Hornady Round Nosed bullets are considerably underrated by those mesmerized by pointed plastic.
Ugly, Ugly, Ugly!
Had 150 rounds of those ugly .250 gr. Hornady bastids come with the 2nd hand .338 WM I bought about20 years ago. 15 years or so later, I got tired of looking at the ugly things, so I picked a high-end load (one grain under max, IIRC) out of the book, a different primer (on hand) (and possibly brass, too) and threw together the whole batch of bunch of junk loads to just shoot up. Screw any work-up. Rugers are tough!
Fuggers shoot MOA, drop like a rock at longer ranges, but since I shoot moose at 100 yards or less (mostly), no prob. Now I'm stuck with boxes of the buggers, since my ideal moose season goes like this... Take rifle out of storage, check screws, run patch down bbl, fire 1 round across the bench to confirm POA (I already know how it groups, carries, and shoulders).
Shoot moose. Walk up. Employ insurance round from a few yards out (had the crap scared out of me a couple times....
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Clean gun, put away for another year.
Kinda boring, really. Leaves me free to enjoy the hunt.
I'm probably gonna die before I run out of those ugly things.... I just don't let my hunting pards see them....
