Several friends talked about 7mags giving terrible results, i really didnt believe them.
Then we started using them. Hunting elk, and at home on deer. Saw a guy using 140s destroy a cow, run out of ammo and have to borrow more to kill it.
Dad had experiences from pencil holes to massive damage with the 150s. One, a doe shot at about 35 yards, penciled through the lungs. Only his disbelief he could have missed kept him looking until he found a drop of blood. A long track lead to the deer. Without snow, it would have been lost.
I was loading my owm by then, Dad saw me use Partitions for the elk hunts, and suddenly he overcame his prejudice against reloads.
First, I pulled the Remington bullets from his stash of factory loads, and replaced them with Partitions and Solid Base Boattails (a great bullet discontinued to push BT's).
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
