Which bullet to use.

J

Jake_Sorensen

Guest
I'm heading out for my Elk hunt tomorrow, and I didn't get a chance to reload bullets this year so I was wondering what yall would suggest for a 300 win mag, what I've been looking at are the 180 grain winchester Gold Partitions, 180 grain Federal Vital Shock with the barnes triple shock bullet or the 200 grain Federal Vital shock with the trophy bonded bear claw. Most my shots will be around 150 to 300 yards. What do yall think would be best?

Jake
 
you have to find the loads that shoot well out of your rifle. Each one finds a fancy to a certain factory load. The list you gave was all good. I don't know if you need to shoot the 200gr Fed, because you get better #'s hypothetically out of the 180 Feds. I found that at the range that you are talking, it wont much matter. You aren't shooting rock chucks. Good luck on your hunt
One day left before I go,
STXBUX
 
thanks for the info STXBUX, I guess I should have said I have shot all of these out of my rifle and they all grouped well I was just wondering what info or opinions people had on the effectiveness of each bullet?

Jake
 
I have used the Trophy Bonded Bear Claw bullet for several years now and am extremely impressed with the performance of this bullet. It hits 'em hard and puts 'em down.
 
i shoot the federal vital shok in tbcc in my 30-06 and it likes them alot, they seem to be impressive so thats what i would go with if your gun like them
casey
 
Why are you using such a heavy load on elk out of a 300 win? all you need is a good 165 gr. BT loaded hot...much flater shootin' and still all the knock down... never had one get up yet... killed alot...but I'm a 300 weatherby man myself... I like the Barnes Triple shock, but steer clear of those Barnes teflon coated, they are good for target but thats it.... Too fast too hard for anything else, my bother loaded those for his bookcliffs bull hunt last year blew right though that bull with very little expansion. just too fast. ~G4
 
Send me your e-mail and I'll forward you an interesting article on bullet selection. Really makes a guy stop and think about what he's doing.
 

Click-a-Pic ... Details & Bigger Photos
Back
Top Bottom