bullet and load advice

[hunterwhop]

Waiting on the New mountaineer .50 I ordered and want to know what kind of bullets and loads anyone is using that give great results. My MK85 will shoot whatever I put in it but have heard the new guns are more finicky. The old MK and I have been to places few have dreamed and never failed me till this year or could be my old eyes?

[RGJZ06]

I use .50/290 grain Polimer tip boat tails in my mountaineer. I use Black Horn 209 with a120 grain charge. I ordered the bullet/sabots from Knight. They perform very well in the Mountaineer and a MHDE that I also own.

RGJZ06

[hunterwhop]

thanks will try those as i need to be accurate out to 167 yards and also at 30

[RGJZ06]

If you believe the box they came in, it says about a half inch high, (0.61") at 50 yards if zero'ed at 100 yards. It says 3.81 down at 150, -11.42 at 200 yards. It says, that's with 150 grans of triple 7 pellets with a 209 shotshell primer. I've shot them out to 100 yeads and they are very repeatable. I'm shooting 120 grains of Black Horn 209. I haven't shot it past 100 yards. Where I hunt, 100 yards would be a very long shot.

RGJZ06

[hunterwhop]

thanks again where I hunt is an old tobacco farm full of clover now and from one side to the other is 167 yards and it never fails whichever side I am on the deer come from the other but the old MK85 will get em till this year think the barrel is shot out or am I just making excuses for old eyes