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Gunner,

Charlie Sisk once said, "Shut up, load Partitions, and go hunting."

LOL, I can live like hell with ALL that.

When I lived in Africa an old guy I knew said he killed lots of hippos growing up. He said he had an old 2 groove Springfield 03A3 he always used with 220g round nose bullets. He said most all were brain shots in the water.

Bb

Northfork or Barnes TSX. I’ve used em both. No need for a solid.

Anybody tried "Oryx" ? Design looks good..

Lasso the hippos and drag them out of the water, then shoot them.

ManyMoons,

I've shot quite a few head of plains game with the 156 Oryx from a 7x57, from springbok to wildebeest. It worked well, but like many bonded bullets it tends to open up into a wider mushroom, so won't penetrate quite as deeply as other some other bullets. But they tend to retain a lot of weight: The few I've recovered went between 85% and 93%.

Thanks Mule Deer..Last trip I shot 180 grain Scirroco2s in /06 and every one we recovered had a perfect mushroom.. and retained 153 to 160 wt,..Those things penetrate anything...I did figure out they need to be placed in shoulder 'cause lung shots went straight through and out so game ran a little ways if lung shot...Very accurate in our rifles....It was Rem factory..Just wish they were loaded a little faster..Thanks

We tried some TBT on whitetails out of Buffalo this year and I was sold on them until I saw the results ..Perfect mushroom but shoulder shots on two small deer put a big red splat on contact and blew up heart but penetration was only about 10 inches....30/06 165 grain and 50 ands 150 yds..I guess they are not for larger game....I also lost a nice buck at 290yds hit twice..Went back and searched again next day but could not find..Heard the hits and found blood pool..I wonder if penetration did not hit vitals ?