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I shot some guineas with my .375..head shots...no kidding...

Ingwe

I love you man!

Theres enough of them running around that you can pick and choose...its really pretty sweet...We were having a tough time getting on Buffalo in Zim,so I pulled rank and declared a [bleep]-off day..."Targets of Opportunity"
So the Guineas, Baboons, and Impala took a hit that day

Ingwe

It's a JP Sauer 9X57 19" barrel...I don't really know the age. Grandpa took it in on a trade for some chickens in about 1950 so the story goes. I shot a bear and a couple of whittails with it when I was in my teens and it went to Ontario for bear a few times with relatives. I'd love to get another bear with it before I can't see the sights anymore...they are kinda fading fast...lol

We've always fed it a diet of 43 grs of 3031 with .358 Hornady RN's. I expect there are better loads than that but it shoots to the sights with it.

I could enjoy slaying Guineas, damn things.

God wouldn't have given birds heads if he didn't want us to shoot them there.

I'm trying to convince my dad that we should do the world a favor and kill a baboon. He says it looks too much like one of his drunk uncles.

Welp, y'all, its bed time for middle age/old farts to go to sleep and make a mad 6 mile dash tomorrow.

I like it, one of the x57's I don't own.

Dam you! I just changed my sig line...or I'd be using that...

Might have to file and plagiarize later....

Ingwe

Face Off!!

Ingwe

I'm sort of a X57 fan. This year was the first in about 15 that my primary rifle wasn't a 7X57. I've got those in a matching Sauer, a #1A and a 700 Rem Mountain rifle. I have an 8X57 in a sauer too. That should be a fave...I just never get to using it.

GRIN

I've probably had as much fun with 'targets' of opportunity as what I was hunting at that time.

LOL...now thats a bird pic!

Night boys, going fishing tomorrow.

Thats it for me too...going "working" tommorow...

Ingwe

Catch a bunch!

Ingwe is that a BL22 in your grouse photo. I use mine and get about 3 head wing shots a year. They are a sweet accurate little rifle. I also have a browning 22 pump from 1950 that is faster than the lever even. They used to make really good rifles when FN .
Randy

I miss a couple of days and this thing has gone 16 pages! Wow!

Ummm, how is the rifle shooting? Tried the 180TTSX's yet? I used them a couple of times in Africa with a 300 RUM and they are penetrating machines. Went end to end on a Kudu cow (leopard bait) starting in the rump and blowing a BIG hole out of the front shoulder area. I was impressed. Agree on loading them waaaayyy back. In my experinece, .050 is still too close to the lands in most cases. I did read about the long throat in your dad's rifle, I would still try the TTSX's loaded with a pretty short OAL. Does not seem like it should work, but it does. I could send you a few to try, but they are all coated in Moly. Let me know if you want me to send you a dozen or so.