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Fellas:

I will also post this in the big bores forum so noone misses it, but do any of you have experience with these bullets and, if so, what is your opinion?

Thanks.

i have no experience with this bullets myself but they do have a very good reputation in s-africa

I've never used them but have heard good reports about their performance. Years ago alot of folks had problems getting the bullets they paid for but I think that has been rectified.

I wanted to try their solids in my 416 Rigby, but their only US distributor was out of stock at that time and couldn't provide a definate date when they would be available. I decided not to bother since I want a readily available bullet. I used the Barnes banded solid for my elephant hunt with great results.

I have shot a lot of plainsgame, Cape Buffalo, one elephant, and nemourous deer and elk with them, I even tested some of them for Gerard early on..I usually have one of my clients bring me back some boxes of bullets when I run low and when I am sending them to RSA, my PH picks them up and gives them to the client who mails them to me on return...I also think there are a couple of dealers in the USA so you might check with Gerard on that..

IMO, they are the best monolithic bullet on the market and their flat nose solid is the very best of solids and is challanged only by the North Fork bullet Companys cup point IMO...

I assure you that you will be pleased with a GS Customs bullet in any caliber..they just work...

I am using them in my 404 on 8/10 for buffalo. 320 Gr HV Softs and 387 Gr. FN Solids. Also we are using the 270 FN solids in a 375 RUM.

Gerard does go against some of the African PH and or experts that seen to like slow heavy bullets. He likes light bullets with high velocity.

JS_LaCourse,

The experience I have is only target shooting with the 265 HV and some milk jug shooting. I will go get the info from that and post it after this. It is litteraly unbelieveable.

After working up a load for my .375-.416 Rem Mag (28" barrel), I took it to the range for sighting in. It was already sighted in for the 260 Noslers about 1 1/2" high at 100 yards. The first one hit exactly where the crosshair was aimed. The next one either missed the whole 8 1/2" X 11" target paper or went through the same hole. Just to be on the safe side, I fired another. I walked the 100 yards to check the target. There was an oval hole 1/16" larger than a bullet. It can't get any better, but I giave it another, anyway. The group opened up to 5/16". The velocity was 3050, 3055 and 3050 for the first three. I negelected to turn the Ohler 33 back on for the forth.

When I worked up a load of 130 grainers for my 7 STW, they averaged 3,625 feet per second. I sighted it dead on at 300 yards. The three shot group measured 1 3/16" so I went back and fired another. It went inside the group. I shot one group at 100 and it was 3/8".

Now I will go get the very much fun info. Sorry to you Nolser fans in advance.

101 water filled milk jugs were blasted. That's all that would fit into the back of my short bed Chevy. Valid or not, it was fun. I got the idea from Cliff who does one or two occationally. I decided to spend the whole day doing it. It takes a long time to pick up blasted jugs and set up new ones.

The following came from Cliff's info. The 25-06 Improved launched a 100 Barnes X at 3,600 and stopped in the sixth water jug. Its weight was 82 grains. From the same rifle shooting the same load into a five point bull elk, the recovered bullet weighed 82 grains. It entered the left part of the south end of the north bound elk and was found in front of the right shoulder.

Following are the results from Saturday, June 25, 2005 of the one gallon milk jugs filled with water. We set up a new 2 X 6 on some 1 X 4 legs. In front of that was the Oehler 33 and in front of that was your truly.

.224 60 grain Nosler Solid Base at 3,120. (.223) In the forth jug. Weighted 13 grains, just the base with a little lead. Took four shots to capture or find one. All four times it destroyed four jugs. Three shots at deer all exited. The funnest was one shot with the .223 60 grain solid base. Drop at the shot from 222 yards in the woods. Entered at the top of the sturnum and exited in front of the diaphram. I was about 100 feet above it.

.224 60 grain Nosler Partition at 3,118. (.223) In the forth jug. Weighted 44 grains.

