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In my opinion the 295 grain is too light. I use the Buffalo Bullet 375 grain SSB. The 295 would probably work fine if you keep your shots relatively short.
I did buy them from Cabelas but it's been a couple years since I bought any. I did hear a rumor a while back that they might have gone out of business. So you're saying Cabelas still stocks them but they're not being made anymore? I actually got a supply of new bullets to try out when I get a chance. They are 400 grain Harvesters. Very reasonable price, I think they're going to be a good bullet as long as they shoot. Check them out here: http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item.asp?sku=00072H35040
Bob, I shot the Harvester bullets and killed a couple of bucks, no bulls. They are a hardcast bullet so they don't mushroom. They should have excellent penetration for elk, but I was a little concerned about the wound channel with the bullets not mushrooming. But the bullet having a semi-wadcutter face and squareback they should develop a good wound channel. I switched back to conicals to avoid plastic fouling from the sabot, not the performance of the bullet, also I muzzle hunt Oregon and I didn't want to switch back and forth in bullets, sabots or any bullets with plastic on them aren't legal in Oregon. Of course both bucks were complete passthroughs with good bullet performance, in other words it killed them. I'm really curious about their performance on elk, hopefully you'll get to find out during the late hunt. I believe in heavy bullets for elk, I shoot the 480 grain white bullet.
This is the address to their site which I'm not sure is active. It is blocked for some reason through my work internet. You could order online in the past. They've gone out of business a couple of times.www.whitemuzzleloading.com/ These bullets are made for the White muzzleloader and design to be squib fired before loading. I don't do that, I make a small plastic patch out of a sandwich bag the size of a quarter for my first load, I just can't hunt with a dirty barrel. They are very accurate shot after shot and load easily. I have killed 4 bulls and 6 bucks and all have had devastating results, dropping 3 of the bulls in their tracks and the other one travelled 10 yards. All of the bucks dropped in their tracks. I shot a 3 point blacktail in the ass at 20 yards with the 545 grain out of my .54 and the bullet travelled the full length of his body, shot out his neck and my hunting partner could hear the bullet zinging across the canyon. The buck flipped ass over head, pretty flippin' cool. Like I say I like the big bullets out of my muzzleloaders. I shot a couple of bucks with saboted hard cast pistol bullets and yeah they killed the bucks but not with the authority of the big bullets.
