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I'm headed to South Africa in August for plains game and taking my 7mm Remington Mag. What would be your choice for kudu and bushbuck ?
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160 gr Nosler Partition or Swift A-Frame.
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160 gr Nosler Partition or Swift A-Frame. +1 on these choices.
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Barnes, Etips, and GMX are also good choices. I used Etips out of a 30-06 with excellent results last year.
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welcome to the 'fire... grab a sitting log
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A mono in the 150-160 gr range would work well.
What is more important is that you spend time shooting off practice sticks. Quickly. Again.
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I used 150 noslers, worked well.
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Barnes, Etips, and GMX are also good choices. I used Etips out of a 30-06 with excellent results last year. What weight E-Tips and your load. And +1 on welcome to the Fire. DF
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South Africa does not have lead ban FYI.
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Are there any lead bans in Africa, or is that just in Kalifornia...?
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Africans got more sense than those left leaning tree huggers out on the Left Coast...
What's so amazing, you get back from the coast a few miles, you find really good people, pickup trucks, horses, normal folk who know how to vote.
Just too many Libtards and illegals voting too many of their kind to Sacramento. The good folk don't have a say.
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Africans have their liberals DF. SA has almost the same problems as the USA,just on a much smaller scale. Corruption,spending money on stupid ideas,welfare, you name they have it.
Liberalism is a global disease.
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Africans have their liberals DF. SA has almost the same problems as the USA,just on a much smaller scale. Corruption,spending money on stupid ideas,welfare, you name they have it.
Liberalism is a global disease. It's a disease all right, an expensive, debilitating disease. DF
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I'm headed to South Africa in August for plains game and taking my 7mm Remington Mag. What would be your choice for kudu and bushbuck ? I'd have to go with the heavies in the 7 Mag, 175 NPT's or SAF's, depending on which one my rifle shot more accurately. RL-22 or IMR-7828 can put you in a very good spot.
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My 8 twist Brux 7RM really does well with 175's and seems to like RL-25 better than RL-22 with that bullet weight.
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Africans have their liberals DF. SA has almost the same problems as the USA,just on a much smaller scale. Corruption,spending money on stupid ideas,welfare, you name they have it.
Liberalism is a global disease. It's a disease all right, an expensive, debilitating disease. DF Yup.
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My 8 twist Brux 7RM really does well with 175's and seems to like RL-25 better than RL-22 with that bullet weight.
DF Bet 25, 26 and even Retumbo would be good, although I've never tried them in the 7 Mag.
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My 8 twist Brux 7RM really does well with 175's and seems to like RL-25 better than RL-22 with that bullet weight.
DF Bet 25, 26 and even Retumbo would be good, although I've never tried them in the 7 Mag. Probably so with that wt. bullet, may add H-1000 to that list. My 7RM also likes the 180 gr. VLD with RL-25. Not sure how well the VLD would do in Africa, seems to work pretty well on most BG critters, quick kills. Wonder if it gets used that much in Africa? DF
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