For the fella that can handle the recoil and doesn't mind spending the extra money on ammo, the. For such a hunter, it's a better choice than the glorious. Plus, the. For many decades, the 7mm Rem.
A decade or so ago the gap closed, and according to many polls, the. Were I pressed to guess why, I'd say that the bigger cartridge just kills a little faster, probably a product of the greater frontal diameter. I've shot a lot of game with my favorite. Another advantage the.
The last time I went to Africa, my baggage was lost for a couple of days. No problem: I borrowed a pocketful of the outfitter's outstanding grain Norma Oryx handloads and went hunting. A big blue wildebeest fell to that bullet before my baggage arrived.
Speaking of bullets, there's little one can't accomplish with a good grain pill from a. One of my favorites is the grain Nosler AccuBond. With it I dropped an old aoudad ram with one shot at yards; it's become my go-to long-distance bullet. Note that for me a very long shot on game is yards. I don't promote extreme-range shooting at game. As for factory loads, I've had incredibly good results using Federal's grain Trophy Bonded Tip; it gave me 13 one-shot kills in Africa after my luggage arrived.
Much as I respect the. This is the cartridge the. Offering outstanding velocities and just enough bullet weight to be really effective, at a very polite price in recoil, the. With bullets in the to grain range, it's also superb for predators. But I digress. Choose a sleek bullet in the to grain range, which will exit the muzzle of your favorite deer slayer somewhere between 3, and 3, fps, and never look back. You'll be able to reach out to plus yards — if you're rifleman enough to do so ethically — with outstanding effect.
As for the bigger game, well, the. But with a grain Nosler Partition, it will do for caribou and elk as long as good shot presentations are taken. For the chap who pines for magnum performance but clings to the advantages of a standard-size cartridge greater magazine capacity, less recoil, more efficient powder usage, less costly brass, longer barrel life , the. By blowing out the case walls to a straighter taper and the case shoulder to a much steeper angle, P.
Ackley who was the master of the improved cartridge case turned the languishing. I dropped what was at the time my biggest bull with one well-placed shot at yards with the grain TTSX, which exits the muzzle of my custom rifle at 3, fps.
Better yet, the. Hornady's Joe Theilen shoots one in 1,yard benchrest competition with outstanding success. Loaded with a premium. Want to take your match-shooting skills across No Man's Land into the murky realm of long-range hunting? Load your. Not versatile, you say? Au contraire! Courtesy of the genius of Ackley's design, you can safely and effectively fire garden-variety.
In fact, that's the least expensive way to produce appropriate brass for your improved chamber. That little characteristic has pulled more than one wandering adventurer molested by the unreliability of the airline out of a slump and put him back in the hunting game. Plus, Nosler loads factory. On the other hand, it kicks a bit less and is more accurate. You could use them both on game from now until the sun goes supernova and not see an iota of difference.
On paper, the. What it will do, almost certainly, is shoot more accurately. Seldom in the history of firearms has one cartridge had so much effort invested in it, and the results are plain to see. The RPM has a standard degree shoulder and a rebated rim. The only other cartridge I can think of with a rebated rim is the. More important, its ballistics are formidable, but not extreme. It shoots grain Accu-Bond bullets at 3, fps, which is faster than a 6. This one, I believe, is a sleeper.
When people find out how easy it is to hit with it at long, long ranges, Weatherby will have a hard time keeping up with demand. The load and bullet were revised, and things were set right; however, I feel that there are still flaws in the. The first is the case capacity.
Secondly, most of the factory loads are using a grain pill and are struggling to get the velocity without generating really high pressures. I think the.
Nonetheless, many visiting sportsmen and Professional Hunters use the. Jack Lott, a veteran African hunter, had experienced those issues I outlined regarding the. He thought the full-length case of the. Lott was absolutely correct. The 0. As a handloader, I can use the Lott in a couple of ways. First, and most obvious, I can load it to its full-house specs for an extremely potent dangerous game cartridge. This keeps the pressures very low, and the century-plus history of the. The Lott also has another really cool feature: Because the.
If I were to choose a bolt-action. An insurgence in India resulted in the British Empire banning all. Joseph Lang took the. Mind you, the recipe is a familiar one: grain bullet at 2, fps, but with a bit more frontal diameter and yet enough sectional density to penetrate even the honeycombed bone of an elephant skull.
Among the diverse selection of Nitro Express cartridges that came along to replace the. It remains a popular choice to this day, with factory ammunition readily available, and many great double rifles being produced annually in this caliber. Some of them are reserved for the double guns—like the rimmed. The big Gibbs case will need to grains of powder to push those huge bullets, and it pushes the big and grain slugs to 2, fps, for just under 5, ft.
Couple that with the huge frontal diameter. CZ makes a fine rifle, and Montana Rifle Company makes their DGR with a nice big muzzle brake that actually makes it quite comfortable to shoot. But, if you want to put an exclamation point at the end of the hunting sentence, the.
In , Winchester laid claim to the design, and since that time the. Shooters have argued for years whether the. With regard to terminal performance on game, the two are extremely similar, and the. But the. It hits plenty hard, generating more than 4, pounds of energy. It's overkill on deer, but the big bullets at modest velocities don't damage much meat.
Ammo for the. The lighter bullets shoot relatively flat and the grain projectiles, with a sectional density of. Despite the fact that the. Perhaps nostalgia or a longing to hunt in faraway, exotic places is behind some of the.
That's because the. While there are plenty of cartridges that shoot flatter, hit harder, with less recoil and burn powder more efficiently, the. Rather than regurgitate ballistics that most shooters have indelibly ingrained in their psyche, I'll share my own experience with the cartridge. On a cull hunt in Texas we were asked to shoot several deer from a large property and provided. In total, the rifles accounted for dozens of deer and hogs from 50 to almost yards over the course of two days.
The results were excellent, with all but one of the animals being harvested with a single shot. That being said, the. Over the course of the next years, the. It isn't particularly flat shooting compared to more modern rifle cartridges, but recoil is minimal and for close to medium-range hunting on deer-sized game it's outstanding. The introduction of Hornady's LeveRevolution polymer-tipped ammunition helped the.
Still, when the last century is examined as a whole, the. Our editors have hand-picked these essential pieces of gear to make you a more successful hunter when you hit the game trails this season.
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