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When printing tables use Portrait Orientation with .12" both sides and bottom margins. In all tables: Lead is always in feet, wind drift and trajectory is always in inches. Figure leads from heart/lungs on deer. Coyotes and deer can run up to 40 mph. Lead figures are from the chest! Focus your eyes on the chest target area to establish all leads! Use the length of the animal to determine the length of your lead. Large bucks are around 6.5' feet long, large doe is around 6' feet long. A 3' foot lead would be ½ of a large doe's length, etc.
Lead from heart/lung area, all figures at 90° degree angles. Cut leads in half at 45° angles.
This should be a good antelope and deer bullet, providing shoot through penetration from most angles. These X bullets are supposed to begin expanding at around 1600 fps, with a 2 times original bullet diameter expansion. I'm going to use the 250 yd zero for everything, as it's too easy for me to misjudge the range and shoot over fox and coyotes.
I worked up these charts to give you a general idea of what it takes to gauge the speed, angle, and approximate lead required to make a killing shot on a coyote or on that once in a lifetime trophy buck that is headed for thick cover if you don't drop him before he gets there!
There ought to be variable speed moving targets on every rifle and handgun shooting range. The target system should be movable to various ranges and run at various angles. Practice is essential to improve those shooting skills and to further determine each individuals range limits on running game. Remember that nearly everything that is shot, with a shotgun's shot pattern, is running or flying and those shooting skills vary a great deal between individuals due to numerous factors, with practice being a major one.
Start at the shorter ranges until you become proficient and move up, limiting yourself to reasonable shooting ranges.
In this ultra high velocity 243/06 Wildcat (according to Michael Courtney) the Barnes X bullet's will retain close to 100% of their original weight and maintain an expanded diameter of two calibers. These 85 or 95 grain X bullets will penetrate a deer fully from any angle and dump energy evenly along the wound channel. Get all the copper fouling out of your barrel before you start using X bullets, or you will experience heavy copper fouling and accuracy problems! Clean often and don't get your barrel hot! The bullets are very hard and I was concerned for the rifling! I quit using them before testing them on deer.
If Whisky Chamberlain of Idaho can take 15 consecutive big bull elk with a straight .243 Winchester, I believe with those X bullets or the 100 grain Remington Corelokt Ultra Bullet (BLUB) in my 243/06 Wildcat ought to do the trick. Using 25/06 cases it's a breeze hand loading for it. I still need a good, long enough, variable scope to mount on it. I had this Wildcat built back in the mid 1960's, ordered it through the late Don Weide.
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