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Offline Star1pup

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What weight of PowerBelt?
« on: October 16, 2006, 11:35:35 AM »
Which weight of .50 PowerBelt do you recommend over 100 gr. of Pyrodex pellets?  I think I'll try the ones with the plastic tip, but I've been using the hollow points.
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Re: What weight of PowerBelt?
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2006, 01:36:27 PM »
I personally went with the 348gr. Just something about shooting that much lead seems awesome  ;D

Really, though, in my huntsman, the 348 aerotip groups really well and I'm very confident in it.  I really do prefer a larger grain bullet when deer hunting, especially given how close most of my shots are (75 yds and in)  I know you can examine all sorts of data on trajectory, energy, etc but to me, common sense says bigger is better-------if it's accurate, which in my ML it is
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Re: What weight of PowerBelt?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2006, 10:24:12 AM »
I just started using the 245gr aerotip and two 777 pellets. I only had a 50 yard range available but my last 2 shots went almost thru the same hole.
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Re: What weight of PowerBelt?
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2006, 12:55:42 AM »
Since 2001 I have killed 6 bucks with 295 hollowpoints over 90gr 777 out of my Huntsman. All deer were dead on the spot. I am not much of a shooter. Powerbelts came with a CVA gun that I got as a gift, so I used them in my Huntsman as well. I now have tried other sabots, because they were cheaper than Powerbelts, but I did not like snapping rods trying to get them down. I don't know from pass throughs, expansion, fragmentation. I just know from dead deer... I don't sight in past 50 yards. For the few shots I may take at game past 50, I ad lib.... At 50 I get great accuracy.
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