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Surprised he didn't get two holes in the sheep. Congrats to him on a great trip!

I dont know how to post the pics, but can text them or email them to someone that does.

A 10+ lb Sendero in any caliber let alone a 300 RUM isn't my idea of a sheep rifle. To each their own

It'll work just fine...

Agreed....in real life. On the internet.........

My Senderos are heavy. I think I would like a lighter rifle if I was hunting on foot. A 6.5 Creedmoor with a 120 Barnes would take a two hundred pound goat with ease.

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As for the choice of weapon, it is his most consistently accurate rifle. He has a 5# rifles Inc, but is getting re-barreled. He hunts everything with the 300 RUM, and if it tickles him a 338 RUM or Lapua. In africa he carries a Lott. We don't subscribe to the theory of being over gunned. If either of us travel to hunt, we dont want to ever be hampered by a poor angle or by being too far for a cartridge to do its job. So we both use a little larger than average cartridges. The terrain wasn't that difficult, and in reality, a couple of pounds on the rifle isnt nearly as big of deal as the 10 or 20 pounds on most guys waist. My every day rifle weighs about 10# too and i carry that up elk mountains. Likely never be able to hunt sheep financially.

I hear you, Salmo. While I usually don’t tote my .300 Weatherby on a deer only hunt and defer to .257 Roberts or .308 Winchester, I killed my biggest mule deer at very close range with the 300 Roy. I’m with you on “there is no such thing as too much gun”.

I am a sheep hunter and most will lighten and shorten everything they own except for your 10 x , German bins.
The spotting scope and everything else is also weighed and reduced if possible.
Sheep rifles are light , short and compact. Especially if the hunter has got some age on him.
North American sheep are not tough to kill either.
My little old opinion

I have used just about every hunting style bullet there is in the 300 RUMs and in my 30-378's. The 180 BT will do just fine up to and including elk. I have never recovered one.

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The only two ways I'd expect a 180 Ballistic Tip to stay inside a 200-pound animal are:

If it's one of the older 180 BT's, with thinner jackets.

If it's one of the "new" 180 BT's with heavy jackets, on a full-length shot, and maybe not even the. (New is in quotes because the heavy-jacket version has been standard for a quite a few years now.)

I've shot Dall sheep with a 300 RUM on a mixed bag hunt. I was using 180 Partitions and they worked just like a Partition should on both the sheep and a bull moose.

I used 180 Accubond on a Stone sheep out of a 300 Weatherby at 350 yards quartering away. Entered behind last rib and came out in front offside shoulder. Perfect performance IMO.

I see so reason why the 180 BT won't do the trick just the same.

Awesome animals!

salmonhead-

Congrats to your brother - that's pretty cool.

Sounds miserable toting that rifle in sheep country. I shot mine with a .270 and 130gr Hornady Interbond. Perfect combo, imo.

Aside from hauling that piano on my back, my concern with that bullet choice would be ruining a cape on a once in a lifetime critter. Hit shoulder with that cannon and you could have a softball sized hole in the hide.

That combo will make any sheep deader than dead, but it wouldn’t be my choice for a lot of reasons.

Even a lug nut at 300 RUM velocities should do the job.

Just out of curiosity, where did this hunt take place? I've never heard of javelinas, sheep, and Coues deer overlapping in habitat but I may have missed something.

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Okie John

Somewhere in Mexico. He flew into Tuscan and met all the people necessary and drove over the border from there. Not sure how long the truck ride was.