... I do want to make it clear that the ferreting information was from a different section of the catalog and that by placing it next to the 250-3000 information I in no way intended to suggest that ferreting would also be an acceptable method for hunting African game, or larger American game, (even if you had a large busyness of ferrets consisting mainly of hobs & hoblets due to ferrets being sexually dimorphic predators with the jills being much smaller).
... same with the walking stick catapults, they should only be used in dispatching "marauding cat's & rabbit's" as they suggest.
My Grandfather only used his 250-3000. Fed his family for many years with it killing many deer, and yes, Moose. He took many Moose with it, I don't know where he shot them or at what range, but they fell down just the same.
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli more fun to shoot!
If guns kill people, does that mean I can blame misspelled words on my pencil?
If I encountered a "marauding rabbit" I should think I would prefer a .250-3000, loaded with FMJ's for maximum penetration.
"Be sure to place it right in the mid-point between the ear and the eye if you want a hope of penetrating into the brain. Elsewhile you'd best be prepared to withstand a charge, and have your Holland's double within arm's reach."
Yes, I played a bit with cast bullets in a .250, but not in recent years. I relegate cast bullets in calibers smaller than .30 to targets/plinking/small game, not deer. If I had a 7mm (I don't at the moment) I would include it. That's not to say they aren't scads of fun to shoot with, it's just that killing energy is attained with either speed or bullet weight and neither can be attained in sufficient combinations with cast bullets of .22 or .25 size. Just my personal opinion- I'm sure that someone will pipe up about Uncle Jake and his brothers all killing a ton of deer with a .25-20 in 1923, or Grandpa Elmo feeding his family venison during the Depression with a Flobert .22. Would I if I had to? Yes, if I had to but I would be wishing for a Holland's double rifle the whole time (or at least an 1899 .303 with 190 FN casts or .22 HP loaded with sizzling jacketed bullets).
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
Addendum: you might ask why not 6.5mm's? Molds of decent weight can be had in that caliber but typically those rifles have a fast rate of twist to stabilize long jacketed bullets, and that isn't conducive to long cast lead bullets which don't take to fast twist at the velocities needed for sure killing. I tried, oh how I tried, to work up a deer load in a M70 Featherweight in 6.5x55 but I just couldn't get that 160 grain bullet up to anywhere near a usable velocity with a soft enough alloy to guarantee expansion before accuracy went to pot (probably due to partial stripping in the fast twist bore).
An 87 grain lead bullet is the peaches in a .250, but again that 2000fps threshold (give or take) just can't be breached with a bullet cast to less than 14-15bhn for reliable expansion. That's a far cry from the 3000 fps that enables that grand cartridge to be a killer-diller.
Obviously I'm discounting paper patching of cast bullets and two-piece cast bullets but that's a discussion for another time and place.
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"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
