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  1. 35WhelenAI

    Pork fat vs beef fat

    A processor friend uses 10% beef shoulder, he feels straight 10% fat is too much. Personally, with deer or elk, I grind my own burger from the rib sheath meat, meat between the ribs, and anything that isn't quarters or backstrap/tenderloin. That meat in and of itself has good fat around it and...
  2. 35WhelenAI

    300 wm recipe

    I've dropped down in bullet weight with the Barnes in my 300 Win and have been happy. What is the performance part that hasn't been what you want? What Hammer are you considering?
  3. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Here's a link for Black Hills Dual Performance video: I gather the 130 gr ammo you have on hand is for the 6.5 Creed? Haven't used this ammo myself, but should do the deed within parameters it is designed for (mv, bc, expansion velocity). I would assume all dual performance cartridge...
  4. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    As far as Woodleigh bullets go I can't speak to them personally. They are good bonded bullets as far as I have read, seemingly large expanded diameter by design with not a very high bc. For North American big game hunting there are so many bullet options that introducing them into the mix is...
  5. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Mac, don't disagree with you in the general sense. The outward fling created by petals that grip tissue and fluid is not to be discounted as much as I believe it is by the blow up the shoulder and liquefy the lungs sentiment. The outward spiraling motion of tissue and fluid is very different...
  6. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Nine or 10 years ago, as I was going back to school to get a teaching license and masters degree for a second career, I worked in the hunting department at a Cabela's. Was also their reloading specialist, if you will. There was a fellow visiting the store and set up his table at the front. He...
  7. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    I get more meat with a shoulder hit and a mono vs any lead core/frangible bullet... 😁 Seeing the after effect of Partitons (160 gr, 280 Rem, MV 2800), on a shoulder hit reminds me why I shoot monos, fwiw. No different than a traditional cup and core bullet or frangible bullet that is talked...
  8. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Exit, .358 200 TTSX 125 yards broadside 35 Whelen AI (2940 MV). Very little meat destruction on entry (no pic) and exit (shown) in my opinion. Exit side quarter removed already, now I was taking all the rib sheath meat off to be ground into burger. Lead cow at a trot as she led the group out...
  9. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    First pic exit on a small muley buck. 224 yds, .358 200 TTSX 35 Whelen AI (2940 MV). Second pic shows entrance from inside view. Needless to say plenty of expansion upon entry and needless to say they leave an exit. My very little meat destruction, had to trim up around the holes and that...
  10. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    Recovered .358 Barnes 200gr and 250gr Original X from elk. 3/4 inch expanded diameter for both. First picture is 250X, second picture 200X. Third pic shows side view with unfired bullets of each, and a 200 TTSX for length comparison. 35 Whelen AI, 2900 fps MV for 200X, 2575 fps MV for 250X...
  11. 35WhelenAI

    Best Mono Bullet for Hunting/Effective Kills

    You just hit on something about caliber, albeit I didn't see the post until now... I've used the X, TSX, TTSX as they evolved for the past 30 years. My go to deer/elk round is the 35 Whelen AI for the past 22 of those 30 yrs. The few expanded bullets recovered were .735" across the petals...
  12. 35WhelenAI

    CO Mountain Lion Ballot Initiative: Continuous Updates

    The current results will do with respect to constitutional adherence...
  13. 35WhelenAI

    CO Mountain Lion Ballot Initiative: Continuous Updates

    With that said, yep, there's what amounts to a shooting sports excise tax coming.
  14. 35WhelenAI

    CO Mountain Lion Ballot Initiative: Continuous Updates

    Need to put an initiative on the ballot to stop future initiatives on the ballot. The population centers control these types of measures. It's historic that population centers vote with their heart and not their head. There comes a point where we need to meet in the middle and agree to disagree...
  15. 35WhelenAI

    CO Mountain Lion Ballot Initiative: Continuous Updates

    Good work, Co so far. The wolf ballot box biology has turned enough people on to who truly needs to make those decisions. Arapahoe county is as touchy-feely and emotional versus rational as it gets, and they almost had enough common sense to say no. That's a good sign.
  16. 35WhelenAI

    HAMMER Bullets Performance on Game

    amassi, where did you read (quote, please?) I don't like his results or say he called anyone a liar? With respect, read the thread, you'll see where I stand just as I know you are an early adopter of this thread. For sure he didn't call anyone a liar. DagOtto, I apologize as I never felt I...
  17. 35WhelenAI

    HAMMER Bullets Performance on Game

    I like looking at pictures, however to say it didn't happen if there aren't pictures is calling people liars. If that's where we're at, I'll pull out with 30 years of mono experience after this post. Monos do a great job of destroying tissue to end life, doesn't matter what it looks like...
  18. 35WhelenAI

    300 WSM - Your Velocities?

    Yeah, I'm with you on what you're saying. -25" at 400 calculated vs -24" at 375 actual seems like you are almost on the money at 400 yds. The shorter range still is off from what you expect, but unless there's something wrong with an input, it is what it is and go hunting!
  19. 35WhelenAI

    300 WSM - Your Velocities?

    Agree with others to double check the inputs to the calculator. Velocity is where it should be for that bullet weight in general. With that said, to be off only 2 inches with the human factor at 500 yds and have what must be larger discrepancies you have mentioned at shorter range has me...
  20. 35WhelenAI

    Gun for Elk Hunting in Thick Timber

    He's saying an FFP reticle at low power is harder to see (gets smaller/finer) at 3x. The reticle is in front of the magnification therefore grows and shrinks as you dial up or dial down the magnification.

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