Mauser 8 mm ammo - US made
- Thread starter Gerst
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no feedback? Bear season opens here May 1st and I want to try to kill a boar with my RC K98. Do you have any ideas where to start? I've never even shot this rifle. Thanks.
No experience with that brand, but I have a lot of experience with Pro-Hunter (Sierra) bullets. They've given me solid results in 30-06 and 6.8 SPC II on Blacktail Deer bucks.
If you've never even shot that one, I'd think about using a rifle you know you're accurate with instead.
Agree and I hope I didn't sound reckless, but I know where two boars are denned, like right now as I type this, and I think if I ski in there for the opener and limit myself to 60 yards I can kill one. When I killed my elk the one boar ate the gut pile and I followed him to where he denned. I went in there wolf hunting and the steam hole was active from his den down under the snow and rock.
The K98 RC has grown in mystique since I picked it up spontaneously from a neighbor. Love this thing and I hijacked this thread trying to find info about ammo. Thanks.
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heavy_mech
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I think this would be a good choice. I've fired this and PPU in both 196gr and 198gr. You should be fine, but please take a few practice shots before the kill.
Muncher 1953
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be careful under 60 yards, I’ve seen black bear cover that distance faster than a person can cycle a K98 bolt. & it isn’t just their hides that are tough, they’re all muscle. when you hold a bare black bear skull in your hands, it’s amazing how small the brain case is, & then you realize there’s 15-20 lbs of jaw muscle on their head! Bone crushing power.
yeah if this goes pear-shaped during sight in I'll grab my .30-06
thanks for the input
Muncher 1953
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yup, mostly they’ll run away from people, but sometimes not. I recently had a scrawny runt yearling get my bird feeder (hey-its what they do in spring) but with me banging a steel trash can lid & yelling insults, it would only retreat 30 yards & stop. Not bear season here now, get .410, shoot towards bear but not AT it, moves 10 yards, stops. 3 more shells before it got the message. From previous visit’s tracks it had been on the deck, 10 feet from the wall of windows. Typically when I yell “GIT!”, critters skidaddle, but this one required extra persuasion.