We have an early season elk season going on right now and I thought I would try a different bullet available from Lehigh. This bullet is listed in their "Hunting Bullet" section.
I normally use the 458-300 grain DOA for ek, but I thought this would be an interesting change.
This is the bullet description as provided by Lehigh..
The 458-200 was designed to provide the sportsman with a single design for all game animals. From thorough expansion through deep penetration, this bullet does it all. Drop them where they stand! The advanced bullet design delivers exceptional accuracy with DOA terminal performance. Weight - 305 grains BC (calculated) - 0.197 Length - 1.100 Design velocity - 1,600-2,600
This bullet has been in the back of my mind for several years nows and I felt I was ready to give it a good try. Why??? Somewhere along the line when I was doing my research on the original Lehigh's I found a bunch of guys that were using this bullet from a 45-70's shooting western Buffalo. They were were reporting great success and a quick harvest with this particular bullet. That really peaked my interest especially shooting elk. I have hunted elk for a lifetime and have seen some things that really would amaze you in the amount of punishment some elk will absorb - yet not show much reaction at all. Believe me they are dead but some body forgot to tell them for awhile.
I am shooting the bullet from my 52 Knight DISC Extreme using a Knight 458-52 Silver/Grey Sabot. I am shooting it with 120 grains of T7-2f. Ran to farm last night to check POI, ended up shooting 4 clay pigeons... prononced the gun sighted in. I know this really does not mean much but when you look at the destruction in the ground that this bullet does - it was impressive. I am easily inside the velocity range suggested for the bullet. It is shooting 1975 to 1990 fps.
Hopefully Friday night/Saturday morning it will cool down enough to make a trip worth while. This morning at 3am it was 46* and at 7am it was 69* so there is not a large window of opportunity especially hunting by yourself.
