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Anyone used Prvi's ammo loaded with this bullet on game?

http://www.prvipartizan.com/rifle_grom.php

No, but I bought 3 boxes of the .30/06 to try in my Sako FN. At $17 a box it's not much more than empty brass.

The bullet looks like an unbonded Trophy Bonded Bear Claw; small lead core in a solid base. Ought to work on shoulder shots.

I may try a box of 7mm Rem Mag and .30-06. I use Prvi ammo and brass with my 9.3x62 with no complaints.

Looked around their site a little... Now I know where all the writers that did the Japanese camera and motorcycle manuals back in the sixties are working now

Ah,the 60's. I don't remember them so I reckon I was there.

I haven't used this GROM stuff but I've used the regular 9.3 x 62 PRVI on some pretty tough game and it works just fine. Just bought some 7MM Mauser 140's and they are more accurate than Remington CoreLokt and my handloads in my new (to me) Mark X. Should be fine for East Texas whitetails. It doesn't take much to kill one of them. In my experience, all this ammo. has been pretty good stuff. Leftover brass seems to be of good quality.

7mm Mag with 158s going 2762 fps seems a tad anemic.

Velocity ain't every thing. They look like TBB knockoffs. Ought to penetrate. Don't know how much they'll expand as there's not much lead there. One way to find out.

Well, it does work.

Cool. What'd Porky weigh?

I knew you'd come through eventually, Parson.

Not huge: 108 on the scale. A few weeks ago, this one fell to a Grom as well, same rifle. He was so long we couldn't get the head and part of the shoulder off the ground, and the scale was pegged at 300 pounds; so he weighed a little more.


Here is the exit wound from the little sow yesterday. The bullet entered the neck on the other side and angled out through the shoulder. The exit on the big fellow was the same: small hole going in, a little larger coming out.

This is actually the third pig I've taken with these loads. I just forgot about this thread. I guess I'm getting old...like Ingwe.

Nonsense.

No one's old like Ingwe.😜

I bought some to try in 7x57 but have not shot anything with them yet. They were too cheap not to try.

They grouped ok in the two 7x57s I shot them in at the range.

Richard

That's what I'm shooting - 7x57. I'd like to recover one to see what they look like but all three pigs have been through and through.

You just need to find a bigger pig!

Or line two or three small ones up.

I'm trying, I really am!

Rev, was hoping you would report on a field test with these bullets. From here it looks like the pigs died but was curious about the wound channel. The exit doesn't look like they over expanded much....

Because all of these were late afternoon kills, I didn't have a lot of time (or the correct light) to open them up to see what the wound channels look like. My guess is that these perform much like a TSX or E-Tip, expanding only as far as the thin lead core. I'm not finished with them yet and hope to see what the wound channel looks like when time and light permit.

Have you given them a try?