As I promised here are the picture of a 9,3 bullet in 286 grains that I shot from my 9,3x62 killing two pigs with it

The first one from the left is the 9,3 bullet then it comes a Nosler Partition in 200 grains in 8 mm I used to kill a zebra and the third bullet is also an 8mm NP in 200 grains which I used to broke the neck of a very nice namibian kudu.

I have use the PMP also for kudus and other african animals with great success.

L

Ok i have an alternative story on pmp standards.. these 9.3s look fine, but i shot a duiker march this year with a .243

and the bullet Soft point failed on the near shoulder. If fact it seperated so that the jacket penetrated, but the weightier lead impacted the ground on the near side of the animal.

PH and tracker all thought i missed. The shot was dead on the point of the shoulder were i put it. My next one was through his head cos both my tracker and ph were convinced i had missed and i was taking no more chances.

you pay for what you get. i would shoot pmp again, but maybe in the larger calibers. they are pretty ok for the price.

cheers, tm

The PH I hunted with in South Africa (Jan Dumon) does not have a lot of good to say about PMP bullets: old technology, inconsistant performance, etc. Right now Barnes bullets are almost universally acknowleged as good in RSA with their own Rhino bullets also getting good reviews. But I'm told they almost all like Partitions, A-Frames, Barnes, Trophy Bondeds, better than PMP.

The only thing I know is that there are two types, a standard one and a "premium" one.

Also performance will depend on velocities. I believe that given the chance of the quality and the diverse brands of bullets you have there in the US, you don't have to worry much about it.

But hey, that 9,3 bullet went through two pigs!!
It spined the first one and entered the second one in diagonal from back to front breaking the other side shoulder.

L

The two on the right look an awful lot like Nosler Partitions after a deep penetrating shot. I recovered several Partitions on my recent Zim hunt and they all shed their lead cores but continued to penetrate with the shank.

Yes they are partitions. I don't worry much if they loose the lead, if they kill, they are ok for me

I'm starting to believe by my own and modest experience, that a big bullet going slow is better, it will make bigger holes and this will kill animals faster, also will provide you a good blood trail to follow up. Small bullets going too fast are tricky, but I don't have much experience with them to say one is better than the other.

The bad thing, for me at least, about the big slow bullets, is that I don't feel so confident in longer shots, but maybe that is bacause I must practice more. I missed a couple of long shots and maybe that is from where my confidence problem comes from.

But once you hit them they are dead!!! That's sure

L

How can you go wrong with a price of $19.00 for 20 rounds of 375 h&h?

Plink away.

pmp ammo

Can not go wrong, How is the brass to reload?
06 & 375 H&H.

Trapmonkey. When did this problem occur? I used/use 243 100gr PMP standards since 1994, usually on Springbok, Mtn Reebuck and Blesbuck, never had any penetration problems. Only recovered a few bullets as most passed straight through.

Do you remember the lot nr?

RM

PMP brass is very hard and thick with about 5% less volume than better worldwide brands.

Plinking with PMP is just fine, shooting anything with PMP with velocities around 2400 fps and lower that is also fine. But that is about it.

I have used PMP in .223 and in .308 to take quite a number of plains game and have not had any issues with performance.

Saying that though, i would only use premium bullets for dangerous game if im ever lucky enough to be able to go on a DG hunt.

Lorenzo, I've got a recovered PMP 9,3 bullet that looks almost the same as yours. Mine was recovered from a Blue wildebeest