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J@45-70guy I haven't tried the oryx bullet's, they aren't available in that cal in Australia. A lot of people use the 250 hotcore for...
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JThat’s awesome Bob, I’ve always been a fan of those Hornady Round nose since I was a younger lad getting into reloading. I had used a...
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J@45-70guy My longest shot to date with the Whelen was 275 lasered yards on my impala with the 225gn accubond. One shot and done. Those...
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JThe furthest I’ve had to opportunity to take game was on a black bear at 200 yards, the barnes exited and dropped him instantly. I...
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J@45-70guy In my humble opinion the Whelen doesn't need expensive monos to kill well. A good bonded bullets is fine. The only accubond I...
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JBob thank you for all that, I like to be able and compare everyone’s different experiences and results along with my own. Your...
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J@45-70guy A load no one has mentioned yet is the Sierra load of 70gn of CFE223 behind the 225gn game king spbt. Very accurate in my...
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J@CBH Australia As one poster said he spoke to a PH that had plenty of experience with the 350 Rigby on cape buff and it worked fine so...
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J@45-70guy I found with the old 250gn Hornady Round nose I have to go to 66gn to get the velocity because of the smaller bearing...
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J@45-70guy I've used CFE223 in a few different calibres 222, 223,308 and the Whelen in temps of over 40 degrees Celsius and haven't...
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J@45-70guy As you know I run mine full throttle all the time. I'm using Remington cases and still haven't trimmed after upto 7 loads. I...
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J35 Whelen pressures = Bob’s response to every cartridge thread :LOL: Sorry Bob it was low hanging fruit
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J@Art Lambart II Dunno about that mate. At least he wants an anst in the Whelen not the 243 so I will have to be serious. Bob
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J@45-70guy I used Speers data for the 250gn hot cores and got a chronograph velocity of 2,680 fps out of my 25inch barrel Using the...
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JI don’t have access to MR -2000 currently but do have a pile of cfe223 hence the usage, and it may be because I’m testing at shorter...
