460g No Excuses

hardness does play a role considering the shape of the bullet.

Idaho Lewis, I may have asked this before, but what lead mix do you recommend for hunting elk?

Mnoland30, Idaho Lewis no longer frequents this site. He has his own site but I do not know its URL.

Thanks. Was it something we said? He will be missed.

No idea mysef but maybe GM 54 or one of the other mods can tell you.

While I'm not Lewis. I have had extensive experience with making bullets, and testing hardness on game like muledeer, and elk.
I have killed a few elk with the Lee 500S&W bullet. The distance range from 50 yards to 248 yards.
With the Lee 500S&W bullet in my opinion the hardness of between 6 and 7 bhn is about perfect.

ronlaughlin said:

Dave (No Excuses) requested this bullet be shot with a load of 80g Blackhorn powder.

Between the rifle, and bottles is 25 yard.

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What was retained weight?

phalanx said:

Mnoland30, Idaho Lewis no longer frequents this site. He has his own site but I do not know its URL.

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Google; Idaho lewis forum

Thanks for the replies. So, Idahoron, you use pure lead? What is the weight of that bullet? How much powder? Do you get full penetration on elk?

Any real world results with the .410 bullet?

Greg

mnoland30 said:

Thanks for the replies. So, Idahoron, you use pure lead? What is the weight of that bullet? How much powder? Do you get full penetration on elk?

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I'm using lead that is between 6 and 7 bhn. It is hardened just a pinch. The bullet is 458 grains. This bullet killed the bull DRT at 248 yards. It broke the shoulder and spine. Then broke the off shoulder and was found under the skin.the bullet only lost 4 grains.
One elk same load blew through. Another elk was shot at 60 yards. That bullet crushed the shoulder and was found I'm the flank.

This is a Bull Shop 503.x400 gr LGP shot from a Wolverine with 90 grains of T7-2f and a MMP 50 cal. sub-bridge as a wad. The bullet was recovered from an elk shot at about 180 yards.