Mustangs Rule
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They are a hungry beast of a bullet that likes to eat big critters like moose, elk, bear and boar. There was a long period when I shot huge boar on western barley ranches. Lots of huge black Russian ones too which had that armored cartilaginous shoulder plate that at an angle lighter 270 bullets bounced off of. Yes really! These don't bounce. Bury themselves and keep going deeper. Not good for small critters. More than accurate enough for most game field utility. It is the only load that really makes the .270 fit for things that can bite back.
Many years ago i would go out to the Arizona strip a few times a year to hunt wild true Russian boar there. There was a canned hunt operation in Nevade. A flash flood came through the virgin River and freed them to go into the "The Strip" and ruin habitat for Desert Mule Deer. Big Horn Sheep and wild turkeys.
To get rid of them the Arizona F and G made it Ok for anyone from anywhere to come and hunt them w/o a license. I took one of those boar with those bullets and they were so very effective.
Mostly I have not used that rifle since moving from Wyoming. Those bullets are no longer made. As I said above, I just had them for grizz insurance when hunting antelope in the high mountain meadows of NW Wyoming.
