I used two Lee dies to take some PP 175 grain BTSP bullets from .323" to .318". When I shot them in my 110+ years old Sauer & Sohn Mauser 8X57J, after bore sighting at 50 yards with my 2 1/2X Lyman Alaskan scope, it placed two shots touching low and right, and with appropriate sight corrections it placed three shots into a cloverleaf in the "X" ring of a 100 yard small bore target. Certainly good enough for a whitetail.
I have a couple of Krieghoff drillings, both the side lock Neptun model, and one of them is in the 8x57's big brother, the 8X65RS. It's too bad I didn't have it when I made my Africa trips.
