Author Topic: Federal Premium Ammo with Trophy Bonded Bea (Read 733 times)

Mac11700 · « **on:** March 18, 2006, 12:34:46 PM »

Anyone like these bullets..I found some close outs of all the Federal Premium 280 Rem loads locally.I picked up a box of the 140 grainers to see how they will do out of my 280 Handi Rifle..not a bad price on these..$15.95 a box for the 140's..

Mac

Daks · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2006, 01:01:07 PM »

I love 'em. For my 35W, they run $30 a box. If I could find them at $15, I'd buy out the stock.

Coyote Hunter · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2006, 04:45:44 PM »

My buddy uses Trophy Bonded. They work well and are accurate in his rifle. I use a North Fork which is very similar. IMHO they are among the very best bullets available.

Cappy · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2006, 06:10:58 PM »

I've used them in my .308 and have found them to be a good bullet.

Stoneybroke · « **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2006, 10:01:35 AM »

If I could find the 225 grain TBBCs at $15 for my Whelen, I'd buy a lifetime supply. That load shoots less than 1" in my Whelen

deerman12 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2006, 06:09:56 AM »

I just used them this weekend. Midway.com had them a while back for $11-13 a box. I bought a few boxes for my 7mm08, 139 grain, supposed to be around 2900-2950 FPS the box says. They shot less than inch in my model 7. I dropped a 240 pound boar in his tracks with a single head shot. Exited and left a nice hole. I will use them again.[/img]

Don Fischer · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2006, 07:30:47 AM »

I haven't used factory ammo for years but would bet that if they shoot well out of your rifle, they'll get the job done. Most game we hunt can be killed with any bullet of decent weight for caliber. Including match and soild bullet's. The only problem with any bullet might be being to distructive if it hit's a little off. I doubt the 140 gr trophy bonded will be overly distructive. My last elk was shot with a 140 gr Hornady interloc out of a 6.5-06. Fell where it was hit and the bullet shot thru. The Trophy bonded is probally a stronger bullet even in 284 cal.

longhunter44 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 28, 2006, 04:53:01 PM »

Seven rounds fired on game with my 30-06 using Federal Premium High Energy TBBC 180 grain @ advertised 2880 ft/sec.

1) 2003 Whitetail doe #1, 25 yards, lungs, big exit wound, fell over
2) 2003 Whitetail doe #2, 30 yards, quartering towards, hit between neck and shoulder, no exit, collapsed in tracks
3) 2004 4x4 Mule deer, 300 yards, broke both shoulders, no exit, collapsed in tracks
4) 2004 5x6 bull elk, 400 yards, lungs, 3/4 inch hole in near lung, 1 1/2 exit from near lung, similar entrance in far lung, bullet stopped in far lung, but broke ribs on far side, found elk 30 yards away. No blood trail.(I'll explain myself later. Normally, I'd never try a 400 yard shot.)
5 & 6) 2005 shot one doe at 50 yards through shoulders, dropped in tracks, no exit. Second one, hit an unseen branch at 40 yards (I guess), big entrance wound not where I aimed ( hit sideways or tumbling?), doe ran 30 yard and fell dead - massive internal unjury and quite messy, decent blood trail from small exit wound.
7) Loaned to buddy and guided him to first deer, 165 pound field dressed 2 1/2 year old eight point. I had to grunt agressively to get him to stop, he spotted and turned towards us as my buddy shot, aiming at the shoulder, but getting liver low. Buck ran 40 yards, stood, staggered and fell in several seconds. Very messy, no exit would and poor blood trail.

I like exit wounds with prominent bloodtrails, however, seven for seven even with two shots at the extremes of my ability and a bad hit or two, and all falling within a few yards, can't complain.

longhunter44 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2006, 05:41:52 PM »

OK,
on the two long shots in 2004. We were hunting a cattle ranch in Montana, licensed for a mulie buck and a bull (brow tine only) elk.

Both shots were a couple of days apart and after long stalks. Both were laying prone on rock outcroppings used to hide our final approach. I had shot a lot at my now defunct rifle range at 100, 200 and 300yards and knew that I was zeroed at 200, and eight inches low at 300. With my scope at 10X, a buck at 300 yards just filled the 16 inches between my duplex reticles and the "post" formed by the lower was right on. I used these facts on the mule deer.

With the elk, the math got harder. I watched the bull, the spikes around him, and the cows. Finally, he was in the clear, about 1 1/2 times the space between the heavy duplex. Figuring an elk is about twice (32 inches vs 16 inches) the height of a deer, I estimated 400 yards, remembered an additonal 14 inch drop from the tables for the Trophy Bonded Bearclaw, set the "post"on the top of the back (center crosshairs above the back) and squeezed off.

Again, I was prone, hat on backwards, toes dug into the dirt, rifle laying directly on the boulder on only the sling to keep it from scratching. Not a shot I will take very often, but one I'll remember til I die.