Who’s going deer hunting?

Oh yeah watch out for that yellow snow.

 

I’m in the stand now and it’s swirling . Sux

 

Its a .450bushmaster. WITH the brake its like shooting a 20ga. Without it, oh shit. At least the brake vents 90 deg to the sides unlike my Barretts angling back a bit.

 

Buddy of mine just got back from Elk hunting in Montana, -13 and blowing snow.

 

yeah that’s worse than my relatively perfect weather. I got lucky and had a doe come from what was upwind at the time and stop broadside at 25 yards. It’s been about 5-7 years since I’ve bow hunted.. I thought i stopped because it was harder. Still got plenty of daylight left too!

 

Good lord. I guess I don’t blame ya there!

 

My plan for next year is to build a smokeless muzzle loader. It will be pushing a 300-325gr bullets @~2800+fps. A 450 Bushmaster throws a 250gr bullet @~2200-2300fps.
It WILL have a large, tactical style brake on it!

 

How many grains are you planning on putting in it? 500?

 

Around 70 or a tad more.

 

Are the smokeless ml's custom built only or are there factory made ones?

 

Damn. That sounds interesting. I don’t know shit about muzzle loaders.

 

Mostly custom. Savage made one years back that you can still find for sale used.

 

How do you like that round? I built a .300 Blackout for shorter range hunting, but I'm not sure I'm satisfied with terminal ballistics numbers. Obviously the .450 has much better numbers there...

 

70? You shooting squirrels? go with 150-200, make it, um, interesting... ok maybe not. Sounds like a cool build.

 

Pressures man, pressures!

Load data is supposed to be very similar to the 458 Win Mag.

 

Check out the 6.8. We’re having great success with it on hOgs and deer

 

Well lets put it this way, the 250gr .450bm round hits a deer in the boiler room, it drops right there dead. There is a severe drop off after 250yds though.

For .300blk, Gorilla Ammo makes a 208gr subsonic round called Silverback that opens up into a HUGE flower petals.

 

Oh, you're a FIB then? Explains a lot.

 

I'm sure it does. Can't shake your roots.

Like I said, I've lived in WI for the last 30 of my 44 years, and living 2 miles from the border I hate absolutely everything about my birth state with the exception of the Bears (not really helping my case right now) and the city for weekends out with the girl. It is what it is.

 

Its ok, around here roads are just there to get to the next corn field.