Big or Bust

Very cool! Please keep us in the loop on load development and critter performance!

Where are you located?

Just put holes in stuff... They'll die, energy be darned....

We not on same wavelength... Have a good one...

Laughing... The point is equal energy produces very different results and a bullets ability to kill. Energy means crap.... I'll take much less "energy" with a properly constructed bullet for the velocity window 100 percent of the time for the results I wanna see.... And you still gotta shoot no matter what the math says.... Have a good year...

So what about KE between a Vmax expanding and fragmenting at 1600fps and a Barnes TSX at 1600 that doesn't as it's below the velocity threshold to reliably expand? Same KE with like weights and speeds but vastly different results....

Has it ever mattered?

Anyone who cites kinetic energy in any conversation has already lost...

Seem to be more and more.. I glassed up four last year and last week got some really cool trail cam lion photos.... They are all over...

If you gonna dial, stay away from Leupold..

I prefer Cloudcroft. Very few to no tourists, cheaper everything, and just as pretty woods with game.... If you want to go to Ruidoso it's a short but very scenic drive....

It's just simply the available bullets in .277, which are blown to bits by 6.5 and 7...... Even the 170 EOL is smashed by 6.5 and 7mm heavies....

I booked my thoughts down a bit more than that Lance....grin...

The .270 WSM solves nothing but adds more dope and recoil.... Congrats?

Good deal...

Nice Lance.... Thought those were preorder only but looks like you have a contact...grin....

What's the fun of that? Grin.... That 147 ELDM is the huckleberry...

I'd run a 6.5 SAUM or more specifically a GAP 4 S between the two as I like headstamped brass....

Part of the issue is you are confusing the terms calibers and cartridges and using interchangibly and me no follow but I think I do... Energy doesn't mean a whole lot when killing, bullet construction and whether you get an exit is more determining than energy going out the back side.... I agree with you, bullets matter much more than the cartridge and in today's golden age of rifles, bullets, and rangefinders, most cartridges are more similar than different....

Say what?

Check out Whittaker's Guns.... Great folks and lowest prices you'll find.

heck yes brother!

Exactly.... 100 yard groups tell very little about the rifle. Shoot some groups at 400-500 yards and then the rifle will talk... I haven't shot a 100 yard group in over 10 years I bet...

Shoot me a PM...

4-5 liters a day if medium to high activity. 2-3 if low. I half died from dehydration twice this past year and it forced me to change. BP off 75/50 and talking stupid. Not fun.