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Posted: 12/10/2009 9:11:38 AM EDT
| Has anyone tried any of these yet? I just got some in .308 and will be trying some loads shortly. |
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I've tried them They shoot well out of my savage 116. My other rifle seem to like it also and it does bring down deer.
When the season is over I plan to work up loads for each of my 30 cal rifles(8 rifles in 308 and 06). I can't tell you my current load right now because I do not have my load notebook handy(at work right now). If memory serves I am using RE15 with a mid range grain weight. I adjust the weight up or down depending how I tune the load to the rifle to get the tightest group. |
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I whacked a deer with the 154gr interlock round nose, 7mm mag, H1000 pushing it. Hands down the most devastating wound I have ever seen on a deer. . The ones I have don't have the best BC, but I rarely hunt past 200 yards. interesting. i know the round nose will smack hard but why did you go with this bullet vs a standard soft point? i am loading Speer mag tip (7mm rem mag) for a similar reasoning behind the rn. it is an older design with lower bc, but it hits hard on deer. how fast are you pushin the 154 rn? did you find any high presure signs? |
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I whacked a deer with the 154gr interlock round nose, 7mm mag, H1000 pushing it. Hands down the most devastating wound I have ever seen on a deer. . The ones I have don't have the best BC, but I rarely hunt past 200 yards. interesting. i know the round nose will smack hard but why did you go with this bullet vs a standard soft point? i am loading Speer mag tip (7mm rem mag) for a similar reasoning behind the rn. it is an older design with lower bc, but it hits hard on deer. how fast are you pushin the 154 rn? did you find any high presure signs? I'll have to get my data book (I want to say its around 2800fps), I went with the round nose to see if it was a more effective deer stopper ( I had loaded some 139 grain Ballistic tips that were fragmenting way too much on deer). Shot placement is always the key particularly with this bullet so as to not damage the meat. No pressure signs, but in my remmy 700 I have loaded some reeeeaallly hot stuff with no pressure signs. |
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I shoot the #3033, BTSP 150gr Interlock .308s in my deer guns. They shoot very accurately and kill a lot of deer. A rib cage hit, seems to produce a large exit hole, almost fist sized, even when not hitting shoulder bones.
I use the 165 SST from Hornady in my .300RUM. So far, just a couple of neck shots, no large exit hole, even when shattering the vertebra. About quarter sized. Those hold 1/4" in my Rem 700. I am thinking of switching to the 150 SSTs, simply because they won't flatten the noses in the magazine, from recoil. A friend shoots the 150 SST in a .30TC and it does a great job. |
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