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I'm glad to hear the 200 Partitions are so accurate. I bought a few hundred last fall from SPS. Figured I give em a go in my 300 WBY and maybe even the old 30-06.

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I have blem 200 NPT's on the way from SPS and have the powders mentioned. I have some 60's vintage H-4831 that shoots great, so may try it. Also will try Magnum, Retumbo and RL-22.

I have an Ed Brown Damara in .300 WM. I'm thinking what a nice rig it would be, loaded with 200 Partitions, for a Nilgai cow hunt this Spring. The gun is pretty light and shoots great. I just mounted my Zeiss Victory 1.5-6x42, thinking it would be a good scope for that type hunting.

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Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
Looking to try 200 NPT's in my .300 WM.

Would appreciate pet loads for that combo.

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I recently worked up 200 grain loads for two different 300 win mags. Without exception, Magpro was my go-to powder. 79 grains gave me 3000 fps and <.5 MOA. Book loads show up to 82 grains but that is too high in anything I have seen. This was with Accubonds and Bergers so work up a little with the Partitions.


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72gr RE22 Gives Me 2800fps and good accuracy in a 24" ruger


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My load for my .300 was Re22 and the 200 part.. It clocked 2950fps, but it does have a 26 inch barrel..


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Originally Posted by Ralphie
A 300 win mag is my main big game rifle. And 200 NPs are all I shoot out of it. This may border on treason on 24hour, but I really hate experimenting with different loads or changing my load for the next hunt or game animal.

I built my rifle wanting it to be able to handle almost anything with one load.



Bravo! And the 200 gr Partition is a great load for the 300 WM.I used to get a bit over 2900 fps from the 300 WM,and a bit over 3000 in the Weatherby. The bullet is a great penetrator.




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Originally Posted by BobinNH
Originally Posted by Ralphie
A 300 win mag is my main big game rifle. And 200 NPs are all I shoot out of it. This may border on treason on 24hour, but I really hate experimenting with different loads or changing my load for the next hunt or game animal.

I built my rifle wanting it to be able to handle almost anything with one load.



Bravo! And the 200 gr Partition is a great load for the 300 WM.I used to get a bit over 2900 fps from the 300 WM,and a bit over 3000 in the Weatherby. The bullet is a great penetrator.


Ralphie nailed it didn't he Bob. I'm a 1 bullet 1 load kind of guy as well. Especially when I find a sweet one. I decided when I was using the 300 win mag that that was the only bullet I was going to use. I remember working up a load in my left hand Ruger m77 mkII 300 win mag that was a hair over 2,900 fps and that's all the faster I cared to push that bullet/rifle combo. Plenty of thump and very accurate. Sorry guys, but I'm a big time IMR 4350 user in just about everything I own. That's the powder I ran:

68g. IMR 4350
R-P brass
CCI 250
Nosler 200gr. partition
3.355" (.020" off the lands)

Sub moa 5 shot groups at 2910 fps average velocity... I'm also one of the guys that bought up a bunch of those $13.45/50 200 gr. partitions last month. Couldn't pass that deal up!!! They will get used in my dad's 300....


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bsa: Ralphie usually does... wink smile




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He sounds very reasonable to me. Back when I was using my 300 win mag, that was the only rifle in the safe if you can believe that crazy. If a 200gr. partition running 2900 fps didn't put the smack down on anything I wanted to hunt, it didn't need to be hunted...


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I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style.
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JOC once wrote that if you can't kill an animal with a 300 mag and a 200 gr bullet, that animal would be pretty hard to knock off with anything... smile

It's a pronghorn to brown bear load.




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I agree Bob. They wouldn't let me use it when shooting steel plate comp. They figured it would do some pretty serious damage laugh. They catered to the guys running 308's. I had to drop down to 2700 and run an accubomb. SOB's it still pisses me off, I would have rather used the partition load I had worked up. It was a nail driving mother!!. It's one of those great bullets, especially when coupled to something like the 300 win mag or 300 wby..


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I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style.
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I knew an older hunter who used 200 Partitions from a .300 on both lions and Cape buffalo in Africa on more than one safari, with no problems. His African hunting mostly took place back when the 200 Partition was a "semi-spitzer," which basically meant roundnose.

In fact I know a retired PH who killed hundreds of buffalo on control with 180 Partitions from a .30-06, including mature bulls, and never felt a need to change. But he was one of those who used a .375 H&H for following up buffalo his clients had wounded, usually with much larger cartridges.

However, most African countries still have minimum-cartridge laws instituted in the days when all bullets were pretty primitive.


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Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
I have blem 200 NPT's on the way from SPS and have the powders mentioned. I have some 60's vintage H-4831 that shoots great, so may try it. Also will try Magnum, Retumbo and RL-22.

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Sounds like a familiar plan, I was looking for some 180's to feed my 300's when they shot the deal on 200's at SPS,I ordered 250 and with the shipping they cost less than 2 boxes of 50 locally. Ought to work in any bigger 30 as good or better than anything else. Magnum Man

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200 grain partitions and a max load of either Retumbo or IMR 4350 shoot consistantly well under an inch from my rifle. Max loads as per Nosler reloading manual #6. So I bet most of the powders they recommend in between will shoot fine also. 200 grain accubonds also at the max Retumbo load.

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JOC also wrote about [don't remember which book] the spooky accuracy of some 200 grain bullet in his 30-06. Perhaps it was the Partition. I believe he was so enthralled with the tiny groups that he expended all his supply in 'group shooting'.

For what it's worth, JOC was a very big fan of the 30-06.


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Originally Posted by Talus_in_Arizona
JOC also wrote about [don't remember which book] the spooky accuracy of some 200 grain bullet in his 30-06. Perhaps it was the Partition. I believe he was so enthralled with the tiny groups that he expended all his supply in 'group shooting'.

For what it's worth, JOC was a very big fan of the 30-06.

Just think what he may have accomplished in life with a .300 mag... grin

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Jack sure hit it right.. His way paid to hunt all over the world..


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Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
Originally Posted by Talus_in_Arizona
JOC also wrote about [don't remember which book] the spooky accuracy of some 200 grain bullet in his 30-06. Perhaps it was the Partition. I believe he was so enthralled with the tiny groups that he expended all his supply in 'group shooting'.

For what it's worth, JOC was a very big fan of the 30-06.

Just think what he may have accomplished in life with a .300 mag... grin

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He had a 300 Weatherby.... smile




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Originally Posted by BobinNH
Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
Originally Posted by Talus_in_Arizona
JOC also wrote about [don't remember which book] the spooky accuracy of some 200 grain bullet in his 30-06. Perhaps it was the Partition. I believe he was so enthralled with the tiny groups that he expended all his supply in 'group shooting'.

For what it's worth, JOC was a very big fan of the 30-06.

Just think what he may have accomplished in life with a .300 mag... grin

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He had a 300 Weatherby.... smile

Being you mentioned it, I do remember that and seeing him in photos with Roy.

I don't remember .300 Wby articles by him, although there must have been some.

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