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<blockquote data-quote="RevJim" data-source="post: 1444419" data-attributes="member: 86754"><p>I used the 35 Whelen Ackley Improved with the Barnes 250X (2550fps) in '96 on Zebra/Red Hartebeest/kudu/Blue Wildbeest and again 2002 with the 200X (2970fps, the one with secant ogive) for my longest shot in South Africa. Black wildebeest at 347yds and then a mare zebra at 250yds. While I used the 300WM/338WM/340W/.375 H&H on a couple more hunts, I couldn't see any advantage over my old Whelen for 99% of the shots I took. Again, I only used Barnes or Failsafes, so penetration was no issue, but they had nice shapes too. The 300WM, 180xbt/338, 200X/340W, 210xbt was easier to hit gemsbuk & springbuk at 375yds in Namibia, but we could have gotten much closer; I was hunting with some "biltong hunters" who were used to roaring around the Kalahari in their little Toyota p/us and running the game off. They would eventually get winded and stop, but way out there. Hey..."when in rome". It would have been so easy to just "ease up on them over the big dunes because they were in the shade just on the other side of them...but No! Hardhead Afrikaners, ha.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RevJim, post: 1444419, member: 86754"] I used the 35 Whelen Ackley Improved with the Barnes 250X (2550fps) in '96 on Zebra/Red Hartebeest/kudu/Blue Wildbeest and again 2002 with the 200X (2970fps, the one with secant ogive) for my longest shot in South Africa. Black wildebeest at 347yds and then a mare zebra at 250yds. While I used the 300WM/338WM/340W/.375 H&H on a couple more hunts, I couldn't see any advantage over my old Whelen for 99% of the shots I took. Again, I only used Barnes or Failsafes, so penetration was no issue, but they had nice shapes too. The 300WM, 180xbt/338, 200X/340W, 210xbt was easier to hit gemsbuk & springbuk at 375yds in Namibia, but we could have gotten much closer; I was hunting with some "biltong hunters" who were used to roaring around the Kalahari in their little Toyota p/us and running the game off. They would eventually get winded and stop, but way out there. Hey..."when in rome". It would have been so easy to just "ease up on them over the big dunes because they were in the shade just on the other side of them...but No! Hardhead Afrikaners, ha. [/QUOTE]
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