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I’ve only shot the 338wm and it was the rifle I grabbed when hunting camels. With a 225accubond it was lethal. A bull camel is a big animal and it wasn’t until I shot my first one that I realised just how big. The crushing plate on their chest would certainly run a mischief on you and...

I have just zero locked the scopes on a couple of rifles which means I’ve stopped playing with them for the time being and the load development and experimenting is done. It also means they are essentially field ready. The 338wm has been firing 225grain accubonds very well, but they are...

I think I would be varget, h4350, h1000 and retumbo would see me get by pretty comfortably. Like someone else said, the availability of alliant powders and their price is here is more than eye watering. At present we really don’t have a lot of choice outside of ADI powders, fortunately they make...

Guy do you know why that bullet was discontinued? Seems like a lot of trouble to make a bullet with all the set up and then drop it from your line up. Can’t imagine there was anything wrong with them.

I never really saw myself being a 7mm08 kinda guy. I had a ruger Hawkeye in 243 that I wasn’t using and the trade wasn’t worth much so I had it rebarrelled. I have found it to be such a handy cartridge and somewhat of a jack of all trades. Not excelling at any one thing but great at most. It is...

I have a speer manual as well and the loads for the 145 SPBT are really starting to get up into 280 territory. Its a reasonably old book so I have always wondered about pressures.

I christened mine on a red stag across a gully with those ftx bullets. I have mine in a marlin and that is a great little rifle to shoot. Doesn’t seem to matter what ammo it shoots. I have a bunch of 160ftx to load and really wish I could lever revolution or super performance powders here.

I think if I was using 150 grain class bullets I would run H4350 for a try. On lighter bullets I’m not sure it is fast enough with what little room you have to play with re 130 grain bullets. I am interested how it goes though, I have a number of cartridges that love H4350.

That is an an absolute ground pounder. It’s times like these when a chrono can do your head in too. I bet if I told you that group was running 2,700fps and that’s all the info you had, you’d be pretty happy.

I use the 139sst’s in my 708 and they shoot and hunt great. Reckon I am about 20 fps faster using varget, but no supply issues here getting it. In the past 12 months that combo has taken red deer, fallow deer, pigs, dogs and a hare. I have grown really fond of that little rifle. (Mine also loves...

Not legal here in Australia either, mostly because we have fairly strict bio tracking laws around meat etc for the prevention of disease being spread. Can’t sell fish either unless you’re a licensed, professional fisherman.

7mm08 and 120nbt is such an underrated combo. Good shooting

My son shot a nice red deer doe with the 6.5x55 with a 129sst a couple of weeks back. We needed a meat for the freezer and this mature deer was perfect. The shot was angling up and the bullet placement was a little high, perfect if on flat ground but the angle meant ideally he should have shot...

Great thing about that load is you can swap out the nbt for the accubond should you need a little more penetration.

The FTX in the 3030 is indeed a good thing. It is my go to in that cartridge, but I have to say the performance of that bullet above gets a man thinking. Unless you’re eating up to the bullet hole, I think you’re pretty fine and less of an issue with bullets that retain their weight.

It (280ai) is probably my favourite cartridge of the many I own...but I have to whisper it so the others don't hear ;)

I read this and found it to answer a lot of the questions. Hope it helps. https://www.outdoorlife.com/guns/federal-7mm-backcountry-review/

Assuming that brass does become an obsolete case material, the sale of muzzle brakes will go through the roof. More velocity means more recoil…or all of a sudden the 260rem starts performing like a 6.5PRC and how we think about cartridges changes too. I suspect the race for the fastest and...

It will take a lot to dethrone the media around the 7mmPRC. 7mm cartridges are pretty common now with just about every scenario covered. Hard to see it taking off and sticking.

If you can’t get it done with a 125grain partition or 130 accubond, you need something bigger than a 6.5 imho. Not too many things go far with a well placed bullet of either of those above at sensible distances.