Originally Posted by dave7mm
That was my idea to lighten things up some. And I had all the parts. I was looking at the 25-06 AI... I passed...
I run hot and cold on ballistic tips. Used them for years. Great accuracy but had alot of dead deer running type situations.
Mashburn. Ran 150g BT... Had two deer run over 150 yards. Switched out to a 168g hunting Berger.
Without a dought the biggest mess I've ever seen.
Disgusting. Bullet exploded. Never seen anything like that.
Switched out to the 26 Nosler and accubond. Worked well.
The 270 STW. Was a fun project. Very hard on barrels.
Dave


The Ballistic Tips have worked great for me on deer in a few cartridges but I’d bet the 150 7mm and 150 270 act more like a heavier bullet. They have killed fine just in a more traditional fashion.

I can’t imagine the Berger hitting up close, I’d bet that was fairly graphic.

The 100 grain Ballistic Tip was pretty good at even at under a 100 yards in mine and my cousins 25-06’s a few years back. I used RL22 for those and guess I was around 3300 if I recall. Those were like a light switch for a handful of deer. I switched to the Scirocco since but only cause I wanted to, not cause the BT didn’t work. The Scirocco is like a BT that exits. If that makes sense.

Good luck. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.

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58 and 58.6 shoot pretty well in mine.

Now looking at my targets, I really need to get this one back into the fold!

Last edited by beretzs; 10/09/20.
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