Noe 311-195-FP

[Ian]

All the while for two dollars worth of commercial ammo you could have had your three deer AND all the room and time that 20K in loading/casting gear takes up. Never apply accountant's logic to this hobby, you will NOT be happy! Don't get me started on machinery to make loading gear....

 

[RBHarter]

I did all the math for a new caliber and cartridge .
The first 100 are about 1.25 each presuming you have your own brass . In my case the last 2 I added were $1.34 and $2.25 a shot off the shelf . It makes me feel pretty good about even $20/100 . I also feel pretty good about the 5-8,000 in tools , most of which I bought at about half of market replacement value .

 

[Rally]

Ian,
SHHHHH my wife might hear you!

 

[fiver]

don't even mention swaging.
pretty sure my first 30 cal copper wrapped bullet run something like 2500$
woulda been more if I didn't have some of the stuff on hand already.
by the time I get to the 10-K mark I might be just about broke even with buying them at the store.
I shot 1 of them [total] last year at a deer.
add all of the ones I have used hunting and the gas I've burned up finding a deer to shoot and each buck is somewhere in the 400$ range.

 

[Rally]

Sounds like pheasant hunting. Just love chasing them though. If you add the price of keeping dogs I could eat a bunch of T-bones!

 

[Bret4207]

Looks to me like the idea of the plain old vanilla cast flat point hunting bullet working just fine is on display here.

 

[Rally]

Bret,
The wound channel was pretty impressive ,breaking four ribs at the spine. Still wonder where the bullet stopped at, but just about had to be lodged near the spine inside the rib cage, near the fifth rib.

 

[fiver]

yeah,,,
if I knew I was gonna get a shot inside 150yds all the time that's all I'd use.
it's more like 15yds to over 300, and unfortunately last couple of years it's been the latter much more than the former.

 

[Rally]

I have the exact opposite conditions Fiver. I’d have to sit in a new slash to get anything close to 200 yard shot. To be honest I never felt under gunned when hunting with a pistol. I did only that for about five years, just because. Most of my shots are under 50 yards. The under brush grows so fast here in a new slash it is rarely good visibility the second year. I always felt “naked” hunting Antelope and mulies in Montana. Always felt like someone was watching me when I took a leak. Lol

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

Rally It is really fun to get up close and personal to the deer.

 

[Bret4207]

The last 3 bucks I saw in the woods all could have been taken cleanly with a 32-20, and 2 of them with a 22LR. One couldn't have been more than 20 feet away. That's almost Wrist Rocket slingshot range!

 

[Creeker]

Looks to me like the idea of the plain old vanilla cast flat point hunting bullet working just fine is on display here.

I like that bullet. If I could have only one 30 caliber bullet it would be this clone of the RCBS 30-180-FN.