Several years ago I took a Bison with a 45-70. I was shooting a 405 grain pill at about 1300 FPS. The shot was about 60 (give or take) yards.
Any way the meat was awesome and it was pretty fun and I got a cool blanket and a skull mount.
For the past few years I have been shooting my Marlin 1895 SBL with a Suppressor on it.
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I have been working up a suppressed 550 grain load. I was a little worried about stability but it has been fine and pretty accurate.
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It is the load on the far right. As you can see I shortened the brass.
As many of you may know to make a round quiet with a suppressor it needs to be sub sonic. I have these 550 grain bullets going about 1075 FP. Do you think this is enough for a Buffalo. Energy wise its about the same as the old 45-70-500 load. That load killed a fair amount of buffalo.
I called the guy in charge of the hunt and he think its fine but admits he is not a gun guy. So I thought I would ask some "Gun guys and gals" You think this would work on Bison?
p.s. no lever action could be happy with out a matching revolver in the same caliber.
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of course it would be loaded with the same load. It does about 875 FPS from the revolver.
Any way the meat was awesome and it was pretty fun and I got a cool blanket and a skull mount.
For the past few years I have been shooting my Marlin 1895 SBL with a Suppressor on it.
I have been working up a suppressed 550 grain load. I was a little worried about stability but it has been fine and pretty accurate.
It is the load on the far right. As you can see I shortened the brass.
As many of you may know to make a round quiet with a suppressor it needs to be sub sonic. I have these 550 grain bullets going about 1075 FP. Do you think this is enough for a Buffalo. Energy wise its about the same as the old 45-70-500 load. That load killed a fair amount of buffalo.
I called the guy in charge of the hunt and he think its fine but admits he is not a gun guy. So I thought I would ask some "Gun guys and gals" You think this would work on Bison?
p.s. no lever action could be happy with out a matching revolver in the same caliber.
of course it would be loaded with the same load. It does about 875 FPS from the revolver.