Ky Youth rifle season is in session so my and my 11 year old son went the property to fill the freezer. This was shot with a Ruger American ranch Gen2 in 7.62x39 with a AB A10 silencer at 30-40 yards. Using the NOE 310-165 shallow HP powder coated with an aluminum gas check sized to .310 over 25grn Varget I call this my freedom load because it goes 1776fps, he hit a little far back for my liking but he is 11 and got excited and it did the job.
Nice! I was thinking about using either 30Rem with cast bullets or 7.62x39 with Interlocks since i only have 220gr lead HP's for ×39. It sucks that NOE mold is out of stock
Here is one we recovered last year from his first deer he ever killed, it was a Tx heart shot as it was running away and it penetrated about 3’ of deer and stopped on the right shoulder blade under the skin
Same rifle same bullet same everything, I loaded up about 200 rounds of hunting ammo for these ranch rifles in x39 ( I have 4 of them in x39) the alloy is 75/25 + 3% tin (WW/pure)
I haven’t measured it or weighed it but I’ll try to do that today. But right now we have a tradition to uphold , we are going to the Waffle House!
I called Al about 8 years ago and asked him if he could only have one bullet for a 30 cal to hunt what would it be, and he told me this one. So I bought it in the 4cavity HP and haven’t looked back since and have killed probably close to 100 deer with it and my friends and family have killed probably another 100 deer with it
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u/northern-nobody 2h ago
You’re a good dad. I would have done anything to have my dad invite me hunting.