My best friend uses a handloaded 200 gr. Nosler Partition for his elk load and thinks it does a most excellent job. I used 180s for elk but,I have a box loaded with the old Nosler semi-spitzer coaxed along at 2660 fps with IMR-4350 just in case I can make it to the mountains one more time.


Shew me thy ways, O LORD: teach me thy paths.
"there are few better cartridges on Earth than the 7 x 57mm Mauser"
"the .30 Springfield is light, accurate, penetrating, and has surprising stopping power"