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    6.5 CM 130gr bullet test, Part 2 - 129gr Hornady SST

    It’s a reasonably tough little bullet in our experience, at least at the velocities generated in a 6.5x55. It has punched through shoulder blades, ribs and spines on red deer. They do expand quite violently. I think this bullet is much like a ballistic tip in that the first iteration might have...
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    2025 Hunting Season

    It has been a good year. There has been good food in the paddocks for the animals and little hunting pressure on the properties we go to. Offshore has also been good with quite a few wahoo and mahi mahi this season too. I will hunt again soon in the coming weeks. Majority of game taken with...
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    2025 Hunting Season

    Here's some we left to carry the genes through the herd.
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    2025 Hunting Season

    Here's some from the year so far. We typically hunt for meat, not trophies.
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    Bullet Anatomy

    92 grains of Retumbo gets it out the barrel of my Rum at 3,132fps with an SD of 7.9. That's out of a 26 inch barrel. It is an incredibly accurate load but probably in a cartridge I would never buy again. I have enjoyed playing with it though.
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    Bullet Anatomy

    I agree, the profile on that accubond combined with the bonding make it an absolute killer out of the 300wm and up. It goes very well out of my 300RUM.
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    Bullet Anatomy

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    Bullet Anatomy

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    Bullet Anatomy

    Thought I would put up a couple of pics of some bullet cross sections for you all. The first picture is a 30 cal 200 grain accubond and a 30 cal 165 sierra tipped gameking. I was very impressed with the jacket thickness of the TGK but would want some velocity to make it work I suspect. The...
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    Will there be an RDF in 25 for the 25 creedmoor?

    It’s a good looking little cartridge that. Think it is my favourite of all the Creedmores. That 128eldx would also make a fine goat and fallow deer bullet.
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    Another one to play with

    Great shooting. What a top little scrub gun
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    Rifles that Need to be Hunted (or loads developed for) in 2025

    So far my boys and and I have shot pigs, wild dogs, red deer and fallow with a 223, 6.5x55, 7mm08 and 7mmRM, 308. Rifles that should get a run but for one reason or another haven’t, 260, 280ai and the 30/30 in the tighter bush.
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    Let me see a show of hands of the Trap Shooters on our forum.

    Sporting clays at my end. Closest thing to field shooting I can get.
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    Completed transition from Alliant to Hodgdon...

    I share your pain. I used to use RL19 & 22 but you can’t get that anymore. RL26 I never got the chance to play with. It is H or AR powders as we know them here or nothing. Crazy times that still haven’t improved. At least we can buy primers now
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    7 PRC Loads

    As Shrek would say, that’ll do donkey, that’ll do. Great shooting and that is a load that will put meat on the table every day of the week. The only problem is now when you miss, you can’t blame the rifle 😉
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