I wouldn't shoot a powerbelt if they gave me a lifetime supply of them, and a free Kansas hunt
Agreed.
I got a free pack of them with my first inline and the first several bucks I shot with them I never got any blood trail at all. I am talking about 30-40 yards shots in the vitals with slight shoulder in it. Never again would I shoot them and I threw away the rest of the powerbelts!
Hornadys or T/C bullets all the way!
Same here!
The straw that broke the camel's back was my third lost animal of the weekend, and 4th of the season. It was a 5 point that I can called in down in a creek bottom. He came crashing into where i was like an elephant. Had his ears pinned back, lip curled and grunting every breath. Had snot and slobber hangin off his face. I stopped him at 20 yards and fired. When the smoke cleared, no deer laying there like I expected. Climbed down, no blood. I knew it was not the gun or me. I found him in January when I was squirrel hunting. I measured it on my GPS and it was over 800 yards from where I shot him. The hog I lost was a 10 yard shot. Never found him till 3 days later I saw buzzards across the next road
I refuse to shoot a bullet that won't exit. No exit/no blood trail. Since I switched to shockwaves I have not had an animal run more than a few feet. Including my registry buck that is looking at me as I type. Even killed 2 hogs in one shot
One thing I can say, after 35 years of hunting I finally have full confidence in all my guns and bullets. From the broadheads I shoot, to the m/l bullets I shoot, shotgun loads and rifle bullets
I actually found the first of the 2 I shot that season. Luckily the 4pt ran back down my walk-in trail and piled up not 80 yards from my truck. I was propped up and knew I couldn't have missed him and looked close to an hour for blood and made a grid pattern looking around (couldn't tell which way he ran off) and finally left down my trail to the truck and there he laid.
The bullet didn't make it passed his opposite shoulder on a clean vital entry. I should've ditched the bullets then. I think I would've had better penetration with my bow.
i will be using hornadys or tcs from now on. Now that i have a traditional cap lock ml, i have plenty of hornady round balls, and a few tc maxi hunters to shoot. gonna try those in my cva at some point. though i am not sure the twist rate in the wolf will work well with patched round balls.
Love my Wolf!
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Why don't you like powerbelt? I have noticed that the bullet always lodges just under the skin on the opposite side. What bullet will me a pass through?
The ballistic tip power belts pass thru without expanding. if you remove the plastic tip AND make it an hollow point it will leave an exit holes the size of golf balls-- well a hole big enough to drop a golf ball in.
