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You can't be from WI...you didn't mention "busting brush."

Round nosed bullets are nostalgic, as are many of the guns we shoot them in and places we go with those guns. They remind us of our fathers, family & friends in better/simpler times. They did everything they needed to do then and still do it now.

That's reason enough for me to use them.

Amen! Which is why I also ration myself to 3 gallons of gasoline a week, take the family to the soup kitchen for dinner twice a week and wear a jacket and tie whilst mowing the lawn.

Now where did those damn paper hull shotgun shells go...

TFF, thank god I was not taking a sip of coffee when I read it

I like carrying my grandfather's rifle and other older guns as do many other folks for the reasons I mentioned. Some of mine are old, the rest are modern.

Just wondering ..... How's those space guns treatin' you?

To a 'Galaxy Far Far Away"!

Haven't you noticed before? ?

I sometimes use 220's in my 06 and I've got no sane way to justify it except to say that I like the way they look and there is no reason not to.

We may need to send him back to "between flippant and glib" again, for an overhaul?

Sometimes I explore the edge of the envelope with no idea why or where it's going. Hornady makes some HBWC bullets for different calibers, the one I played with was for the .38 Special. The flat nose wasn't flat enough so I loaded them backwards over 3 gr of Bullseye.

They will decapitate a 4' barracuda and that makes recovery of hooks and stuff a lot more congenial undertaking than if it's still kickin'. Smoker Kingfish be the same. For you mountain dwellers what never fished the briny deep, them phoucers got some seriously sharp choppers. In vast abundance. And any excuse to shoot something is a good thing.

Can't compare it to a spitzer though, so take it for what it's worth. Or even a RN. I never shot a RN from that gun.

Inverted RN bullets rock.

I truly hope this clarifies the discussion.

Old guns, new bullets.

What range?

Yep, sure looks more dead than if killed with a RN cup-and-core.

DD:

Careful. Next thing you know some will be flipping a perfectly good partition and expecting to take the heads off the beeeeeeg toothy Bears. People have been known to jump to erroneous conclusions more than once around here.

SH:

You have to occasionally think about those RN, as in Roman Nose, Blacktails come hunting season. Always miss your pics of them when you were living up there. They is one cool looking Deer.

I went back to a Horn.Interloc 170 gr. RN for my 8 Mauser after extracting a very nice mushroom from a Buck that dropped in his tracks after going thru a 2.5" maple sapling. I thought that was pretty impressive.

So they are "brush busters" afterall. ......... I knew it!

Wellll, That was about 3 yrs. ago and The bullet is on the window sill up @ camp & the sapling was still on the end of Coon Ridge last Turkey season. The RN killed the Buck but the tree is still going strong.

I've shot a bunch of whitetails with the round nose. 30/06 and 308. Speer,Hornady,or Remington RN Core Lokt. All were 180gr.

All this talk of rn bullets!! We went to Rawlins yesterday, and I had some time to kill while the wife shopped.. Spotted a box of 7mm Horn. 154 RN.. Bought 'em will load them in the little 7mm-08 for whitetails.. Just remembered before I retired I loaded a bunch of 220 and 170 Horn. RN for my old 06, stashed them somewhere but not sure where.. Never really used them as the 06 has a B & L mount and it is a bugger to change the point of aim...

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