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270 Win! Zero at 200 and you can hold dead on at 600!!

Although I really try to practice a lot, I am still fairly new to long range shooting and will not pretend that I know enough to give info on terminal performance on big game of bullets at real long range What I do know or learnt is that checking and rechecking and rechecking again is helping me a lot to get more consistent shooting results.

From what we experience regarding hunters wounding animals there is one particular locally made bullet that were recovered from wounded animals more than any other brand and it is Impala Bullets. It is a monolithic that do not expand, that is advertised as a hunting bullet. The manufacturer claims that the shock wave caused by the shape of the bullet as it enters the animal causes enough damage to the organs to kill the animal quickly. Our neighbor have half his pickup truck's ashtray filled with these bullets that he recovered from wounded animals during weeks, after hunters hunted their property. I am not saying the bullet does not work, but I would not recommend it, not even to mention shooting at longer range with them as the BC will be horrible and for that shock wave effect to occur that they talk about it will have to impact the animal with a decent amount of speed (I am guessing here)

Regarding running various bullets in different calibers is difficult to sum up. We use mainly 6s to 338s.I can honestly say that the 6.5s are more than adequate enough for animals up to the size Kudu and even non premium bullets such as Interlocks have done the job on Kudu extremely well. I love the low BC of the 7s and 6.5s but I still think the right 30 - 338 cal would create better wound channels which leads to quicker death and maybe some of the guys here on the forum can shed more light on this. I think in the end the rifle and bullet you choose to use at long range should be the one you practice with most as shooting at different altitude, temp angles ect is critical and then understanding what that combo does. We see every year when we hunt in Namibia compared to our place that the atmospheric differences (excluding the tricky one which is wind) can make a 1/2 moa at 100 rifle a 1 moa rifle when we sight in our rifles. You will basically have to develop a whole new load for that part of Namibia for that rifle if you wanted to shoot at longer range. Funny thing is, we arrive back home, take that rifle and then it shoots back at 1/2 moa as it did before we left! Shooting in heat is also something I avoid as the heat waves is just too much of a disturbance and I feel like I am just wasting ammo then.

BTW, what is the 130 Bitterroot?

Thanks

Pieter

270 Win! Zero at 200 and you can hold dead on at 600!!

Pieter,

Based on your experience I would suggest the 300 RUM with the 230 gr Berger Match Hybrid Target bullet. It has a BC of .743 which will be a big help to minimalize wind drift. You can get 3000 fps or a bit more with the right powders. H-1000 will be closer to 2900 but RL-33 has proven to get close to 3100 fps from a 26" barrel.

This heavy for caliber bullet exits with excellent wound channels. Before anyone trashes this bullet read these two links:

http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/230gr-berger-used-africa-success-138852/\

This thread features the 300 win mag with the 230 gr hybrid OTM which is constructed the same as the 230 match hybrid target just shorter for short magazine application and a slightly lower BC. Same performance.

http://www.longrangehunting.com/for...ybrid-terminal-results-80283/index3.html