Thanks for the very interesting thread, ar corey. Good luck with your moose!
Hope you keep your Stevens 200. Tiny groups give me confidence, also. (They make me believe I cannot miss, so I won't let myself).

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Hope you keep your Stevens 200.

Yes, for many, many years.

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Tiny groups give me confidence, also.

Nice to know the bullet is going wherever the crosshairs are.

Dropped a whitetail this morning and just finished deboning. Need to grind it up quickly, dump it in the freezer then head north tonight for moose. Glad I stuck around another day and filled my deer tag. Better to have a deer in the freezer than a moose in the field!

Really like the 7mm Rem. Mag. with the Barnes TSX. Shot was about 175-200 yards at full power and dropped the deer instantly through both lungs. Cleaning up showed a lethal hole with no explosion. Will never use another lead bullet again.

Suspect the TSX will deliver the same results on a bull moose.

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Dropped a whitetail this morning .... then head north tonight for moose.

Good one! Good luck with the moose hunt.

I have a feeling that the factory crimp die ( which is kind of a collet crimp) may occasionally help accuracy but I think it may straighten out a runout problem. At least I can see where it might. I have used it on my .375 H^&H and on .30-30 for a lever gun. It is a pretty good product, I have been thinking about having them make me one for the .416 Rigby. They will custom make one if I send them a dummy cartridge.

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I have a feeling that the factory crimp die .... may straighten out a runout problem.

I wondered about that. I also wonder whether the crimp itself helps guide the bullet into the rifling. The crimp doesn't 'blow out' on firing. (Not on fired cases I have seen, anyway). That may explain why crimping only helps with some rifles - throats vary and only some need that 'guide'. Just wondering.