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used the crushed rib sabot and 300gr. .44 cal xtp out of my knight wolverine. 120 gr. of pryo rs. got 2 inch groups. any body get better with this bullet? anybody got a better load?
trigger8mm said:used the crushed rib sabot and 300gr. .44 cal xtp out of my knight wolverine. 120 gr. of pryo rs. got 2 inch groups. any body get better with this bullet? anybody got a better load?
cayuga said:Try backing it off to 80 grains and work it up from there. Your shooting a max load out of that rifle. Many rifles do not shoot well with max powder charges. There normally is a happy medium.
There is a lot of hype out here that we have to shoot large powder charges in order to harvest an animal. That is just bull hockey.
wildhobbybobby said:The .44/300 XTP with the green Crush Rib is my favorite combo for my scoped inlines. It is accurate and very effective on game. I have killed quite a few deer with it and have never recovered a bullet. I would not hesitate to hunt elk with that bullet.
I have purchased it recently in bulk for less than $13.00 per box of 50. That is only 26 cents per bullet. I now have a lifetime supply.
In the past I have used the expensive "designer" bullets that come in blister packs of 20 bullets or less and cost over a buck apiece. They didn't kill deer any better than the XTP's, were not any more accurate, and the expense was such that I only bought a few. When I ran out, I could never find more of the same kind easily available when I needed them.
So I wound up trying something in a different blister pack, and eventually had a box with 4 or 5 of each kind left over and just used them for plinking because there were not enough of one kind to standardize on.
When I started using the 44/300 XTP, my search was over. They are inexpensive but accurate and deadly. They are readily available in bulk. They work just fine up to 200 yards if you know what you are doing.
The .44/300 XTP IS a magnum bullet. There is no such thing as a regular XTP in .44 caliber. The .44/300 has better sectional density and ballistic coefficient than the .452 version and will give a slightly flatter trajectory and should penetrate slightly better than the .452.
I use 100 grs. of BH209, or 777, or Pyrodex, or whatever. Groups from my Disk Extremes run from 3/4" to 1 1/2", depending on the loose nut that is pulling the trigger.
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