by wildcatter » Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:57 am
Hoot, again, is exactly correct, this "IS" the nature of the beast. The good-news is, there is a trade off, low pressure sooting vs wonderfully exquisite accuracy. Accuracy is a good thing, right? I made a two hundred yard neck shot, on a deer, last fall, (the exposed target was a sub, three inch circle) and when I did it I had perfect confidence, with absolutely no hesitance or reservations at all, that the shot was in the bag, even well before I pulled the trigger.
The higher end loads of lil-gun will greatly reduce the sooting and give some more down range punch, but hey, how much is enough kill-ability, this ain't no wimpy 300 or 338 magnum, .."if it's brown it's down", has never had more meaning to the hunter than the 450b provides. To quote our own, now famous Bushmeister.."I no-longer need tracking skills"!!..
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