TXAoudadKlr]

Those two Tejon bulls were killed with 30 caliber 180gr Lazers. One from a 300 rum, one from a 300 win mag. Both were one shot kills.

The several guys I know used Barnes on these bulls in years before and all had to be multiple shot. Both of these were one shot kills. The wound channels were awesome. I can't tell exactly how the petals worked, but expansion happened!

I use the MTH style Bullets and I have good expansion with them.

CE is creating a MAXIMUS bullet for hunting expansion and they are rolling them out this year.

If it's in the cards, I will have a field report for the 260gr .458 Maximus bullet here pretty soon.

 

[Bravo 4]

I'm with BnG on this, not impressed with terminal performance. Have a buddy (he is on this site) who said not to expect the bang flops encountered with Bergers and the larger Matchkings. They are incredibly accurate in my .408, and he said the same for his .338 Kahn. I will try the Lazers in other calibers though, supposed to have better terminal.

 

[Wedgy]

How do we get drawn for those bulls???!!

Tags are easy if you have $30K, seriously
http://hunt.tejonranch.com/guided-elk-hunts/
On a side note they are Rocky Mountain elk which are not native to CA, we have Tule elk here.

 

[Big Jake Duke]

I'm with BnG on this, not impressed with terminal performance. Have a buddy (he is on this site) who said not to expect the bang flops encountered with Bergers and the larger Matchkings. They are incredibly accurate in my .408, and he said the same for his .338 Kahn. I will try the Lazers in other calibers though, supposed to have better terminal.

Nothing will expand like a thin jacket and soft lead. That is not a debate. I used ballistic tips for years for exactly that purpose.

Cutting Edge bullets are unique because you can have terminal performance that is devastating from a moonlith Bullet. Not to bag on Berger, but how many threads and posts are here stating the Berger's 'blew up' or got slump nosed at excessive speeds?

In California we are stuck with non lead options. In my experience these bullets do a much better job of expansion than the Barnes, they will hold together at amazing velocities- which I have heard others complain about different brands, they won't 'blow up', they have a high BC.

So for what they are they are awesome.

 

[theodoreh]

Nothing will expand like a thin jacket and soft lead. That is not a debate. I used ballistic tips for years for exactly that purpose.

Cutting Edge bullets are unique because you can have terminal performance that is devastating from a moonlith Bullet. Not to bag on Berger, but how many threads and posts are here stating the Berger's 'blew up' or got slump nosed at excessive speeds?

In California we are stuck with non lead options. In my experience these bullets do a much better job of expansion than the Barnes, they will hold together at amazing velocities- which I have heard others complain about different brands, they won't 'blow up', they have a high BC.

So for what they are they are awesome.

Any more update on 180 lazer?

 

[Bravo 4]

In California we are stuck with non lead options. In my experience these bullets do a much better job of expansion than the Barnes, they will hold together at amazing velocities- which I have heard others complain about different brands, they won't 'blow up', they have a high BC.

So for what they are they are awesome.

Good points, I guess I've just been lucky and not HAD to use the non lead bullets for hunting. We did start using the M855A1 & M80A1 enhanced performance round in the Army, which are lead free.

 

[carnyman]

Wedgy, not sure about Rocky's being native to the Tejon but up north where I'm at we have them and I'm pretty sure they're native. I could be mistaken. California is also the only state to have all three elk species.

 

[Big Jake Duke]

Any more update on 180 lazer?

In what way?