VAspeedgoat
Well-known member
This goes back to two different threads of mine, so I hope everyone that commented on them finds this one.
I have finally decided on my mountain rifle rebuild to stay with the standard 708. To all of you that tried to sway me from the Ackley improved version thst I argued with, YOU WERE RIGHT. I really did consider the .284 but for the same reason as the Ackley I went back to the standard 708. It all came down to the question, what if I dont want to reload one day? So, aswas pointed out, I really , dont see the big deal over 150 fps. Also some ammo gets closer than that to my 3000 fps benchmark. Sorry to all that pointed this out to me while I blindly kept moving forward.
So back to my new thread. I have been looking over ballistics rescently and wanted you guy's opininion on this. I was wanting a bullet that would be primarily for mulies out to 300 yards. The twist being if I can get it to shoot well, I wiuld also use it on pronghorn and the slight chance of an elk. The elk is a really slight chance. I have always liked pass thruogh shots on whitetails at home, and was wanting the same in mulies necause I panic when there is not an obvious blood trail. I also assume anything good enough for mulies will work on pronghorn .
That said, my obvious go to is accubonds and interbonds in 140 grains. I also am considering partitions. The realdebate comes ifi look at some sort of coper bullet. I have heard tht you should go down in bullet weight which translae to higher velociy thus better terminal performncer out of the all copper bullets. Is this true and if so is the 120 grain bullets heavy enough for mulies and possibly elk. Or am I asking too much out of one bullet and I need to have different loads to accomplish all of this?
I have finally decided on my mountain rifle rebuild to stay with the standard 708. To all of you that tried to sway me from the Ackley improved version thst I argued with, YOU WERE RIGHT. I really did consider the .284 but for the same reason as the Ackley I went back to the standard 708. It all came down to the question, what if I dont want to reload one day? So, aswas pointed out, I really , dont see the big deal over 150 fps. Also some ammo gets closer than that to my 3000 fps benchmark. Sorry to all that pointed this out to me while I blindly kept moving forward.
So back to my new thread. I have been looking over ballistics rescently and wanted you guy's opininion on this. I was wanting a bullet that would be primarily for mulies out to 300 yards. The twist being if I can get it to shoot well, I wiuld also use it on pronghorn and the slight chance of an elk. The elk is a really slight chance. I have always liked pass thruogh shots on whitetails at home, and was wanting the same in mulies necause I panic when there is not an obvious blood trail. I also assume anything good enough for mulies will work on pronghorn .
That said, my obvious go to is accubonds and interbonds in 140 grains. I also am considering partitions. The realdebate comes ifi look at some sort of coper bullet. I have heard tht you should go down in bullet weight which translae to higher velociy thus better terminal performncer out of the all copper bullets. Is this true and if so is the 120 grain bullets heavy enough for mulies and possibly elk. Or am I asking too much out of one bullet and I need to have different loads to accomplish all of this?