40-70- 1 deer -0

[rdnck]

A friend of mine took three deer last season with his 40-65 using a flatnosed 415 grain bullet at 15 BHN. This is fairly hard. Being new to BPCR he was unaware that he was bucking convention, and frankly, he didn't care. The bullet was the Lyman 410655 which has a meplat of about .250. His velocity was a chronograph 1285 fps, and he absolutely smoked the 3 deer, shooting through a six point buck from chest to out a ham on a lengthwise complete pass through from 105 yards. He also took a doe broadside through both shoulders with a good exit wound from 80 yards, and another doe from 40 yards quartering away. The last one was hit behind the last rib with the bullet exiting infront of the off shoulder. All three of the deer went more or less straight down.

He has had Steve Brooks make a 390 grain paper patched bullet with a good meplat, and has this bullet shooting really well out of his Shiloh at 15-1. His game plan for this season is to park his 45-70 and his 45-110 and use his 40-65 for everything. We are talking about a buffalo, and if we can work out the processing logistics on this, it looks like there is a 40 caliber buffalo somewhere in the near future. I may shoot the 410655 just for comparison purposes, but my 385 roundnose has worked to perfection, so we'll see. Shoot straight, rdnck.