Just sayin',
I use some mentioned plastic-tiped bullets, made by various mfgs. in my 22-250 at near to 4000 fps and have for years. Groups avg. around 1" @ 300 yds. on a good day. Maybe I'm just lucky,
When in NV, I tried to hunt them. The hunting was good, shooting them not so good.
They flew UP the hill, I went UP the hill. They flew DOWN the hill, I went DOWN the hill, they flew UP the hill ... well you get the idea. Great sport though.
A few years back, I got a 2nd hand USRA model 70 from a neighbor. The first 8-10" past the throat looked like a gravel road. He said it wouldn't group. After 2 days of soaking, scrubbing, etc. it came clean. Shoots good now. I like Sweet's 7.62 as a cleaner, YMMV.
Local processing-plants here say the kill is down. First archery/ firearms combined seasons totaled a 1600+ deer take in this county alone. The black-powder/late archery season is yet to end. I went one day during the open rifle season and did not get the shot I wanted ... he's still out there...
Our private club has some steel, small, knock-down silhouette targets that the members can set up for their use. The target backstops are 100-600 yds. The only problem we had was during a hot, dry summer, we had a ground fire that burnt-off over 5 acs. before we got it out. The cause was from...
The .300WM is a very popular and well balanced cartridge. Ammo is fairly easy to find, if you need factory loads, and it will take-on most big-game animals with-out working up a sweat.