300 Winchester Magnum bullets for plains game

[CBH Australia]

@CBH Australia
How did those loads go I gave you mate
Bob

Ahh, what year was that? That’s a pretty covid post for sure because it’s before I took possession of that rifle.

I’m sure it’s in my vague notes as I did try the 180gn SST and I have a few Atomic 29 loads in .300wm.

The .300wm doesn’t get out much but I can get close to 1moa accuracy and it’s sighted ready to go. Just some rifles get out more than others.

 

[Gert Odendaal]

Thank you members, as always it is a great pleasure to receive this informative opinions and advice.
I would then use the ELD-X for target /gong shoot , will then purchase the AXE 180gn bullets here in South Africa. The local bullets are R5 more expensive per AXE bullet than the imported ELD-X bullets

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I'll take your word on that, still I don't think I'd go against Woodleigh's advice. I've not been to their website in quite awhile, but as I recall they listed recommended velocities and I'd be inclined to follow that myself.

@PHOENIX PHIL
The velocity Geoff recommends are impact velocities not muzzle velocities and that's from Geoff himself from a phone call. Even when I drive them 200+ fps faster at the muzzle by the time they hit game they were at or just above max impact velocity. Retained weight of the only bullet I recovered was 74% or 174gn. All other bullets left an exit hole even on a quartering away shot on a black wildebeest. Dead animals told me they did the job required.
Bob

 

[IvW]

At this stage I am working towards getting a functional accurate load for the SAKO .300WM. As it is custom to many discussions about what the best bullet is to use for hunting /gong shooting there will always be a lot of opinions.

I am of the view that there is not one bullet manufacturing company that is manufacturing poor quality bullets in today`s advance technological environment.

It is thus up to the hunter/shooter to acquire the relevant knowledge about the properties of the bullet product /the insight to apply this knowledge to have good results in using the specific bullet for the intended purposes.

There are many hunters/shooters that used the ELD-X 178gn bullet to hunt and experienced great results . It is therefore making sense in taking in account the experience of these hunters/shooters when buying the ELD-X bullets for hunting since they themselves used this product.

Then there is the theoretical opinion of hunters/shooters about this specific type of bullet that have not used the ELD-X 178gn in their .300WM rifles.

Then complete your own experiments and report back instead of asking opinions.....it is not the right bullet for the application irrespective of cost....

 

[IvW]

Cost of premium bullets should not even be considered in terms of cost of hunting total expense ....it is the single thing that kills the animal.....or not....