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I took two 8 pointers and a doe with the 450


and my little buddies took a large varmint

Nice kills did the 450 drop in their tracks?

They didnt crumple on the spot, but both bucks were about 100 yard shots and were thrown sideways and they stumbled a few feet and then fell. The doe was close to 200 yards downhill on about a 45 degree slope and she ran about 125 feet and tried to jump a small creek and pile drove into the far bank. When I dressed her out, the heart had a hole directly through the center of it big enough to fit a fist through, rather lucky shot considering!

This cartridge is going to perform much the same as the current crop of muzzle loaders using the same type of bullets -- given the same or close to muzzle velocity. I have being doing quite a bit of reading on bullet perfomance by these folks. Once the bullet leaves the muzzle -- it doesn't matter what it was shot out of.

A lot of the muzzle loader crowd have a love/hate relationship with the Hornady 250 Gr. SST. Seems that it does not always pass thru. However, in the two deer I shot, the bullet went clean thru. I had a neck shot that looked a lot like the one posted.

I can hardly wait until Wildcatter gets his 'kill" bullet out!!!!

Siringo wrote:This cartridge is going to perform much the same as the current crop of muzzle loaders using the same type of bullets -- given the same or close to muzzle velocity. I have being doing quite a bit of reading on bullet perfomance by these folks. Once the bullet leaves the muzzle -- it doesn't matter what it was shot out of.

A lot of the muzzle loader crowd have a love/hate relationship with the Hornady 250 Gr. SST. Seems that it does not always pass thru. However, in the two deer I shot, the bullet went clean thru. I had a neck shot that looked a lot like the one posted.

I can hardly wait until Wildcatter gets his 'kill" bullet out!!!!

On both of my kills the bullet passed through using factory rounds.
This season I will be using the 275gr Barnes for fun.

Same here!

I have yet to recover a round from a deer, the factory fodder passes right thru with massive devastation internally. In fact I also use the same bullet in my Encore 209x50 ML with 150 grain charge of triple7 and have used that during regular rifle season with no reservations as a well placed shot is lethal. But after getting the 450 the ML is used in it's season only.

Siringo wrote:This cartridge is going to perform much the same as the current crop of muzzle loaders using the same type of bullets -- given the same or close to muzzle velocity. I have being doing quite a bit of reading on bullet perfomance by these folks. Once the bullet leaves the muzzle -- it doesn't matter what it was shot out of.

A lot of the muzzle loader crowd have a love/hate relationship with the Hornady 250 Gr. SST. Seems that it does not always pass thru. However, in the two deer I shot, the bullet went clean thru. I had a neck shot that looked a lot like the one posted.

I can hardly wait until Wildcatter gets his 'kill" bullet out!!!!

I love the performance of the Hornady 250 SST Loc-n-load; w/stem cut off, over 150grs of pyrodex powder, in my T/C Black Diamond XTR. It has taken more than several deer at ranges from 40 -160yds with phenomenal success; pass thru's on all "boiler room" shots. The only shots that didn't exit were a 40yd neck shot & an 80yd quartering away shot. No lost critters! This is one of the many reasons I settled on the 450b over other big bore AR's.

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120lb doe @ 160yds; 20yd button hook then flopped