Just curious if anyone had used this bullet yet. I picked up a box of the Precision Hunter ammo with it on sale on a whim and my M70 custom 25-06 proceeded to put 5 of them in a half inch group. I'm considering giving it a try on game. I want to get them shot over the chronograph and then if they aren't to slow I may have a turret built for my scope around them. I don't think I'll even mess with finding a load, just shoot the factory stuff in this one with those kind of results.
They should be about the most efficient 25-06 hunting bullet in the wind that always seems to blow around here. I took a couple deer with the 143gr from my 264WM at 3240fps and have some doubts about the toughness of the bullet. I blew one up on the shoulder of a big whitetail buck at 150yds, killed the buck but didn't exit and there were no pieces of the bullet big enough to recover. I took a doe at 321yds with the same bullet and it seemed to perform well and exited. I see that they load this 110gr bullet in 257 Weatherby ammo at 3240fps so they must feel it's tough enough to handle speed.
I see that's only 100fps faster than the 25-06 load. It seems a little slow for a Weatherby but maybe factory ammo is loaded down a bit. That or maybe they were worried about the bullet on close shot if it was pushed faster?
They should be about the most efficient 25-06 hunting bullet in the wind that always seems to blow around here. I took a couple deer with the 143gr from my 264WM at 3240fps and have some doubts about the toughness of the bullet. I blew one up on the shoulder of a big whitetail buck at 150yds, killed the buck but didn't exit and there were no pieces of the bullet big enough to recover. I took a doe at 321yds with the same bullet and it seemed to perform well and exited. I see that they load this 110gr bullet in 257 Weatherby ammo at 3240fps so they must feel it's tough enough to handle speed.
I see that's only 100fps faster than the 25-06 load. It seems a little slow for a Weatherby but maybe factory ammo is loaded down a bit. That or maybe they were worried about the bullet on close shot if it was pushed faster?