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Originally Posted by flintlocke
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If you are seriously comptemplating shooting at a game animal at 600 yards you should buy 500 of the bullets that shoot best in your rifle and use 480 of them practicing shooting from 50-600 yards.

Damn well straight. If the practice doesn't improve their shooting it at least gives 'em a reality check on fatal hit probability using the real life shooting positions used in the field. A lot of Sportsmans Warehouse trained snipers out there with high expectations and damn little experience.


I’ve never been in a sportsman’s warehouse in my life. But thanks for the tip. I settled on the 180 partitions. 1st bullet I tried, and the gun shot them 1/2 at 100 yards. Fired 5 shots at deer during our 2 week rifle season, and killed 5 deer. Decent buck at just over 400 yards, and 4 doe between 207 and 378 yards.


Oh, and believe it or not, deer bite. Fairly hard.
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Originally Posted by borden811
Hmmmm. I think I’ll start with 165 and 180 partitions and accubonds, and see what shoots best.


I think that’s sound reasoning.

165gr Accubond shoots tiny little groups in my .06 at 100 yds. Using some of the newer powders will get you some decent speed out of that bullet. My gun likes RL-16 at 2,935 fps....pretty fast and flat out of the ole 30.06.

I like Barnes T-TSX as well but speed is the ticket with the Barnes for long range. You certainly don’t need anything bigger than 150gr and you should be able to get that moving at 3,000 fps with the right powder.

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