What do you plan to shoot with it?
I don't shoot at 700 yards because my range steel only goes out to 565 yards.
The only thing I have shot the steel with in my 300RUM at 565 yards are 180 ETips.
I normally use my 308 to shoot the 565 yard steel. My favorite bullets are 125 TNTs cause they are cheap.
At 700yards with the RUM I would think there would be several decent choices.
At much farther yardage, it would make more sense to split hairs.
I'm preparing for an elk hunting trip for Colorado next year and want to minimize the potential error due to wind deflection of I have higher wind and a long shot. Range where I'm at in Michigan I can shoot out to 700yds. There's a good chance I'll be inside 700yds but given the RUM is hard on barrels I'd like to develop a load that's focused around minimal windage error. The 225 ELD looks the best from the ballistics I've run with the Hornady software and the 300 RUM velocity potential. Given that the ELD is not a hunting bullet I'll have to work with something else, but the 225gr looks to be the best balance in the RUM.
