Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Ramshot Hunter?

Like you kept telling another poster here in another thread, "stop thinking about energy"!!! i could care the fu ck less about top speeds, as long as the load is consistently accurate. My hunting rifles use scopes with ballistic type reticles, or dials I trust. You shoot a 7mm08 a lot and have made some nice long shots on big critters. That is commendable. But if one load is 50-100 fps slower and shoots better, I'm going to use the one that is considerably more accurate/precise. That load above with the measly ol 150 partition flies very well out to 400 yards. That's not far, but like I've said, that is what I've tested it to. Many times. It will easily and consistently make kills out to that range. No problems whatsoever, and that is with a cheap (but proven) Burris FFII 3-9x40. As for your loading style, I've said this before, but it is borderline reckless. You like starting out at top book loads and then adjust OAL to find a decent load, where I "WORK UP" and find loads by means of OCW. Most times keeping bullets at a reliable .020" off the lands. That is the safe way to develop loads. It is funny how you kept telling one poster over and over again, don't worry about "energy", yet you continually focus on high speeds. That schidt just doesn't compute...