LBT Bullets...

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Gander D. Bander

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I am thinking of getting a box of 250 or 265's to try out of my Ruger SBHH in 41 Mag. I will be carrying it around this year trying to shoot a mule deer. I noticed the description on the Cabela's catalog." Solids penetrate 200% deeper then any other bullet design we've found creating a far superior wound channel then any expanding bullet." I am curius if what they are trying to say is that these bullets don't expand thus making for the deeper pentration? If so how does it make a superior wound channel? I can see where this might make a diffrence on a large animal like an elk but will this bullet basically drill a 5/16" hole thru a deer. Anyone ever tried these?? Thanks
 
Never tried these, but the idea seems to be that a blunt-nose bullet gives straight and long penetration, yielding a much longer wound channel than an expanding bullet. The latter, as it gets bigger, tends to slow down faster, and may even go to pieces on a large bone. A good many large-caliber handgun hunters like solids when hunting bigger game, and they work pretty well in things like .45-70 rifles too.

For a mule deer you probably don't need the heaviest weight, but you will still want to place the bullet in the right spot regardless of what you're shooting.
 
I agree you probably wouldn't need them for mule deer but they also wouldn't be a bad choice. I recently got some beartoothbullets.com hardcast gas checked bullets to try in my 44 mag & 357(250's&185 grn). I am loading them over a healthy dose of win 296(H-110). I did shoot a deer with my 357 a while back & even though he didn't go far penetration from the factory soft points was less than ideal. I also have an upcoming bear hunt & plan to carry my super redhawk as backup.
 
I used the 210 gr. XTP in my Redhawk to kill a 200 lb russian boar. I hit him behind the left ear and exited the right eye. We took a metal detector to the skull looking for bullet fragments and only found little copper granules everywhere. Needless to say he was DRT, but I was impressed by the way it held enough mass to go all the way through from back to front. I have heard many say they worked well at different velocities and worked well for deer. I just haven't had one stand there long enough to find out /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif.
 
I like the LBT type bullets. They are reliable and consistent in their performance. There isn't any guessing, you know that you will get straight line penetration, good wound channel, and a bone isn't going to stop the progress. Do you need them for deer size critters? I guess that sorta depends upon your viewpoint. Hollowpoints and typical softpoints offer expansion and wider wound channel with limited penetration and bone busting capabilities, or the LBT has the attributes I listed above. With a large caliber handgun, especially if you have the accuracy and willingness to shoot at farther ranges where expansion from a hollowpoint will be inhibited, the LBT is always a safe bet.
 
When shooting lead bullets you will get a good wound channel with a LBT bullet.

The larger the meplat the better terminal performance you can expect.

It's like taking your hand and holding it sideways in the water and swooshing it through, quick and little resistance and small wave. Now do the same with palm open, bigger wave and more water displaced. Same idea with LBT. Big flat nose pushes a big wave through the critter causing more damage.

I'd aim for bone with that bullet. Your game will go down NOW and the terminal performace should be almost immediate.

here is a story take it as you will.

I shot my Muzzleloader 50 cal with 80 gr ffg at 8 1 gallon water jugs placed back to back at 20 yards. I was using a RB and patch, the RB was cast of WW. Slightly hard.

The first two gallon jugs were completely blown off the table and really destroyed. I found the RB in the 8th jug. In tact, perfect, I mic'ed it and it's still round all the way around as I cast it. I could load and shoot it again.

Point is, it didn't deform and did some tremendous damage on the front end and kept penetrating. I'd expect your LBT to do the same.
 
LBT's will penetrate significantly better than a round ball! Blammer's got it right about the wound channel and wide meplats.
 
I don't have any experiance with them out of a 41 but I use them in my 44mag, 445super and 357max for whitetails also out of my 45/70 I cast my own out of WW and Lino and then are water dropped they end up about 22 Brinel on a LBT hardness tester and will drill holes through about anything. I prefer them to hollow points I don't have to worry about expansion the 44cal 300gr WFN's make a pretty big wound chanel these are a couple that fell to a LBT


80 yrds 44mag TC 14" Contender 300gr LBT WFN through both shoulders DRT.
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My 14" TC really likes the LBT 180 FN also Hornady 180 SSP. I use to shoot the 200gr sp before I ran out of 680 but AA 1680 or H110 work good to.

Gander sorry not trying to hyjack your thread.
 
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Contact a man named Veral Smith ,He is LBT's owner . He has written a book called "Jacketed performance with Cast Bullets" is is a great book about cast bullets and how they work . Veral knows cast bullets !
If you want to buy bullets instead of getting a mould and casting your own , check out Montana Bullet Works . They have several LBT bullets to choose from . I think there are 9 different 41 caliber LBT bullets to choose from .They are GREAT people to deal with and make some super quality bullets . GREAT prices too !

http://www.montanabulletworks.com/wst_page6.html
 


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