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<blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 3401113" data-attributes="member: 15054"><p>1:28 twist on that rifle.</p><p>I have also used the Power belt bullets with 100% sucess I use the 295 gr though and they were the Hollow point ones. no more than 90 gr of pyrodex.</p><p>The HP version will not mushroom like you would expect but instead comes all apart. push it slower like 50-80 gr and it does not shrapnel as bad.</p><p>I make lead inserts to stick into the HP and it will keep it from turning to shrapnel. This was an issue known to the manufacture and known to many hunters that used the HP powerbelts and pushed them fast.</p><p></p><p>Then the Aero Tip version came out.</p><p></p><p>That TC1000 bore butter will cause carbon ring down low in the chamber you will feel it when seating a bullet after firing one off.</p><p>Fire 3 or 4 off without cleaning or swabbing and you will play heck sometimes seating a bullet past the carbon ring.</p><p></p><p>I hate that bore butter.</p><p>Research it.</p><p>One thing though if you wait and be patient and actually hunt your deer most shots will be way under 100 yards.</p><p>And hit one with a powerbelt bullet and it is bang flop.</p><p></p><p>My first one was an 80lb dressed doe.</p><p>Shot at 75 yards in the neck with 295gr Hollow point copper Powerbelt with 90gr pyrodex.</p><p>There was a section of hide about the size of a dollar bill holding the head to the rest of the deer body.</p><p>Just about completely decapitated that doe.</p><p></p><p>Be very careful where you point those rifles as they kill like no other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="swampratt, post: 3401113, member: 15054"] 1:28 twist on that rifle. I have also used the Power belt bullets with 100% sucess I use the 295 gr though and they were the Hollow point ones. no more than 90 gr of pyrodex. The HP version will not mushroom like you would expect but instead comes all apart. push it slower like 50-80 gr and it does not shrapnel as bad. I make lead inserts to stick into the HP and it will keep it from turning to shrapnel. This was an issue known to the manufacture and known to many hunters that used the HP powerbelts and pushed them fast. Then the Aero Tip version came out. That TC1000 bore butter will cause carbon ring down low in the chamber you will feel it when seating a bullet after firing one off. Fire 3 or 4 off without cleaning or swabbing and you will play heck sometimes seating a bullet past the carbon ring. I hate that bore butter. Research it. One thing though if you wait and be patient and actually hunt your deer most shots will be way under 100 yards. And hit one with a powerbelt bullet and it is bang flop. My first one was an 80lb dressed doe. Shot at 75 yards in the neck with 295gr Hollow point copper Powerbelt with 90gr pyrodex. There was a section of hide about the size of a dollar bill holding the head to the rest of the deer body. Just about completely decapitated that doe. Be very careful where you point those rifles as they kill like no other. [/QUOTE]
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