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Am trying to make sure I have alternatives for rifles on an August Tanzania trip. The loads for two rifles are about set. .474 caliber 500 grain Woodleighs at 2150 fps, and .416 Caliber 350 gr Barnes X at 2687 fps. Want to set up a .375 H&H just in case one of the other rifles screws up before I actually leave. Have an excellend load for the 270 gr Barnes X, but that may be a slightly light slug for the .375. Could develop loads for the 300 gr Barnes X, the 300 gr TSX, or the 300 gr Northfork soft (if I can get them). Recommendations? Mike -------------- DRSS, Womper's Club, NRA Life Member/Charter Member NRA Golden Eagles ... Knifemaker, http://www.mstarling.com | ||
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I think you will be fine with the 270 grain barnes you have now. It is not ideal but since you plan on using this as a light rifle, you should do OK. I would recomend something other than Woodleigh bullets for the 470. Woodleigh makes a great bullet...but since I used the NF Cup point in my 470...woodleighs will be used for thin skin game. Cup points work great. ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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Mike, I shot a buffalo last Sept with the 270gr Barnes TS and it worked well. I would use it again for buff. | |||
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Mike, I shot a X bullet on a buf from a 458 Lott and I would not hesitate to use the 270X also...It is a slightly mushrooming solid copper bullet....It will be destructive on a shoulder shot and will penetrate the brain, and smash bone also.. Can't ask for more then that... Mike | |||
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If you like heavy bullets, Rhino makes 350 and 380 grainers for the .375. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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Mauritz Coetzee has a collection of retrieved 380 gr Rhino bullets from various hunters that they brought back after their buffalo hunts, and all rave about the effectiveness of the bullet. Most will never return to any other bullet for buffalo hunting, as it makes a huge wound channel through the vitals - much bigger than the FN Solid bullet. The 380-gr Rhino bullet expands up to 27 millimeters in diameter. Chris | |||
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I have some of the 350 grain Rhinos in .375 but have not yet found a load that gets much velocity. Anybody have any suggestions with VihtaVuori powders that might get me up to 2300fps? Is that velocity possible with this bullet? _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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I have used Barnes X (300 gr.) with good results, but if you push them very fast, sometimes it breaks the petals of the bullet, and they work like light solids, it happened to me once. So, I think it is safer to take soft loads for this type of bullets (MV 2.400 ft/s). I have used too swift A frame bullets (300 gr) with very good reults (perfect mushrooming, good penetration) even at 2.550 ft/s. Ignacio Colomer | |||
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