If you have to have a 6.5 consider the 6.5 rem mag Easy to neck down 7mm rem mag brass The 143/147 and heavier approach rem mag energy levels, and not the dramas of the rum cases necked down.
Liked On: 29-05-2022, 12:42 PM
Nope. Its not a caliber for marginal shots on deer so the conditions have to be perfect. Ie a solid rest, within 80m, a clear shot at the head/top of the neck side on etc. Any doubt and the shot...
Liked On: 26-05-2022, 10:39 PM
197700 Doing free pest control on a farm just south of Wellsford. Guy has only owned the place for a couple of years and leans towards the 'green' side. Told me to shoot anything not...
Liked On: 25-05-2022, 08:04 PM
Man this thread makes me want to AI my 280 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Liked On: 24-05-2022, 09:44 PM
I've found the 140 ELD-M to be excellent jap medicine in open country. Load them just over 2,800 fps with RE-16 for .5 MOA. Get 2,900 fps with the same bullet with RE-26 but want to keep barrel wear...
Liked On: 23-05-2022, 12:28 PM
So true. How many times do you read that someone is setting up a bush rifle and sets zero 1 inch high at 100 yards? I wonder if they've ever been in to the bush!
Liked On: 22-05-2022, 10:21 AM
So since I didn’t actually get any pressure when working up a load the other day curiosity got the better of me today and I decided to keep working up and see if I could find another node. Got to...
Liked On: 19-05-2022, 08:50 PM
Took the mrs for an overnight trip.. She said to me, "I just want to see a Sika stag, I replied its not that easy Bush stalking, her response was well if you see one then shoot it and il get to see...
Liked On: 18-05-2022, 11:41 PM
Reloder 23 is the magic powder for 270 and 140+ projectiles
Liked On: 18-05-2022, 09:04 PM
Yeah 178 ELD-X, thats the one. Blardy small phone keyboard vs blunt dairy farmer hands :omg:
Liked On: 16-05-2022, 08:22 PM
Provided you get a good accuracy then anything from 150 to 168 will do the job. I found that after 10 years of shooting the 150 in the 308 and then stumbled onto the Hornady 168 eldm packet ammo the...
Liked On: 15-05-2022, 09:37 PM
Cringing to read some of this. This is why I make sure my life insurance has me covered for "hunting accidents". I hope that if I do get shot, its in the head and not the guts.
Liked On: 09-05-2022, 06:19 PM
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220508/0f7413f2d96f13b66289f817b6c3bb03.jpg Have taken a few fallow this rut. Here is one from the Liverpool plains ranges. Sent from my iPhone using...
Liked On: 09-05-2022, 06:16 PM
Well done guys and girls and everyone is safe and sound. This is the only photo of one of two scrubby stags for me. 196482
Liked On: 09-05-2022, 06:16 PM
Why you went for the black not blue bolt shroud is beyond me! 257weatherby
Liked On: 06-05-2022, 02:23 PM