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I bought an old Sauer & Sohn '98 in the early '70's when the 9.3 was a pretty rare bird over here, no dies, no bullets etc. so the kicker was 5 boxes of RWS factory 286 gr. I was happy with that for years...but then Barsness reported getting some speed, 2500 I think, so I thought, I should do that too...wrong, I couldn't handle the recoil. The original steel buttplate and stock drop at heel didn't help. So, I duplicated the old RWS load velocity, 2150 I think, with Hornady bullets and 4895 until I sold it 5 years ago. Elk cows didn't even know the bullet was going too slow.