Most deer legal calibres will have no problem with homeloads reaching legal requirements. It is generally the lower end which struggle such a those attempting to stoke-up 6mm or .22 Hornet to try and make them deer legal where the problems arise! Also at the other end of the scale where people try and get some kind of massive black powder propelled mortar round to go fast enough!Both my deer rifles 30-06 & 6.5 cm with 24" + barrrels have no problem being deer legal as not running those ubber short barrels.
3281 fps/ 1000mps and 4500joules limit, some are 7000joules limit but you need to do hme zeroing before use.Most deer legal calibres will have no problem with homeloads reaching legal requirements. It is generally the lower end which struggle such a those attempting to stoke-up 6mm or .22 Hornet to try and make them deer legal where the problems arise! Also at the other end of the scale where people try and get some kind of massive black powder propelled mortar round to go fast enough!
An area often overlooked though is other rules that may be broken! For instance, a military gallery range has a muzzle velocity restriction of 3275 fps. Trying to get a small bullet to go fast enough to become deer legal may actually put you over the limit for your local zeroing facility!
MS
RCO manual edition 5 (April 2011) states 3275ft/sec (1000m/s): muzzle energy - 5160 ft lbs (7000 Joules)3281 fps/ 1000mps and 4500joules limit, some are 7000joules limit but you need to do hme zeroing before use.
Pete
Should we be doing this on an open forum?
That sums it up very well.I think the point is that it matters not what was used historically, or that there were no problems. The law is unequivocal. You either comply or don't...no grey area.
ATB
Nice to see an 'ethicist' come up with this, if you do no wrong you have nothing to hide would be my 'answer'!
That sums it up very well.
Picking up on Monkey Spanker's comments, I recall one of our members, whose name escapes me, who was trying to work up a .22K Hornet load to be deer legal for the smaller species (50grain bullet/1000ft lbs muzzle energy) which I thought unlikely to be achievable. It would be interesting to hear how he got on.
Should we be doing this on an open forum?
Quite a stretch even for the K hornet, gotta break 3000fps!
Exactly. 3000 fps is achievable with lighter bullets but I would have thought out of reach with a 50 grain bullet. However it would be interesting to know what was achieved and what was learned along the way.