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Back in the day if a guy would of showed up on opening day of deer season with that thing, I would have been scoffed at.

Jwall,you make a valid point about a cheaper bullet for practice.

With the big bores a lighter and a heavier bullet would be a good idea. They lighter for fun and practice and the heavier for hunting the big stuff.

"Thank you Thank you very much" ! ! !

Yes, in more than 1 way.

I AIN'T wasting N Ps practicing, they're too expensive. Hold on, I need to look.....................................
sorry for the delay.

Not only do I have 200 N P, I have 200 Speer spitzers. "they say" made for Elk hunting. ? ?

I have bulk packed Remington 180 8mm PSPCL that I bought from Midway.

So..... ALSO, the LIGHTER bullet decreases recoil.


Seriously, this thread has stirred up my sediment of 'memory'. I haven't thot of those 180s in quite a while. I said in another post that
I had 180 or 185s. I honestly didn't remember. NO I haven't been shooting/practicing with the 8 lately.
I have 7 RM and 300 WM so I'm not delinquent in shooting magnums.


Jerry

Well, unless you showed them a 'bullet' - (cartridge) you could just say it's a 30-06. How many would have known?


I know guys who don't know WHAT a 6.5X55 is or a Swede for that matter, let alone a 8mm RM.

Jerry

"Back in the day", there was a 220 grain Hornady also. They discontinued it a few years ago.

Steve Hornady probably needed to buy some more decals to put on his guns!

When I used my Eight, I pretty well stuck with the 220 Barnes, Sierras and the Hornadys for practice. I think I experimented with Swifts also but never hunted with them.

Burned a lot of H4831 playing around with that gun. Now, I would probably start and finish with H1000 and a 200 grain TSX.

http://www.selwayarmory.com/pci-8mm-remington-magnum-175-gr-pspbt-box-of-20.html

Lousy bullet choice, but......…….just in case......… But it looks like it's going fast...…...…..

That would be a deer/antelope/sheep bullet IMO.

I wonder if that is a Sierra bullet?

Bought a classic when it came out. Worst kickin gun I ever owned. Had a brake put on it. Killed an elk. Loudest gun I owned.
Rebarreled to 300 rum. Killed an elk waaayyy out there.
Don't hunt there anymore. Rebarreled to 7 rm.
Love it now....
End of story.

Nope Sierra is not a BT

I had forgotten about that Hornady 8mm bullet. I wish I had tried those. I ‘think’
they would have been a decent bullet.

ATST they were not a Nosler, Swift, etc.

My preference for a N P is because you can drive it fast and be confident it
won’t explode.

Thnx

Jerry

About ten years ago I passed on a nice one that I just couldn't invent a need for. Now I look at that like passing on that high maintenance girl that your didn't have a need for. Maybe I'd have liked that rifle anyway.

Gotcha.

They have plenty of knock down power for antelope.

I watched a friend with a 8mm mag shoot two with one shot. Oooopsie.

Ya Reckon ?

Kicking this back to the curb one more time. Any of you fellows have experience with Remington factory ammo in the 8mm Rem Mag????