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My son dropped 2 pigs in Tx w/ 90 gr NBTs launched from my 6-250 at a sedate 3k fps from <100 yds. They were both one-shot kills but the first (largest; 190-ish lbs) kicked enough to necessitate an insurance shot. The initial 2 shots on each were pass-throughs (an amazing feat for these little...

Dang Scotty you're giving me an itch here! This thing has some pretty serious cool factor... just enough extra space over 7RM for 7mm Weatherby numbers w/o all the extra pressure. You guys are jackin me up; every time I figure I've finished my last build you call to my attention something 'new'!

Yep and in addition to taper don't forget the other thing those parent cartridges that benefit most from Improving have in common; relatively low SAAMI-approved operating pressures. 250-3000, 257 Rob, 280 Rem, and 300 H&H all have rather low max pressures mostly (280 is a mystery as to why)...

Yeah thanks sorry my bad I 'misremembered' :twisted: .

.280 AI & 7mm WSM have roughly equal powder capacity, so they'll perform similarly at similar pressures. This is why they cannot be the equal of the 7 RM. That having been said I love the uniqueness of my 257 AI (though I'd be afraid if I were getting 3400-ish w/ 110s; it should not perform...

Wow Scotty lookin good man; 160s @ 3200 is whisked for any big game on this continent! Use up those 90 rounds in <20 yrs and that'll amount to a couple decades living high on the hog meat-wise!

The load that did yeoman's work with whitetails for me when I first started loading was: RP cases 150 cup-n-core 52 gr RL15 CCI-200 Now I've been waiting to knock something over with: RP cases 130 TSX 56.5 gr RL15 Cci-200 and on my pronghorn for hunt this fall I'll likely run: RP cases 150...

7-08 or 30-06 280 AI is ok ;)

Have you fired it at least a hundred times? If so I'd say it was broken in ;) ! In all seriousness, I have a couple foulers & am installing Ultra Bore Coat this winter. It's a polymer coating that is supposed to help quite a lot, allowing many shots before copper becomes an issue. I'll report...

No doubt!! I hunted 7 in '10, and took my son to 26 in '14, but am saving PPs for a red desert hunt. This year a hunting pard & I are buying as many doe tags as we can and taking a long weekend to run out, fill as many as we can in a few days of hunting, and come home w/ a car full of meat...

Awesome!! We get whitetails & turkeys in the windows behind the preacher, and they run by the windows of my (5th & 6th grade) Sunday Scool classroom rather regularly. My teaching pard likes to say, "there isn't anything like General revelation to get in the way of teaching kids about special!"...

62 gr Ramshot Hunter, Win brass, 168 gr NBT, WLRM-M primer, 2875 FPS, 23.6" tube

Awesome buck indeed; thanks for sharing. That's a trophy I'm gonna have to chase sometime soon. Yer neighbor obviously knows what he's doing!

Remchester it is; I've had great luck with it. Not as good as Nosler, Norma, or Lapua, but just as good as the big two, cheaper & more available especially when couples with Graf & Sons shipping!

I've got 64 BSBs & 55 gr GMXs to test out when weather improves; this is encouraging! Great test thanks for posing it!

Yeah Remington wasn't happy just letting the QC on their 700s go to heck they had to take Marlin down too. A real shame that's for certain!! Buds still has em $325-ish tho?

I butchered the thing myself but didn't get much look at wound channel since most was in noggin. I did see where it exited the back of the head and entered guts and there was a ton of blood inside chest cavity but the channel mostly dropped out w/ guts. I'd actually thought the bullet went with...

My 10 yo Elijah & I just got back from an incredible road trip to Texas for feral pigs. I was returning to Winchester Ridge in Mountain Home just up the eway from Kerrville but it was Elijah's first trip. The ranch is owned by my friend Joe Nagy who is an extraordinarily gracious host. If you're...

My son & I did some Texas hog hunting, and I was able to put em to excellent use (besides the great food!!) by running a 90 gr GMX through one length-wise. Velocity at muzzle was 3350 fps from my 257 AI, and it impacted the smallish (120 lbs?) pig's skull at approx 100 yds or likely 3000-ish...

Ha! Wow didn't realize how one could read the post that way :) ! Was thinking like a rifle loonie; same woman gets rifle upgrade as relationship progresses but you took it to a whole different level ;) ! Touché!