124 Hammer. .260 rem.
I genuinely do not understand the over analyzing of bullets here. It’s mostly nonsense to me. Put bullets where they belong and animals die easily. It’s that simple. Shoot the bullet that is most accurate in your gun and allows you to place it where you want it most confidently. There’s not much more to it. All this chatter about minimum velocity only applies on the extremes. IMO, we spend too much time obsessing over those ballistic extremes which are unlikely to happen anyway, and far too little time studying and learning what matters…. Scouting, learning animal behavior, patterns and terrain in your area. Put the ballistic calculator and internet minutiae away and learn about your quarry. That’s what matters way more than bullet construction or cartridge choice.
This site also has an odd obsession with small caliber bullets and massive destruction. I don’t get it. Just to prove a point? I see so many pics here with the front half of an animal blown apart and bloodshot to the point of being unusable. Why? Just for the pics of the gore? Lame. I sure as hell don’t want that much meat loss and questionable politics aside, whether it’s truly bad or not, I don’t know and don’t care, I simply don’t want all that lead spray in my food either.
Give me a modest, but not excessive, wound channel that kills the animal cleanly and quickly, which doesn’t ruin half my meat and doesn’t put excessive lead in my food, any day over a grenade. That’s what Hammers, LRX, TTSX’s, and CX’s do out to any reasonable range. I’ve seen it literally several hundreds of times with monos. Or the same could be said about most any other hunting bullet too, for that matter. The endless questioning of effectiveness and the obsession over excessive bullet destruction on this site just baffles me. No thanks. Just hunt.
