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They look so peaceful there all bloodied in a pile in the dirt, snuggled up and all.

Those Sambar do look pretty damn big. Guess the Corelokt works on stuff a little bigger than our puny blacktail!

Good pics. If the Barnes bullets didn't cost more than Partitions, and if I didn't get MOA out of Partitions...

I'd think about trying them.


I do like the thought of 130gr ballistics and great penetration. Ain't nothing wrong with the ideas or execution.


I also have to consider whether it might jinx my EG. Don't mess with success!

Mike the bigger of the two is what i'd call half grown. They are only young deer for the freezer. Ive take them with my 358win also, nosler 225grn partitions & barnes 200grn TSX. Both are very good bullets, but the old corelokt has been a champion bullet in everything the 222rem upwards

Johno

That's very cool. I need to take better pictures...

Johno.. HALF GROWN? Those are like Elk then. I shoot some ammo for my .358 loaded with Accubonds. They work well on pigs. That is an animal that I haven't shot with Corelokts. I see you're from Austrailia. You have boar there. Have you shot any with Corelokts?

Calhoun.. That is a very nice buck. You guys and your fat buck Whitetail/99 pictures are awesome. I'm gonna come whitetail hunting someday.

I can't figure out how to load pictures up here.

Once upon a time long long ago, well you know how it goes. Back in the 70s fox skins were worth big money, I was averaging $38.00 a skin, took 76 in 6 nights, they were from out west and only went $22.00 a skin. But the condition of access was to shoot the pigs, my mate and I shot over 70 in 3 days, all 130grn corelokts from the 270, yes I had a sore shoulder

Johno

Talking of bullet size, velocity, and placement, the biggest pig I've seen taken went down with a 100 grain .243 Win thru the heart. It took 3 men to drag, and lift up onto a Bumper Buddy (which it almost broke). We guesstimated 400 lbs. And I know lots of poor folk who learned to take whitetails with a .22 LR. Heck all the 300 Magnums really do for elk better than the 300 Savage is make it so you can shoot from 100-150 yards farther out than the 300 Savage with the same bullet.... if you the shooter can handle that much longer of a shot!

Johno, those Sambars look delicious!
And that great Nebraska buck is definitely corn fed, Calhoun. They built a big dam/lake east of me in Texas in the 1970s , Granger Lake. The Corps of Engineers had to take a ton of surrounding farmland because it is pretty flat there for a lake, and they brought in Nebraska deer as an experiment on the Corps land. You can still get 250 lb bucks in that place, even though 10 miles away the central Texas bucks max out at 120 to 140. Good genes!

This is an old thread, but I thought I'd bring It up again.

So far 150 grain Remington CL factory loads are hard to beat for accuracy in my 'new to me' 99. The only load I've tried so far that seems to be possibly equal is H4895 and 150 grain Horn IL's.



I have a box of 130 grain TTSX's that I just opened. and thought I'd try those. I'm not interested in maximum velocity, but am interested in accuracy and reasonable velocity.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of published data with TTSX's and the 300, so I found the start of this thread interesting. (Not so much whose dong is the biggest part though.)

Both Ken Waters and Nosler claim 40 grains of IMR4895 and 150 grain Hornady (and 150 grain Nosler PT) to be the best for accuracy and I am impatiently waiting for the FedEx to delivery. I've ordered IMR4350 and will try that. The benefits of living far from the city out ways the disadvantages of going down to the store and picking up components, IMHO.

I have found that Hornady IL and Remington CL's to be very good bullets for game (and for accuracy) in many cartridges. I've never found IMR4895 to be equal to H4895 in accuracy. I'm hoping that this trial will prove that the IMR powder bests the H4895 in this rifle.

BTW, I had a bunch of 308 cases around (and no longer own a 308) so I formed 50 into 300 Savage. I needed to buy a SB sizing die and screw the die in past where it contacted the ram to get the cases to function in my rifle.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/12906556/99-hog
Not sure how to how to bring up old post, but link is above. Dead pig using 300Sav. with 130 ttsx

Read the whole post top to bottom and thought to myself:

What ever became of Larry Root...?

lol, Just be glad we're not subjected to his crap any more!

Lee

Who in the hell is Larry Root?

He was a major troll with a combative personality (kind of like Big Stick). RickB kicked him off the 'Fire numerous times but he kept coming back with different user names. Let's hope he stays gone for good.

WOW!

If anyone thinks H 4350 and IMR 4350 is the same bird, look at reloading for the 348 Winchester.

Then please explain it 2 me.

Thanks!

Don't be like that. It makes your butt look fat.

I have a 99-300 Savage. I have a couple of boxes of 130 TTSX and H4895. The Barnes manual says 40 to 44 grains. Im going to load a few 40’s, a few 41’s, up to the 44’s. I’m hoping the 44’s work well, book shows velocity at 2945. That’s not bad for a little case like the 300 Savage. It would be a fine pig popper.

300 savage 130 ttsx with various powders, primers, cases and so on in a 1935 savage 99. Hundreds of articles. All of these threads and barely any discussion of overall length. There's gotta be some general concensus by now. 2.576? 2.587? What seems to be working?