{"id":15375,"date":"2018-12-19T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=15375"},"modified":"2018-12-19T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:09:06","slug":"bad-ass-bone-crushing-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/bad-ass-bone-crushing-ammunition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Ass, Bone Crushing, Ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"

My grandfather would\u2019ve liked Tim Sundles, partly because of his strong back, but mostly because of his character. Sundles is serious about his word; if he tells you there\u2019s a dinosaur in the street; you best get your gun\u2014your really big\u00a0<\/em>gun. Tim is politically incorrect and a little rough on the edges. He\u2019s also a gentleman who expects the same from those he meets. I\u2019d advise against knocking his hat off, insulting his lady, or spilling your martini on his flannel shirt.<\/p>\n

Tim grew up on the wild side of Idaho and Oregon. His stepfather taught him to handload at age 12. That same year Tim shot his first deer, and had a run in with a game warden, who cited him for not properly cutting his tag. Unfrazzled by his encounter with a moron \u2014 you gotta be a moron to cite a 12-year-old boy for not properly cutting the tag for his first deer\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 Tim became a committed hunter and conservationist. And, because of their illegal dumping of wolves, Tim became embroiled in a long running feud with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. So committed was Tim to the cause, he did jail time for a misdemeanor offense.<\/p>\n

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Sundles started Buffalo Bore in 1997 and his first commercial loads were for the 475 and 500 Linebaughs\u2014serious big bore cartridges by any measure. I first became acquainted with him in 2002 when I was looking to try his Heavy 35 Remington loads. \u201cHeavy\u201d is a good name for this stuff; out of a Marlin lever gun they\u2019ll push a 220-grain Speer bullet to just the other side of 2200 fps.<\/p>\n

Since then, Sundles has vastly expanded his line, and Buffalo Bore has evolved from a small, boutique-like ammo company, to full-fledged ammunition manufacturing powerhouse. I turn to Buffalo Bore anytime I needed to really knock the snot out of something. I used his 430-grain 45-70 Magnum load to stop a charging African buffalo at about 20 feet. Last year four other hunters and I took buffalo with the same load. I\u2019ve also taken several whitetail deer with his 327 Federal Magnum Hard Cast load.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s easy to trust ammunition from a man who uses what he makes in the wilderness backcountry, where you have to be serious about every shot taken. Sundles saddles up and rides into parts unknown after griz, elk, sheep, and other critters. He uses the same ammo he offers for sale, and knows you can trust it because he\u2019s seen it work. If there\u2019s such thing as a modern-day mountain man, it just might be Tim Sundles. He just might be, \u201c\u2026blood kin to the grizzer that bit Jim Bridger\u2019s ass!\u201d1<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Not just a big man, Tim is a big believer in flat nosed, hard cast bullets too. Because he\u2019s used those projectiles on game, he\u2019s not a Jell-O junkie who bases his claims on hypothetical pontification. Of course, he has lots of customers making the case for him too. Like the Montana Highway Patrolman who was fishing the Clark Fork River when a big black bear decided an off-duty cop was more appetizing than a trout. When the bear rushed, the officer shot him in the shoulder with a Smith & Wesson Model 65. The 180-grain hard cast bullet broke the shoulder, shattered the hip on exit, and might still be going.<\/p>\n

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Not all Buffalo Bore success stories involve four-legged critters though. A Marine clearing buildings in Iraq ran his rifle dry, and during an ensuing hand-to-hand fight, the butt of the insurgent\u2019s rifle knocked him to the ground. On his back \u2014 trying to keep from being beat into a blood puddle \u2014 the Marine drew a compact 380 from his cargo pocket, and fired one shot. The 100-grain hard cast bullet struck his attacker just above the hip, angled through his torso, pierced his scapula, and stopped under the skin, incapacitating the camel jockey immediately.<\/p>\n

You may not need to crumple a Cape buffalo, or fight it out with a big bear, like the Alaskan guide who, using a 9mm, stopped a 900-pound grizzly \u2014 hell bent on turning him into a chew toy \u2014 with Buffalo Bore\u2019s Outdoorsman load. However, if you want ammunition that\u2019s as serious and badass as the man who builds it, now you know where to get it. Just don\u2019t call Tim Sundles or me\u00a0<\/em>if the recoil is a bit too much for your delicate little hands. Man up! This is serious stuff!<\/p>\n

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Tim Sundles might be, \u201c\u2026blood kin to the grizzer that bit Jim Bridger\u2019s ass!\u201d Don’t call him or me\u00a0if the recoil is a bit too much for your delicate little hands. Man up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2509,2579,2821,2522,2820],"tags":[446,2836,158,2160],"class_list":["post-15375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense","category-editorial","category-empty-cases-exclusive","category-hunt","category-latest","tag-45-70","tag-327-magnum","tag-buffalo-bore","tag-tim-sundles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/T3.png?fit=1000%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3ZZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16143,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/coopers-load\/","url_meta":{"origin":15375,"position":0},"title":"Cooper’s Load","author":"gunwriter","date":"June 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"In his book, To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth, Cooper stated, \u201cAll scouts up to now have been in caliber .308, and the chronograph insists that the proper loading can start a 150-grain bullet from a 19 inch barrel at a couple clicks over 2700 f\/s. 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