My name is Aaron Villery. I am the Sideburn Hunter. I started hunting in 2008 and haven’t looked back. Hunting and it’s associated activities have become my singular hobby. I enjoy spending quality time out of doors chasing the animals that I love. The bonus is, sometimes things come together and I can provide the highest quality meat available to my beautiful wife, daughter, and son.
I started this website to share my knowledge of western big game hunting with the masses. As a first-generation hunter, I know what it is like to face the vertical learning curve of hunting. Without great mentors, I would not have the confidence to hunt like I do freely. Since I know how hard it can be, I strive to provide valuable information that you can take into the forest and procure your own meat confidently.
Out of interest in your tests to determine temperature and total time to exhaustion how did you standardise the burner setting? I’d have thought even a small variation in setting would have a big influence on the overall burn time?
I went hunting in the Czech Republic in the 90s with a Ruger No. 1 with Mannlicher stock and 20" barrel and caliber 7x57mm. I shot a roe buck there at 180 m. 7x57 is a good hunting cartridge. I also had a pre-war Mauser in 7x57 (1937) and an FN Mauser in 9.3x62 caliber. I am a German from Franconia and now live in Thailand.
You are right on. On small cal. copper is a must as you have to have an exit hole in the South. Berns, brush honeysuckle etc. Need a blood trail. Shot deer with 243 lead and no exit hole sometimes. Copper always. griz
I just watched another burn time test using 100g canaster, this was done out in the open with out actually boiling water, the canaster lasted 30 minutes, i would think environments has a major effect on these burn times.
I just bought some Coleman….$5.99 + tax for 220g or $10.99 for the large 440g canisters at Walmart. Calling them “performance” is misleading at best and your tests prove it…pathetic! It’s 70% Butane and 30% propane but it works for non extreme cold and every Walmart in the USA has it. The only thing i like is that’s it’s made in France. If it was 70% isobutane they could proudly call it Performance. The GSI would be my choice based on specs for cold and/or high altitude use…..70% isobutane 20% propane and 5% butane. I live a at 5000 feet where pure butane performance is already starting to suffer. With all due respect the margins of aren’t “thin” when it comes to serous cold and or high altitude with canisters…the margins become huge!
My old .270 Weatherby has a slow twist rate and cannot stabilize long copper bullets. A jacketed round nose is extremely accurate but with monolithic copper I get key-holes and a huge pattern.
(noting that a new hunter is not necessarily a new shooter) maybe i'd recommend a 300 win mag or 300 wsm to a new hunter depending on shooting experience, but I certainly not a new shooter.
Damn, I used to carry lead pellets in my mouth while shooting my pellet rifle for years. Did the same thing with split shot while fishing. Don’t know how many I have swallowed over the years.
As if you have a list of "beginner" cartridges and leave out the 7mm08 or .243, or even the 3030...but yet you include a not one but two 300 win mag chamberings ? What kind of wacky list is this ??
I own a Winchester Model 70 Super Grade in .270 Winchester and the only ammo I use these days is the Hornady Superformance SST 130 grain. With a 24" barrel, that ammo produces 3200 fps and is one of the flattest-trajectory calibers you can get, that even outperforms the 6.5 Creedmore in bullet-drop. The two reasons why famed Outdoor Life writer Jack O'Connor liked the .270 Winchester so much was he understood you don't need to create a bigger wound and cause more damage, you just need more accuracy and Jack considered the 130g .270 Winchester to be the realistic threshold of how small a bullet can be yet still be effective enough to hunt anything, anywhere AND reason Number 2, the SIGNIFICANTLY reduced recoil compared to the shoulder-slamming, larger calibers. 👍
I’ve been using Coleman for all those reasons. However I’m having trouble in the cold. Near freezing it has trouble, I’m assuming I burn all the propane off. Curious how these perform at near or below freezing conditions?
Use both like both. Biggest downside to copper is it’s very speed dependent. Too slow at impact and it won’t expand much. But great for busting bones. I never worry about shot angle with copper. Lead bullets give me more range since they can expand at lower speeds. Good video 👍🏻
Don't agree with some of your recommendations. 1. .300 Winch is NOT for new shooters. 2. If a 30/06 will kill moose, then so will a .308. 3. You completely skipped the best new hunter caliber. The 7/08 Remington
Be sure to buy the Garmin insurance. It protects you from the cost of your rescue. Homemade Wonderlust was sure glad when she found out she had signed up for it 5 years earlier. As she used the SOS and the insurance covered most of her cost of rescue.
The .308 Winchester due to manageable recoil, very good barrel life, and the huge variety of readily available factory loads from 110 grains to 220 grains. A 400 yard elk rifle with the right load, such as Hornady's 308 Win 165 gr SST Superformance (2,077 fps / 1,574 ft lbs).
The video, as it states, is for beginners. Simply the best cartridge is the one that YOU can shoot best with. As long as it meets the standards for velocity and bullet diameter established by local regulations. Do you own research based on availability of ammunition, rifle style, and the shooting distances involved.
This is about the result I was expecting, the compression bottles are built to a pretty standardized spec (in many cases probably by the same company) and the variability of the propane itself makes any differences nominal and transient.
2 questions fm a longtime propane guy if U open a can it has 2 stay on stove or does it self seal? what is gthe stored shelf life of them? Sub'd todaylearned alot TY
Nice test. I wonder if some of the differences just comes down to the batch mix. They probably have a certain level of tolerance for each batch. It is possible that the mixture might change during the batch. As long as the end product, is within certain levels, it is sellable. The fact that a number of brands appear to come from the same factor but performed differently makes me think that this is at least part of the reason. It just doesn't seem like they are going to change the blend for different canisters. Maybe I am wrong. Interesting, none-the-less.
6.5 creed dont have enough shock factor, 270 can be found anywhere and will drop anything in deer variety, 308 has a good following but lacks flatness in the shot, 30-06 will do the job but significant kick without moderator, 300 Win Mag fine for everything except the recoil sensitive shooter, my choice for heavy deer is the 270
As a child 70+ years a go I would go fishing and would chew on lead shakers and did that for 10 then I started casting bullets for another 15 years and I still here more or less most of my friends are gone back to god
I don't get how some act like a bow and arrow is good idea on cape buffalo but then go say you can't take a cape buffalo with a 300 Winchester Magnum. The 300 Winchester works on all buffalo. A 7 mm magnum I guarantee can take down all buffalo to shot placement. The people who act as caliber experts now days I wont go to for advice. I know for a fact people use to use high grain 30 06 loads on cape buffalo. I read a magazine back in early 2000 s were it said hunters took them down in 3 or 4 shots at the most. I guess everyone thinks.
I prefer the combination of the two made by Hornady, Winchester, Remington, Federal, and Nosler since I don't live in the Golden state and never will. Thank you God that I was born in Texas. I almost forgot to mention Sierra, the bullet makers.