.224 60 grain Nosler Partition at 3,407. (.22-250) In the sixth jug, but damaged the skin of the seventh. Weighed 44 grains. Notice 50% more penitration with about 10% more velocity.

.224 70 Spear 3,438 in the 3rd. Shot again. Same thing. Weighed about 12 grains in flat disc shape. And yet these will go clear through a deer broadside.

.308 180 Nosler Partition at 3,112. (.300 Weatherby) punctured the skin in the back of the sixth. Weight is 119 grains.

.308 150 Barnes X 3,458 in the sixth. (.300 Weatherby) 112 grains. Recovered bullet weighs almost the same as the heavier Nosler. This shows why lighter is catching on. Same terminal performance with noticalby less recoil.

7MM 140 Nosler Partition 3,591. (7STW) Out the back side of the fifth next one was in the sixth. 92 grains.

7MM 130 G.S.Custom 3,642 (7STW) in the sixth. Notice this is after a .300 Weatherby fired three times. And yet the down presure of the "wound channel" broke the front 1 X 4 leg. 88 grains.

Put the 2X6 on some 4X4's. Again we see the solid copper showing why lighter is catching on.

.454 Casull 260 Freedom Arms 1,925 out the side back of he eighth eighth. Shot again out the side back of ninth and damaged the side of the tenth. First five jugs were destroyed. I did shoot through a 24" log to get a buck one time. Second funnest deer I can remember.

.375 300 Nosler Partition (.375-.416 Rem) 2,925 in the seventh. One weighed 232 the other 204.

.375 260 Nosler Partition 2,976 (.375-.416 Rem)in seventh weighed 190

.375 260 Nosler Acubond 2,982 (.375-.416 Rem) in the sixth weighed 160

Does God like G.S.Custom?

.375 265 G.S. Custom 3,044 (.375-.416 Rem) out the back side of the seventh. It was laying between the seventh and eighth and weighed 196. This lighter bullet penetrated slightly better than the 300 grainer. Dispite this one weighing less than the 300 Nosler, it broke the new Doug Fir 2X6 which was purchased for this project! I will reiterate: The one shot with a G.S.Custom broke the new 2 X 6 after two 300 Partitions didn't, one 260 Partition didn't and one 260 Acubond didn't.

It produced a spectacular photo. The jugs after the whiteness of the first obliterated few are all in a row with a little water squirting out thier tops. What makes it so fun is the 2 X 6 is gone! It was blasted downward out of the photo by the water trying to get away from the "wound channel". Only the G.S.Customs damaged the water jug stand.

John Lachuck (gun writer) photoed every shot, John Ludden (son-in-law) read the Oehler 33 and yours truly shooting big stuff with out getting thumped because I use muzzle brakes.

I am a real fan of North Fork solids for DG and GS should work just about the same. I prefer North Fork because GS are harder to get around here.

I think the reason they (either one) are accurate is the large number of small driving bands on the bullets. Less deformation.

One thing I don't like about GS is their coating of moly or some other useless gunk that rubs off.

I have known Gerard for some years, and I think his girls are running the bullet selling operation now (unless things have changed again). I used to get bullets by having PH friends bring them here during the show season like Ray says, and I would take things over there (like US made stuff hard to get in RSA).

I used the .375/270 gr FN solid, and I would recommend them.

jim

.458 400gr. FN

Used on Brown Bear, Wild Boar and deer.

Works.

PM if more info wanted.

I am a Nosler fan Ringman, and I took no offense! Both Nosler and GS Customs are outstanding bullets, and in my case you could add North Fork and Woodleighs to that exclusive group.

I have used them a little here in Alaska. i tried 338 and 375 bullets and from my experience they are superbly accurate as well as quite tough. From a sample size of two soft nosed bullets that were recovered from moose i would say they may be too tough as the hollow point of both bullets only began to open and expanded maybe a 16th of an inch.
I also have three solids that were also recovered from moose and two of them showed a little flattening of the meplat and one was slightly bent.