Varmint Hunter
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Center punched a bull moose with a 402gr Hammer bullet fired from my Marlin 45/70.
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westcoasthunter
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The rifle is a (JM) Marlin 1895SBL with a standard 18.5" barrel. For those who are interested, it looks like the bullet petals made their own holes in the lung and the bullet shank exited the opposite side. My guide originally said "no way is that bullet going all the way through"! The butcher said otherwise. LOL
speedengineer - Nice bull & cool video, congrats. I shot one a few seasons ago with a 181 Hammer from my 30 Nosler. The bull dropped in 10 seconds and went still in another 10 sec.
speedengineer - Nice bull & cool video, congrats. I shot one a few seasons ago with a 181 Hammer from my 30 Nosler. The bull dropped in 10 seconds and went still in another 10 sec.
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RockyMtnMT
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I take it the guide was impressed with your 45-70? What vel did you get?
Varmint Hunter
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Reaching 1,700 ft/sec with RE7 wasn't too difficult. I may have been able to get more velocity but don't like to push things with the lever rifle.
sierracharlie338
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Good grief man! Did you shoot a hatchet at it!?
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This thread is awesome by the way!
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This is a good one. 7mm 155g Hammer Hunter at 3200 fps muzzle vel on 200y muley. Long straight line penetration. This is where full stability is very important along with a bullet that can handle the job. This is a tough test.
new2mud
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Magnificent bull!
How much bloodshot meat damage on the near side shoulder that was busted?
speedengineer
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Thank you! There was actually not very much bloodshot meat, surprisingly minimal. I discarded perhaps a 2-3 lbs, but mostly because it was full of small fragments of sharp bone.
jevyod
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260 Rem. at 60 yards. High shoulder shot, DRT. 117 sledgehammer at 2700 fps. Not fast, but accurate. Never tried for more velocity as the first powder I tried produced 11/16 inch group at 100 yards. This is the 4th deer with Hammers, like them a lot. This was last years buck
westcoasthunter
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Has anyone on this thread shot the 181 HH or 199HH in a 30 Sherman ? Wondering how they do on game a velocity
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Wyoming cow at 986 yards from a 300 RUM 227 grain HH from a 7 twist barrel, cow quartering a bit to me, entrance ~6" forward on opposite side.(see photo)
On another note, after seeing crazy things happen with large, long for caliber bullets I am a firm believer that this is explained by marginal stability. Just because they punch a round hole in paper they will not perform on game if they don't have a high stability factor, hence my 7 twist barrel. Cody's .338 275 grain bullets at 2,113 fps should have gone thru 3 elk with the minimal expansion it had but only managed ~12", something to consider;
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On another note, after seeing crazy things happen with large, long for caliber bullets I am a firm believer that this is explained by marginal stability. Just because they punch a round hole in paper they will not perform on game if they don't have a high stability factor, hence my 7 twist barrel. Cody's .338 275 grain bullets at 2,113 fps should have gone thru 3 elk with the minimal expansion it had but only managed ~12", something to consider;
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