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Post by deerdude on May 5, 2008 3:13:07 GMT -5
just got my new omega on sat. sweet little machine . i picked up some shock waves ,they shot really well out of the m.l but i have heard some horror stories from guys that have lost deer with them. any one out there got a opinion or comment about them?
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on May 5, 2008 8:24:17 GMT -5
I shoot the 300 Grain Super Glide's. Awesome bullet and never lost anything. My son and brother use them as well. Hornady makes these.
If YOU place the shot properly there should be no worries about the performance.
TC also has them in a bonded bullet for thick skinned game like Elk. I was told not use them on deer but not sure if anyone had success with those. Maybe that's where "horror" stoires came from?
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Post by BIGHORN on May 6, 2008 13:49:15 GMT -5
Have used both the 250 gr. and 300 gr. Shockwaves with great success.
Very good accuracy and nice holes !!!!!
Have not lost one yet using these sabots.
Shawn
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Post by buckeater on May 9, 2008 8:32:07 GMT -5
i use to shoot them but i just switched over to hornady. a couple bucks cheaper per box and you get more in a box of them.
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Post by tony on May 9, 2008 15:38:58 GMT -5
Shockwaves are HornadySST's that were made for TC and given a different colored polymer tip . Both shoot very well in my Savage using the 250 gr.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on May 10, 2008 20:04:37 GMT -5
i use to shoot them but i just switched over to hornady. a couple bucks cheaper per box and you get more in a box of them. Hornady doesn't offer the Superglide Sabots tho. |
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Post by beehunter on May 11, 2008 10:06:51 GMT -5
I have shot 5 deer with 250gr and all 5 were dead on their feet, they flat out put the whammy on em. I have also grouped shots in a 6inch circle at 160+ yds out of my Omega, I am sold on them.
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Post by deerdude on May 11, 2008 15:22:12 GMT -5
whats the difference in the shockwaves and powerbelts other than the powerbelts dont have the sabot? i picked some up today to try out if the rain and wind ever lets up.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on May 11, 2008 18:48:43 GMT -5
whats the difference in the shockwaves and powerbelts other than the powerbelts dont have the sabot? i picked some up today to try out if the rain and wind ever lets up. To me they are two different types of bullets that can shoot totally differently. We tried to get PB's to shoot out of my son's Omega but the grouping results were poor. Every ML is different tho. |
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Post by buckeater on May 12, 2008 7:31:27 GMT -5
i use to shoot them but i just switched over to hornady. a couple bucks cheaper per box and you get more in a box of them. Hornady doesn't offer the Superglide Sabots tho. i wasnt talking about superglides anyway. and yes hornady has an easy loading bullet called the low drag. they are only around $13 dollars for 25 of them. |
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on May 12, 2008 18:54:16 GMT -5
Hornady doesn't offer the Superglide Sabots tho. i wasnt talking about superglides anyway. and yes hornady has an easy loading bullet called the low drag. they are only around $13 dollars for 25 of them. I was not aware of the "Low Drag" sabots. I didn't see those around last year but I will definently seek them out this summer and try them. I assume they're about the same as the yellow superglides, just a different color. Thanks for the heads up!  |
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Post by buckeater on May 13, 2008 6:58:52 GMT -5
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Post by deerdude on May 13, 2008 18:36:25 GMT -5
i picked up some nosler partisians hg and power belts and shot them, the power belts were all over which suprised me because the shockwaves shot pretty well out of it.the noslers looked real good only they are a bear to get down the barrel,but i can live with that.but there not for plinking with the price tag on them.
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Post by jgrimm on May 17, 2008 22:28:47 GMT -5
I shoot shockwaves in my TC omega, I have good luck with them. no complaints here!!
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Post by woodmaster on May 18, 2008 10:27:15 GMT -5
l but i have heard some horror stories from guys that have lost deer with them. I usually take those "horror stories" with a grain of salt. I'm guessing those guys didn't hit the deer where they thought they did. I use them in my muzzleloader and liked them so much that I switched from Lightfield slugs to Hornady SST slugs in my shotgun. |
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Post by schoolmaster on Jun 12, 2008 8:37:33 GMT -5
My son and I have killed 8 deer with the 250 shockwave bullet shot out of savage muzzleloaders at about 2300 f/s. The closest one was 15 yards and the farthest was 120. All one shot kills. Five of the deer were spine/neck shots and dropped in their tracks. Three were either heart shots or lung shots and the deer ran 20 -30 yards and fell. All of these bullets separated from their jackets and pieces of jacket, lead core, and plastic tips were found under the hide on the far side. One of the deer was small and shot right through the top of the shoulders and blew a hole on each side. most shots that hit bone did not exit. The biggest piece of bullet found was part of a piece of jacket material and weighed about 30-40 grains. At lower velocities this bullet will exit. I also shot a 200 pound boar with this load and the bullet did not exit on a broadside lung shot. The hog left very little blood sign and was recovered from a pond in 8 feet of water. When he ran over the hill at the shot I saw the water fly up and he sank right there. The bullet went in behind the shoulder and blew up destroying the lungs. The range was 110 yards.
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