Like I needed an excuse for a .30 can....
Meat loss is relative to the hunter......I don't consider ribs and a front shoulder meat loss on a whitetail. I've shot many, many 140's out of .280 ' s and 180's out of my 30-378 with no complaints.
Meat loss in the front shoulder or through the vitals doesn't matter to me either as long as the bullet anchors the deer is all that matters.
Okie, how far away was that first doe you shot? In your opinion whats the max effective range on this gun?
I bet that sweet little H&R can take a bit more load too. MAN I want one of those little dudes!!!
I hope it’s all right to post this in the hunting forum. Please move if appropriate.
First, the little H&Rs are definitely sweet.
Caution: I have ZERO experience loading the 300 AAC. But I don’t know if the cartridge case could handle “a bit more load,” because it's so darn short.
In the Fall of 2013, Rifle magazine published an “AR Special Edition” that had an article on loading the 300 Blackout. Brian Pearce wrote that the case capacity is small, and that some max loads from published data wouldn’t work because it would compress the powder charge and actually bulge the case out. His article includes a photo of such a round.
Changing gears a bit:
During the worst of the ammo/component craziness, I read on some forum or other about a 300 Blackout reloader who used lighter bullets designed for the 30-30 Winchester. (I know Sierra shows
a 125 grain FNHP and Speer has a 130 gr FNSP.) I think the person was using the 125 gr Sierra, and seating the bullet out further (not using the “regular” crimping groove on the bullet like you would for a lever action rifle).
If that trick actually works, it really interests me for woods hunting. I hope the plain 30-30 soft point bullets would be cheaper than the premium stuff, and in a single shot rifle, you wouldn’t have to worry about a flat nose bullet cycling through an action.
Again, the previous is just based on what I’ve read and my own speculating.
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