Originally Posted by plumbum
Originally Posted by saddlesore
I ow down....I threaded 405 gr 45 -70 slug under two fallen trees and killed him at about 15 yards.

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How did that bullet perform? Obviously it worked but I am curious how it held together.

Thanks

It was a dead on front top of the brisket shot. It probably ended up it the guts as I never found it. The next year, I shot another elk with the same bullet. ..About the same distance, but a double lung shot. It went all the way thru,out the other side. The elk was a little up hill from me. Folks won't believe me, but it turned, staggered down towards me and fell about 6 feet in front of me .

The rifle was a 1886 Browning reproduction.Powder was 3031.I quit carrying it after that. 13 pounds fully loaded ,too heavy to lug around and it kept my saddle shifted off to one side,unless I hung a full canteen off the other side

If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles