Lena could pack out a Tyrannosaurus Rex if there was a season open for ’em. We rode in on my saddle horse Rosie with a saddle mule named Red led by my best pack mule, Lena. The area we wanted to hunt lay about two miles into a walk-in-hunt only area. This load will always shoot through elk on broadside shots either through the ribs or through both shoulders. Or in other words they can’t go on because their crank case has been drained. Every big game animal I have shot with this load expires “very quickly” from a rapid loss of blood. 045 larger than the diameter of the bullet’s nose in front of it. I have found, through experience, for the cutting edge to be effective, it has to have a 90 degree edge and the diameter at the cutting edge has to be at least. The paper patch bullet is from Montana Precision Swaging and it has a wicked cutting edge or wad cutter type shoulder, which leaves pronounced full caliber holes in paper targets and game. paper patched bullet loaded over a healthy dose of Swiss 2FG Black Powder (45/120/500). The load I used on this hunt and trust in this rifle is my favorite, a 500 gr. I have made several shots on big game out to 300 yards with iron sights, however, after that target definition becomes a problem, i.e., it is hard to tell which part of a grey deer in grey sagebrush one is aiming at. And I don’t have to take my eyes off of game to adjust the sight because the sight gives off audible clicks for each setting i.e., 3 clicks equal 300 yards and so on. This sight is strong enough for tough hunting situations and the settings are repeatable for long shots. I have learned to just rely on the regular utilitarian barrel sight and the regular sliding bar on the rail in upright position for longer shots. With this rifle and my favorite 45/120/500 pp load, I have taken black bear, pronghorn, mule deer, elk and bison, most with just one shot. I have learned to have great confidence in this weapon. It seems like every time I tickle the set trigger on this rifle, something falls. Sharps 45/110, Bridgeport Model, sporting rifle with a Badger barrel. The rifle I used on this hunt is an 1874 C. Over time a couple of winter storms blew through and I finally decided it was time to hunt the herd’s traditional winter range. At one point we were within 35 yards of two nice 6 point bulls. From the opener of October 1 and through that month we hunted the high country or summer range, but we only found bulls! You know how that works you only see animals that you can’t shoot. No, he has not graduated to the Sharps yet, and prefers the old Mauser 30-06 I gave him when he was a boy. My 2006 elk hunt ended with my son and me each taking a cow elk. My 21-year old son Eric and I drew cow elk tags as our second choice in our favorite hunt unit in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. Hunting with Paper Patch Bullets in Sharps 45/120 AKA 45/110
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