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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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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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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.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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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....
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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bsa: Ralphie usually does...
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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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 crazy](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/crazy.gif) . 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...
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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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 smile](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif) It's a pronghorn to brown bear load.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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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 laugh](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) . 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..
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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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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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.
DF 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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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 grin](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/grin.gif) DF
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Jack sure hit it right.. His way paid to hunt all over the world..
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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. Just think what he may have accomplished in life with a .300 mag... ![grin grin](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/grin.gif) DF He had a 300 Weatherby....
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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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. Just think what he may have accomplished in life with a .300 mag... ![grin grin](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/grin.gif) DF He had a 300 Weatherby.... 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. DF
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