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Post by deadon on Oct 26, 2014 7:37:01 GMT -5
I have a traditions carbine with a 1 in 22 twist and cannot remember the load i shot using a power belt bullet. help please
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 17:48:10 GMT -5
With that fast twist, I'd look at the 338 Platinum, all the way up to the 444 flat point.
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Post by magnus on Dec 17, 2014 13:02:20 GMT -5
You think the 338 Platinum would group out of a 1:48 Lyman Deerstalker?
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Post by bestill on Dec 17, 2014 15:28:12 GMT -5
Have you considered going with a Barnes 209 tez sabot load seems it be great with1-22 twist
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Post by 10ga on Dec 17, 2014 17:57:29 GMT -5
In all my smokers "back in the day" I ended up shooting mostly black but Pyro P and 777 were used sometimes. For "belted" bullets and I started with the original "black belt" bullets, I used anywhere from 80 to 90 grains of powder. 85 to 90 grains of the FF and 80 to 85 grains of the finer FFF grade. Eventually came to prefer the 295 gr. and 245 gr. bullets. With load development all shot pretty good considering. Shot them in 2 different Firehawk slamfires and a Lyman deerstalker and a cabelas sporterized hawken type with a 48 twist. Had scopes on the slamfires and open sights on the hammer guns and the loads worked good. My suggestion is 85 grains of fff and the 295 gr. belted for a starting load. Good shooting, 10
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Post by mike243 on Sept 23, 2015 15:43:53 GMT -5
In my short carbine only 90g of powder and a 295g powerbelt worked great,any more powder and it was all over the place. My optima 100+ of 777 or Pyrodex
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Post by bphunter1974 on Mar 15, 2021 17:09:35 GMT -5
Anyone have good terminal performance from powerbelts?
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Post by mike243 on Mar 16, 2021 6:08:40 GMT -5
I have never lost a deer with them and most were bang flops due to shooting for heart/ lungs and most of the time the lungs were jellied , rare for a pass thru but only needed to track 1 that jumped as I hit the trigger, hit the liver and she went 75y. I have read of a lot of folks loosing deer with them but also have read same with every other caliber of rifle, lost the biggest buck I ever shot with a 3030, suspect under spine and too high for lungs. I shoot a 300wm most of rifle season but the 243 hasn't ever let me down, son carries the 3030 once in awhile but I quit after the lost deer.
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