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300 whisper
Just registered 2 minutes ago. Want to hear about personal experiences with 125gr Balistic tips on big midwestern whitetails. I was just given a Bullberry 15" stainless bull barrel for my contender. Shot it for the third time yesterday. First time with fire formed brass and already shoots into an inch or less @ over 2200 fps with 18.5 gr of H-110. With Leupold scope set @ 8X and zeroed a little over 2" high @ 100 yds I can hit 12" steel gongs with every shot @ 256 steps, or approximately 240 yds, by holding just slightly above (approx. 2") the top of the gong. That speaks well of the cartridge and the barrel because I can't shoot pistols well...I'm a rifle guy. What I want to know about is field performance and range limitations of the round. One of my reloading books speaks of that bullet used in a 30/30 contender @ about 200 fps slower (don't know why it would be slower) and it was claimed it killed deer like lightning, but should not be used past 150 yds. The cartridge is a legal round for the entire firearm deer season now in Illinois, and we are sometimes presented with corn field and dry river bed shots in excess of 150 yds, and the development of sabot slugs and the H&R slug gun has taken SOME of my attention away from bow hunting since I can now know EXACTLY where my slug will hit out to 200 yds and what it will do when it gets there. So I'm wondering if the whisper could also fall into that category. The accuracy is obviously there, but what does the bullet do at those velocities? Don't baffle me with a bunch of energy table info please. I've looked it up, but I want to hear real life experiences. My arrow has virtually no energy but kills deer better than any pre-sabot slug ever did for me so I'm a little skeptical about immersing myself in all that energy data. I haven't looked all the way through the site yet so forgive me if the info is already here somewhere. Looking forward to hearing from you all, X
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