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Best Elk "muzzleloader Bullet" that I've found and (isn't) a muzzleloader bullet

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Westside88:
Great info, thanks for sharing. Is this the bullet you’re using?

Sabotloader:
It has been a very long time ago, but when I first started shooting Elk with a ML, I stared using Barnes bullets and then switched rather quickly to Nosler Partition bullets .458x300 grain bullets.  The were really devastating on the elk that I shot with them, close range or long range.  Then a friend of mine introduced to me an unknow builder of bullets, Dave Fricke.  He was making a brass using a German theory of Controlled Fracturing. These bullets were all that they were marketed to be: Accurate and Devastating using the Controlled Fracturing theory of operation. Since those beginning days I have never looked back.  Dave did end up supplying Knight rifles with the Bloodline Bullets, eventually create a company called Lehigh Bullets to manufacture both copper and brass bullets.  These days Dave has recently bought SSK Firearms and sold Lehigh to Wilson Combat who continues to make the copper bullets.

The Lehigh type bullets I will continue to use as I have been really succesful with these CF bullets.



This is an example of the bullet one of may favorite copper Lehighs



But my favorite bullets continue to be the brass bullets, 



With the purchase of SSK I believe Dave will get back into making a variety of brass bullets. Right now he only has one bullet on the website.  A .458x265 mated with a Harvester Crush Rib sabots for a 50 cal rifle.  I have only tested that bullet at the range so far.  It shoots Great!!

WSU:
Why did you switch away from Barnes?  They've been very effective for me on elk.

Sabotloader:

--- Quote from: WSU on August 24, 2023, 11:46:26 AM ---Why did you switch away from Barnes?  They've been very effective for me on elk.

--- End quote ---

I shot a couple of deer with them at very close range and they passed right through.  I did get both animals a does and a 3 pt. buck but I did have to track them a good distance.  I then decided I need to hit a major bone at close range.  From there I navigated to the Nosler brand which is what I used while rifle hunting.  Just my opinion but they worked much better.  The CF's work amazingly well.  Haven't looked back from them as of yet.

Just got some new SSK's yesterday.

Kingtr:
I've been using the 330 gr 50. Powerbelt ELRs for the last year and shot a deer last September and cow elk last December. With the combo of 90 gr weight of Blackhorn 209 measured with a good powder scale, Williams precision sights and good eyes I am able to shoot 1.5" groups at 100 yards and confidently hit a paper plate at 200 yards. I jumped my deer and shot it at 15 yards so whos' to say how the bullet performed after it blew a baseball size hole out the side of the buck from that range. I did shoot my elk at 165 yards right in the boiler maker. It took about 3 steps and tipped over. When i was gutting it I cut the diaphram and the entire heart and lungs came out like soup. There were no recognizable organs inside and no bullet fragments. I'm guessing the bullet explodes once its inside. Although there wasn't bullet retainage like you want to see, the shear damage at 165 yards and accuracy is enough to keep me using my current setup.

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