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Alaskan Dall Sheep - 210 Berger VLD
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<blockquote data-quote="Mountain Hunter" data-source="post: 556919" data-attributes="member: 37817"><p>I have enjoyed this thread and congratulation on an awesome trophy and hunt. I just joined a few days ago. This thread interest me a lot as I have a 300 mag and am considering a build or purchase of an all weather .300 WM as a "carry-into-the-mountains" hunting rifle and would love to hunt sheep one day. On top of this I have been seriously considering the Berger 185 gr hunting VLD bullet. I have so far been using Hornady SSTs and SPBT (180 grs) but thought the step up to the VLDs (with its higher BC) would give flatter trajectory and higher RE out at 400-500 yards.</p><p></p><p>However, I am an ethical hunter and do not like the experiences with the VLDs that have been related here. I notice on another thread on this forum (see <a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/hornady-max-bullets-any-good-hunting-76455/" target="_blank">http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/hornady-max-bullets-any-good-hunting-76455/</a>) that there are generally positive reports that the A-Max performs well as a hunting bullet. </p><p></p><p>So I am now considering instead: </p><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the 178 gr A-Max, my ballistics software tells me that this bullet is not far behind the 185 VLD in performance out to 500 yds (but a 300 WM should have performance to spare on this type of game)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the 208 gr A-Max, performance on paper is equal (or slightly better) in most respects to the 210 gr VLD to 500 yds and beyond</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mountain Hunter, post: 556919, member: 37817"] I have enjoyed this thread and congratulation on an awesome trophy and hunt. I just joined a few days ago. This thread interest me a lot as I have a 300 mag and am considering a build or purchase of an all weather .300 WM as a "carry-into-the-mountains" hunting rifle and would love to hunt sheep one day. On top of this I have been seriously considering the Berger 185 gr hunting VLD bullet. I have so far been using Hornady SSTs and SPBT (180 grs) but thought the step up to the VLDs (with its higher BC) would give flatter trajectory and higher RE out at 400-500 yards. However, I am an ethical hunter and do not like the experiences with the VLDs that have been related here. I notice on another thread on this forum (see [URL]http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/hornady-max-bullets-any-good-hunting-76455/[/URL]) that there are generally positive reports that the A-Max performs well as a hunting bullet. So I am now considering instead: [LIST] [*]the 178 gr A-Max, my ballistics software tells me that this bullet is not far behind the 185 VLD in performance out to 500 yds (but a 300 WM should have performance to spare on this type of game) [*]the 208 gr A-Max, performance on paper is equal (or slightly better) in most respects to the 210 gr VLD to 500 yds and beyond [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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