Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Premiums Really Necessary in a 338-06?

Another silly-azzed thread. Go buy a box of 50 210 gr Partition's and dial in said rifle and shoot deer, elk, moose and bear and, assuming one can hit, kill 30 critters with said box. Save a nickel otherwise.

Another silly-azzed thread. Go buy a box of 50 210 gr Partition's and dial in said rifle and shoot deer, elk, moose and bear and, assuming one can hit, kill 30 critters with said box. Save a nickel otherwise.

By "higher end",and "premium" do we mean bullets that expand when they are supposed to,and penetrate deeper than they might sometimes need to, instead of flying to flinders when they hit something?

I'm trying to recall when uniform expansion and penetration became bad things(?).We've been trying to achieve both since we first wrapped lead cores in alloy envelopes so they'd withstand high velocity trips down a rifled bore. 100+ years later, we're still doing the same things.

Maybe if I were culling does by the hundreds, or 500 donkeys in 10 days in Australia I'd be concerned about the price of bullets;but for most hunting we get to do,worrying about the cost of a bullet fired from a $2000 rifle, under a $1000 scope,on a hunt taking your time and/or money (or both), seems to me to be like Obamanomics.



What skews the conversation is that some animals end up dead even when hit with shiddtt bullets. (See Kliks post above). This leads to false and deceptive conclusions because eventually you will run out of luck. YMMV.

Shoot what you like, like what you shoot, and remember shot placement typically trumps.

I've never used too much gun or too good a bullet however.

A gentleman and his daughter both successfully used 180gr BT's out of a 338-06 on their Bison.

Well I broke down and ordered a few of the Nosler 225 Accubonds while SPS has them on sale. They oughtta work just fine for deer and wapiti.