Re: 208g A-Max 30 cal.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NRF</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sandwarrior</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bob L. Swagger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">H-1000 is the best for them, out of a .300 win mag.</div></div>
Yes, out of the .300 WM. I was referring to shooting them out of the .308 and 30-06. H1000 was definitely my preference when I owned a really good .300 WM </div></div>
My choice was RL 22 with CCIBR2 Norma brass shooting at 3120 lights out. I sold over a thousand because of the bad things I heard about " do not use for game " although I killed two of my best whitetails with them down without a flinch I guess it turns out a high expansion bullet needs to be put in the boiler room, but my 183 gross whitetail I had no other chance but to put it high in his neck, it turned out ........... Ya dropped in his tracks!
In saying i was happy to stop my sales and save a few hundred loaded and unloaded, for future use. They are great! Let me know who's looking I'm still finding them just started shooting Bergers because of the bad hipe I was reading.</div></div>
I know what you mean. I've heard all kinds of "can't do this with that bullet, can't do that with this bullet...." stories. The .208 A-maxs will pound deer, no question. All my life I've remembered going out as a kid with my dad and uncle and shooting deer out in the center of Nevada. Now these are big mulies, from which I've seen tend to be a little dumber and not as tenacious when hanging on to life like whitetails. But, all they ever used were then standard grade 85-100 gr. soft-points {added: from .243's}. My uncle hit a huge 4 pt. (remember western count 4 on each side, not counting eye-guard) in the neck down in the bottom of a side canyon. He dropped like a sack of 'taters. My dad made a bad shot on a forky (2 ea. side) later that day and blew one leg off almost. The next shot killed him though. We didn't get a lot of meat from him. My dad's best deer though was huge (bigger than my uncles) 34 1/2" 4 pt. that should have made the book....if my dad had just gone to the Fish and Game office and got it scored. We knew a couple wardens that lived near us and both said it would've made the national book. For sure it would've made the State book.
Yep, bullet placement is about 96.8% of how to kill a deer. Terminal ballistics isn't critical unless you have a bad shot angle.
