The 6 Best Rifle Cartridges for Moose Hunting

Field & Stream ^ | October 22, 2020 | David E. Petzel

[doorgunner69]

Uhh, 4600 is MV, not downrange. What was the accuracy like?

[gundog]

Haven’t seen any reports. It was designed for velocity.

[43north]

The guy who is doing my cataracts recently retired from the USA after “only” 30 years of service. He’s good. Before he came to N. Idaho he told me he used to do all of the retirees’ cataracts at Madigan in Tacoma.

So far only the right eye is done. Went from 20/200 to 20/20. Vision is still variable because it takes time for the new lens to settle in. Left eye next Thursday.

Thank you for your service too!

[Who is John Galt?]

45-70 gets my vote

Bet those noobs left the .577/.450 Martini–Henry off the list...

;^)

[TMN78247]

My “little brother of the heart” who is a MASTER handloader, gun magazine writer & retired LCDR, USNR has concocted an about 200 grain plain base, SWC shape, cast bullet that at about 1400FPS is equal to the “old school”, “high-speed” .38-55WCF load & is EASY on the shoulder. = Works WELL on WT, too.

My BIG GAME load is a hard-cast, GCCB 310 Grain (cast in an OLD, OLD, RCBS SBRN mold.) at about 2050FPS, that is an efficient KILLER of most any game to 200+M & spoils LITTLE edible meat. = On BIGGER deer (like AXIS or RED DEER), it usually makes a .36 caliber hole on both side of the game from most any angle & has GOOD knock-down power. ====> That GCCB load generally leaves a GREAT blood trail that a BLIND man could follow, should tracking a wounded animal become necessary.
(On BIG GAME it is an EXCELLENT “penetrator” that will pass through heavy muscle/bone to hit the vital organs of the torso.)

BTW, I’m “the friendly neighborhood cheapskate” & SELDOM buy factory loads.
(My homebrew CB loads are EFFICIENT “meat getters”.)

BTW, “Little Brother” also “concocted” (on my request) a SMALL GAME load at .357 MAG pistol speed that is PURE DEATH on Texas Jackrabbits, coons, coyotes, aggressive coydogs, BBQ-pigs & other similar sized game to 100M+.= It will take any game that a .357MAG saddle carbine/rifle is suitable for.
(I habitually carry a loaded magazine of “small game loads” in the pocket of my hunting vest in case I run upon “camp meat”.)

Yours, TMN78247

[TMN78247]

FWIW, so far my BIGGEST KILL with my remodeled Model 760 Remington was a feral “mostly Brahma” bull that was “tearing up fence” & that was “converted to 1200 to 1300 LBs of hamburger meat” for our council’s Scout Camp larder.
(I had NO way to weigh him undressed/”in the field” but GUESS that he was about 1800-2000 LBs of “MAD AS H” on the hoof. = ONE 300 grain, homebrewed, GCCB through the “engine room”, from about 80M put him down for good, though I put another round into his head from < 10M, as “insurance”)

Yours, TMN78247

[Rebelbase]

Varmit round? :-)

[gundog]

Probably clear the mice out of your ears. I don’t think it was meant to do anything but go 5K FPS, and it apparently never did.