250 grain .458 Hornady MonoFlex

[ported45]

Is the first one on the left an FTX?

My guess is the .458 325 grain FTX.

 

[bamawoodsman]

Yes. It’s the first one on the left. It’s a 44 cal 265 grain ftx. Nice expansion.

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

I believe RDReed was asking about the bullet pictured in bamawoodsman’s post

here is a link to his bullet test
https://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/threads/110-yard-bullet-test.36018/

 

[bamawoodsman]

Yes I assumed he was asking me about the 44/265 ftx pictured from my bullet test.

 

[RDReed]

I believe RDReed was asking about the bullet pictured in bamawoodsman’s post

here is a link to his bullet test
https://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/threads/110-yard-bullet-test.36018/

Thanks!

Yes I assumed he was asking me about the 44/265 ftx pictured from my bullet test.

Yes I was, thanks!

 

[bamawoodsman]

Your welcome! It’s fun blowing up jugs and seeing how different bullets perform. I’m gonna do some more but I have a lot of milos tea to drink. I used up all my jugs.

 

[RDReed]

I just picked these up from midway, I suspect they are the same bullet.

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010678367?pid=117366

 

[bamawoodsman]

They appear to be the same except for the tip color. They may have goofed on the color and that’s why they’re seconds

 

[RDReed]

My order came in today, the so called "2nds" look perfect to me and even have red tips. Weird thing is I see midway has increased the price from $20/50ct to $30/50ct .

At that price there is no savings over the Hornady branded FTX.

 

[bamawoodsman]

Yes. Those are identical to the 44/265 ftx s I have. I think I paid 32 for 50 at midway USA.

 

[zach.trumble]

This is an old thread, I found it doing a search, but I thought I'd ask my question here.

I really like the monoflex as far as how it shoots out of my Optima. But I'm not having good performance on game. I have shot a few deer and not recovered them. I'm not getting any blood.

I'm shooting 84 grains by weight of BH 209 and getting 2060 fps.

Am I pushing the bullet too hard? Do you think it's going through without expanding?

The gun is very accurate out to 150, probably further but I can't shoot very well past that. But I've made a number of shots inside of a hundred that have not ended well. I know I hit the deer. And I get tiny little drips of blood. But not much at all. And I'm not recovering them within a hundred yards. Usually losing the trail somewhere in there.

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

I don't think your pushing the MonoFlex too hard. I've had great success using copper/monolithic bullets. This one was recovered from a large bodied buck my niece shot. Shot placement is key.

 

[JeffB1961]

what velocity are you shooting them at BuckDoeHunter ?