Huuktonshooting wrote:I am in the same boat. Just got in a batch of 250 Speer deep curls. Loading them boat for 450 bushmaster and 460 S&W. Deep curls are on clearance.. I have some 240 xtp mags as well. Won’t have results until the new year.
Also got in a mold from NOE.. results to come !
In 9 years reloading for the 450b, unlike the FTX family, I have never been able to get
any brand or weight of hollow points to produce 5-shot, 100yd groups of the same small size. 3 out of 5 shots sure but never 5 out of 5. IMHO, any projectiles shot out of the 450b at modest to heavy,
safe velocities are more than lethal enough for my needs. So, as a justification for the more than 2k reloads sent downrange, I chose accuracy as an indicator of success. For deer hunting at deep woods distances (where I hunted), accuracy of any bullet I've ever tried, would have been more than adequate.
Despite killing my share of milk jugs full of water to test expansion, I've only killed one deer for all the times I took my 450b out. I began to think that the deer had advanced knowledge of my schedule and simply avoided me.
As I have lost all the feeling in my legs, below my shins, I don't go deer hunting anymore. I'm too proud to hunt from any kind of vehicle and if I did, that wouldn't help when it came time to track and drag them out anyway. So I'm relegated to testing at the local range and getting satisfaction from reading of other member's hunting successes.
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