Thanks, Dober,
Who woulda ever thunk a 3-pt would make book, but mine green-netted 141 B&C, so should easily make B&C all time. The 4x5 grosses just under 130. And, they are free range deer too. I really got lucky, for sure.
This little rifle is pretty much my go-to rig for deer and hogs. Over the last 15 years or so, I've shot maybe 10 deer and around 30 pigs. I can recall no collected bullets from deer as all exited, but I did retrieve one nicely mushroomed bullet from a big boar. There's really nothing magical about Speer's 130 gr BT--it is just a basic cup-and-core bullet, but my gun simply loves it. Three-shot groups often make nice little clover leafs and almost never exceed 1 MOA. I like R-15 for the velocity, but IMR4320 is even more accurate, but sadly 120fps slower.
I've shot nothing bigger than deer/hogs with this sweet outfit. I like bigger rounds for bigger animals, usually with Nosler Partitons. (In fact, my buttocks are still smoldering when I boo-hooed the .25-06 for elk in this forum last week--talk about getting flamed! Undaunted tho, I will NOT be using my .25-06 for elk in Wyoming this fall, nor my beloved 7-08; I'll have my .300 Winny with 200 gr Partitions!)
