Friday, February 12, 2010

What load should i use for deer?

I have a Mosin and was wondering if i could use Silver Bear 203 gr. on deer at one hundred yards? If not tell me some other good loads and companies.What load should i use for deer?
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I am assuming you are referring to this stuff......





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If this is what you want to use then refrain from using it... This stuff is FMJ ( Full Metal jacket).... You must use soft point ammunition... This FMJ will quite possibly make a hole thru the animal and exit out the other side, not doing enough damage to drop the animal immediately... The deer may run off far enough away where you will never find it... Then it may die a slower painfull death. This is not humane... Use SP (Soft Point).... It will expand, do much more tissue damage and drop the deer much faster....





Use this stuff......


http://www.jgsales.com/product_info.php/鈥?/a>What load should i use for deer?
That rifle will work fine for taking deer or any other game that you hunt with a large caliber rifle. The problem you have here is that you will probably have a hard time finding the right ammo for the job. You may have to have ammo made for you by someone who reloads bullets.





As mentioned you do not want to use FMJ or bal ammo. You want a pointed soft point (lead tip bullet) or a round nose (lead tip bullet). Any grain of bullet from 150 on up to a 200 grain will be fine. To me 200 grain is over kill for deer.





I use to use 180 grain to take deer, but have recently switched to 150 grain. I reload my own ammo and like the idea of being able to cater my ammo to my liking instead of buying factory ammo that I know nothing about.





The Mosin Nagant's I see are chambered in 7.62x54R and again you will not find hunting ammo in that caliber at your local Wal-Mart or your local sporting goods store. You will find possibly at your local sporting goods store and online all sorts of ammo, but it will most likely be in FMJ's.





If Silver Bear makes a pointed soft point in the 203 grain then that will work, but I don't know and haven't seen any ammo in that caliber for hunting.
I have to confess on the front end that I don't know that particular bullet, but in general, anything with that much sectional density tends on occasion to punch through both lungs without setting up, leaving you with a tedious job of blood-trailing. It's certainly better to have too much penetration than too little, but if I were doing it, I'd handload with something along the lines of the Hornady 174 grain roundnose. With its SD of .255, it fits right into that .24-.28 range that seems the best compromise for deer.
just about any soft pointed bullet from about 165 grains or heavier will humanly kill deer with the velocity produced by the MN cartridges,





The MN (and most other battle rifles from that era) are all near or equal to .30-06 for performance... it's a matter of bullet construction-stay away from metal clad, ball or FMJ bullets and your good to go.
In that caliber, be sure to use a soft-point bullet for the best results. The FMJ military-surplus stuff will more likely just go through a deer and not make a clean kill.
If it is a soft point bullet it will work.
as long as it is a soft point bullet you will be fine
It depends on what kind of deer, and how far. Any 30-06 gun works at about 100 yards, but the farther the target the more it drops. A 243 is a good light gun that works at long ranges because it doesnt drop.

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