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  1. 35WhelenAI

    Different bullets for cow elk

    We all are comfortable with different ways to make a successful outcome, appreciate the good discussion!
  2. 35WhelenAI

    Merino wool

    Minus 33 is good for me. I am 6'11" tall (yeah, no lie) and their XL tall sizes are right on the money.
  3. 35WhelenAI

    Different bullets for cow elk

    Good post. Proper ethics is not about meat loss or gain in a living creature. With that in mind would overpowered be a 7mm STW (large case, smaller caliber) or a 45/70 (smaller case, larger caliber). Meat loss isn't about the caliber or the or the case size, it's determined by how a bullet...
  4. 35WhelenAI

    Different bullets for cow elk

    I can appreciate what you're saying, but I am taking a hard pass on head shots. Haven't had an animal in 30 yrs where a shot to the vastly larger vital area would have been more risky than a head shot. If the head shot is all a person has, sometimes it's not all about us, living creatures...
  5. 35WhelenAI

    Different bullets for cow elk

    With respect, head shot is a nasty wounding shot if not successful. Seen animals in the field with jaws hanging and the animal starving. Head is constantly moving. Cow or bull should be considered the same. If there's a shot you'd take on one to determine the outcome of a hunt, then it...
  6. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    DagOtto, I hear what you're saying. I am not coming at you at all, however, I can see where you say that. I've seen many threads where pictures and experience end up not counting for much. My goal is to stick up for the monos, and was trying (poorly) to head off at the pass the desire for a...
  7. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Hoghead, I can appreciate you are using copper in CA because you are required to, despite the lack of choice. Have read more than once guys saying screw it and still using lead. That's always a good look for hunters.... Good on you. Lol, I haven't had to use copper as a requirement yet in...
  8. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    What he's doing is agreeing that proposing an independent laboratory study on temporary and permanent wound cavity in gel is a not a good use of time and only serves to bring more armchairs out of the woodwork. What's your beef with SDHNTR? Did it come from this thread? You were defensive in...
  9. 35WhelenAI

    .280AI? Help this FNG

    I see the picture now... Nosler shortened the traditional 280AI headspace, therefore Peterson brass would be made to that spec vs being able to use a 280 Rem case for a dummy round.
  10. 35WhelenAI

    .280AI? Help this FNG

    Lots of other bullets if you can't find the Bergers, what range are you planning to shoot live game at? As well, what about shooting 280 ammo for practice, then you have fireformed cases. 50 cases of Peterson are gonna be $90-100. Midway USA has Norma 280 Rem ammo for $45 a box, that gets you...
  11. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    I've contributed a number of pics from elk to mule deer to whitetails here in the last few days, pictures and performance don't need independent data from another source. It's just going to bring up the "... but that is gel and not flesh and bones"... Other guys have posted very evidentiary...
  12. 35WhelenAI

    300 WSM - Your Velocities?

    For a 300 Winchester Short Magnum, which source lists 72 gr max of Hunter for a 185 gr bullet. Regardless, your velocity is so far out there as to be considered "insane". Does that not register as an indication of what pressures that load is generating?
  13. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    For sure, it's a sunk cost for equipment larger companies already have, and it's less money for new smaller companies to do CNC. Kudos to smaller companies for developing new products and seeing where things are headed.
  14. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Good point. Shouldn't take Hornady, Sierra, Nosler among others long to fire up the CNC machines and run the smaller ones out given it's easier. Especially if they use the same marketing and money they spend on everything that isn't copper for hunting. In any case, cooper has so many...
  15. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    It appears newer/small companies coming out with bullets are going with monos. Larger companies keep working with frangible bullets of cup and core type construction, and dabble with monos but aren't making their money with them, per se (Hornady, Nosler come to mind). Entirely my opinion...
  16. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Keep in mind, Black Hills Dual Performance is using Lehigh bullets from everything I have read if that helps with what you are documenting.
  17. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Fall of '22, my year living in North Carolina. .35 Whelen AI 200 gr TTSX 2940 fps MV, Whitetail buck 185 yds. Angling away, entry right side behind the ribs (2nd pic), exit left side toward the front (3rd pic). Only had to trim up to the entry and exit holes. Entry hole is the noteworthy...
  18. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Nice work! Can't understand how that performance is something people could not be happy with, lol. I can only imagine what that would look like with a frangible bullet.
  19. 35WhelenAI

    300 wm recipe

    As well. I am curious when folks go away from monos because they weren't happy with performance. Many times it's one experience. Typically, the animal is dead and has been examined when folks say they weren't happy. It's an old adage.... "At what point in the animals death did the bullet...
  20. 35WhelenAI

    300 wm recipe

    While you are at it, take a look at the 168 TTSX. Barnes lists a 1500 fps expansion velocity (as is the 175 LRX). All else equal, the 168 TTSX would fly a bit flatter given Barnes data velocities. Let us know what about the performance of the 180 TTSX that wasn't up to expectation and what...

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