Going thru the latest catalog and noticed RWS ammo loaded with a 291gra Rap-X bullet and a 293gr Uni-Torpedo-X Penetrator --- any experience with this ammo.... especially compared to the Norma 285gr Oryx?

Also ran across some unfamiliar bullets --- PRVI 285gr at 100 for $23.99 and the Lapua 285gr at 100 for $42.79 --- any experience with either of these?

Hi Bill - those market based names are getting so bold that those bulets wont go through the bore one day I guess

Nevertheless - 291 gr Rap-x is EVO bullet and it is a ? (for me at least) so far here in EU (not many use them).



Uni - torpedo - x Penetrator is a plain old TUG - I can vouch for that one - excelent penetration, no meat loss...definitely stronger/harder than Oryx



P.S. here is the only one I got so far (I shoot them in 9,3x62 - intend in doing it so in 9,3x74R also). It passed impala lengthwise breaking thigh bone at the entry - it was found in the windpipe.

Thanks Mouse93. All useful information to us newcomers. Packy

PRVi bullets shoot very well in my Tikka 512 O/U. I use them as a practice bullet and would use them for deer, say. I would not take them to Africa.Speer 270's are also inexpensive.
Peter

I've shot a lot of the Speer bullet in a Valmet 412, and found that they do not expand much. It helps to shoot something like a deer in the shoulder.

CDD

DB Bill,

at 2250fps the PRVI 286 will shoot thru a 12" live ponderosa pine. As you said, at $24 per hundred there can't be any bad news for hunting here.

Rich
DRSS

Has anybody shot any game with the PRVIs yet? I'm messing around with the Speers for deer hunting here in the east, but would like to try the PRVI's if they are soft enough.
Thanks
Bfly

I've tried most of the 9.3 bullets on the market, except for the A Frame (which I bought but elected not to shoot in a double rifle) and the new Hornady.

The Woodleigh is as good as you need for heavier game. For deer, pigs, black bear, etc., most of cheaper bullets work fine. I've got to try the new Hornady, as I think it will be a peach. The 270 grain Speer, the old 285 grain RWS RN, and the Hawk RN are all "soft" and have worked well for me. I shoot them in a .400/.360 at 2000 fps, and have had no expansion problems with any of them.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

Norma 285gr Oryx- is rather soft and not always due to uneven expansion true in it´s flight path within the animal.

PRVI 285gr at 100 for $23.99 Varmint style thin cups, ok to train with not othervise.

Lapua 285gr at 100 for $42.79- Perhaps the best non bonded bullet there is, will retain good weight and yield nice expansion as well as penetration.

New on the market is the Hornady 286 grain and Accubond 250 grain, new to me at least, I will try them as well for the fun of it.

/Chris


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