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My head is still reeling from the previous months Optics column !

MD : could you compare & contrast performance of the Nightforce Compact @ $1950. (gasp !!) with say a Bushnel Elite 2.5-10x40 at a fraction of the cost.

I've been shooting H450 for decades and still have a couple pounds left. In my hands it is slower than the 4350 powders.

I consider H450 to be the ball version of H4831 when it comes to performance. With the same charge, the two powders give similar velocities. Even with magnum primers, H450 burns a bit dirtier, though, but it meters much more consistently than H4831.

Recently changed my middle name to Sue.
How do you do?

H450 was a surplus military powder. I used it in my 243 with 100gr bullets and it gave superior velocity and accuracy. It gave my 243 quite a bark but with a more vicious bite. I wish I had known it was discontinued before my local GS sold it all. It was pretty much like W780.

Yes it is! That'd be a Marilyn Chamber reference

That WAS funny. I had to cheat via Google though. Turns out she's dead too.

Thought that reference was to Linda Loveless.

Who cares? Both ladies had the talent.
Paul B.

I found the Mag today and bought it. great article. I have had good luck with the nosler 150 gr BT. didn't see them listed. Have you tried those in the 7x57. I use the 160 nosler partition on heavy game such as elk.

Tell Jeff John to put all those darn ads in the back 3 pages. It feels like Im reading the shotgun news instead of the newest issue of the GUNS Mag. The ad's are bigger than the articles.

good write up on the 7x57 Mule Deer. keeps it alive.

I have had very good luck with 160 gr NAB in my CLR/NULA hybrid.

donsm70

PRWLR, Linda Lovelace, get em straight!-Muddy

Billc,

Glad you liked the article!

I tried 150 Ballistic Tips in the Kilimanjaro 7x57 listed, thinking it would be a great all-around bullet, and the rifle hated them. Some rifles are like that. You can use the data listed for the 156 Oryx.

Jeff John doesn't have anything to do with where the ads go, since that's not the editor's job.

Thank You Mule Deer. I know the rifles are finicky about the weights. the ruger tang safety loves the 150gr nosler. If the rifle will group at MOA with the heavy bullet, its a keeper in my book, and Im done looking. and im just joshing you about the ad's in the mag. doesn't make a diff to me. I like your article.

It's not the weight that my 7x57 is finicky about, since it shoots 150-grain Nosler Partition very well. It might be the "hard" boattail of the 150 Ballistic Tip, because I've run into a few other 7mm rifles that didn't much care for that bullets, even though most do.

Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell

My 7x57 although it does have a Rim. I'm looking forward to deer hunting with it one of these days, birds and coyotes have eaten up my time the past few years. 173 gr S&B's open the group a little more. It shoots so well with these inexpensive loads that I might not even bother loading for it, 139's and 173's pretty much cover anything I'm going to hunt with it and I have a good stock of Brenneke 16ga slugs and NP "F" shot loads.

Growing up with a name like that would tend to make a boy pretty tough...

DF

This one shoot's 150BT's really well. [img:center][/img]

This one really likes 140's, not so much heavier bullets.

So, guess what its getting fed...

Could do worse than 140 NBT's, NAB's and NPT's, for sure, not to exclude others in that class. Just haven't tried those, yet.

DF