Thread: Tikka?

Originally Posted by Scribe

This 270 problem spread over into the meathunting phase as well, We had as you mentioned blow-ups where the projectile hit bone making a big hole and pumping gut gas and contents all through the meat, so many of the carcases went off before we could get them to the chiller. Pure fly bait most of them

Or if the projectile missed bone it would rip through without expanding. We used to say if you had three deer standing in a line it would kill the third one cleanly and you would spend the rest of the day blood trailing the other two.

It was always great handling the carcases shot through the neck or ribs with the trebbly. A little bit of moss dipped in pepper or flyspray and they would keep for five days even in the summer if you kept them dry.

So they were persisted with? Did anyone try and change the projectile they were supplied with? Would be interesting to know what the projectiles were?
Again it sounds like a poorly constructed bullet, something like a nosler partition that expands rapidly to a point and then holds together would have probably gone a long way to solving these issues as well as going to a 150gr bullet (u have no idea why anyone uses 130gr bullets in a 270 except for mono metals, 150s are just better!)

I see your point with the trebbly, small fast bullet through the ribs disintegrating and making a mess of the vitals and not exiting,perfect for what you were doing.

Wouldn't have been very reliable hitting heavy bone though! At least you were supplied good quality ammo for the 222.😊

Originally Posted by Spudattack

So they were persisted with? Did anyone try and change the projectile they were supplied with? Would be interesting to know what the projectiles were?
Again it sounds like a poorly constructed bullet, something like a nosler partition that expands rapidly to a point and then holds together would have probably gone a long way to solving these issues as well as going to a 150gr bullet (u have no idea why anyone uses 130gr bullets in a 270 except for mono metals, 150s are just better!)

I see your point with the trebbly, small fast bullet through the ribs disintegrating and making a mess of the vitals and not exiting,perfect for what you were doing.

Wouldn't have been very reliable hitting heavy bone though! At least you were supplied good quality ammo for the 222.

It always amazed me as well why people would want to use 130 gr Projectiles too.

When culling the standard shot with the 222 was through the shoulder. This bullet was well able to punch through a stags near shoulder, crippling it, mashing the engine room and lodging in the far shoulder disabling that too, this happened up to a considerable range.

We only changed to neck, head shots when they paid 10cents a pound more. If too far away the target became the rib cage.

You could when close put a bullet into the chest through the little v at the bottom of the throat or straight up the date.
As long as the buyer could not find a bullet hole in the body you got the extra 10 cents a pound.

Originally Posted by Spudattack

So they were persisted with? Did anyone try and change the projectile they were supplied with? Would be interesting to know what the projectiles were?
Again it sounds like a poorly constructed bullet, something like a nosler partition that expands rapidly to a point and then holds together would have probably gone a long way to solving these issues as well as going to a 150gr bullet (u have no idea why anyone uses 130gr bullets in a 270 except for mono metals, 150s are just better!)

I see your point with the trebbly, small fast bullet through the ribs disintegrating and making a mess of the vitals and not exiting,perfect for what you were doing.

Wouldn't have been very reliable hitting heavy bone though! At least you were supplied good quality ammo for the 222.😊

Damn right, I shoot 150gn SSTs in my .270, a mild load, so easy on the shoulder and no blow ups. Drops them like a sack from 25m with Sika, to 325m on Reds.