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Berger 115 VLD Match bullet and Antelope
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<blockquote data-quote="BillR" data-source="post: 331963" data-attributes="member: 462"><p>No worry about Jacking my thread. If it has something to do with the .25-06 AI I do not care. I've shot the .25-06 for close to 40 years and always thought it was the perfect combination of knock down and recoil when it came to a deer/antelope rifle. Very drivable. Then I had a .25-06 AI built with a tight neck chamber and Hart barrel and gained a whole new respect for a cartridge. Biggest problem I have had so far Antelope hunting with it wasn't the cartridge. It was with the optics. I had been shooting my .308 with all summer and had my Leupold MK4 6.5X20X50 TM reticule on it and had put my 6.5X20X40 LR Varmint Reticule Leupold on the .25-06 AI No turrets to dial. I was good out to 550 with it but when presented with my only shot yesterday at 700 I had to do a bit of guessing. It worked. I hit an Antelope at that range plus or minus a few yards as the Lica would not give me an exact distance and was lasering whatever I could find close. Must of been off by a few yds as I took it high just under the spine. She didn't go down but just walked away slow. Spent 5 hrs and 8 miles trying to get close enough to finish her off. She would go out about 1500 yds and lay down. I would just get about to where I could put another one into her and off she would go again but never faster than a walk but faster than I could go and faster than I could get ready. All my shooting is prone using a Harris Bi Pod. Really made me feel bad as I really thought I could do it or I would of never tried. Finally she got over on some property that I cannot hunt on. One of those "DO NOT EVEN ASK" places. So I had to back off and watch for a while and like before she just sat there watching me. So I learned a new lesson.</p><p>Anyway before this I had some time and had been able to run a couple rounds over the Chronograph and was getting just under 3200 FPS on the load and I ran that through the Serria 16 program and the drop at 700 should be about 87"s by the program. I must of been off by about 3"s and hit higher than I anticipated and lost the animal. Not going to happen again as the MK 4 goes back on the .25-06 AI and no more guessing. I am a bit concerned about the bullet opening up at that range but if it penciled in between a couple ribs and didn't open up and was a bit high its possible I got little expansion. Gotta quit the second guessing as I do not know.</p><p>So now I'm looking at a bit faster load to improve the expansion and hopefully get better performance. I also think that the BC's might be a bit low because man that bullet shoots flat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillR, post: 331963, member: 462"] No worry about Jacking my thread. If it has something to do with the .25-06 AI I do not care. I've shot the .25-06 for close to 40 years and always thought it was the perfect combination of knock down and recoil when it came to a deer/antelope rifle. Very drivable. Then I had a .25-06 AI built with a tight neck chamber and Hart barrel and gained a whole new respect for a cartridge. Biggest problem I have had so far Antelope hunting with it wasn't the cartridge. It was with the optics. I had been shooting my .308 with all summer and had my Leupold MK4 6.5X20X50 TM reticule on it and had put my 6.5X20X40 LR Varmint Reticule Leupold on the .25-06 AI No turrets to dial. I was good out to 550 with it but when presented with my only shot yesterday at 700 I had to do a bit of guessing. It worked. I hit an Antelope at that range plus or minus a few yards as the Lica would not give me an exact distance and was lasering whatever I could find close. Must of been off by a few yds as I took it high just under the spine. She didn't go down but just walked away slow. Spent 5 hrs and 8 miles trying to get close enough to finish her off. She would go out about 1500 yds and lay down. I would just get about to where I could put another one into her and off she would go again but never faster than a walk but faster than I could go and faster than I could get ready. All my shooting is prone using a Harris Bi Pod. Really made me feel bad as I really thought I could do it or I would of never tried. Finally she got over on some property that I cannot hunt on. One of those "DO NOT EVEN ASK" places. So I had to back off and watch for a while and like before she just sat there watching me. So I learned a new lesson. Anyway before this I had some time and had been able to run a couple rounds over the Chronograph and was getting just under 3200 FPS on the load and I ran that through the Serria 16 program and the drop at 700 should be about 87"s by the program. I must of been off by about 3"s and hit higher than I anticipated and lost the animal. Not going to happen again as the MK 4 goes back on the .25-06 AI and no more guessing. I am a bit concerned about the bullet opening up at that range but if it penciled in between a couple ribs and didn't open up and was a bit high its possible I got little expansion. Gotta quit the second guessing as I do not know. So now I'm looking at a bit faster load to improve the expansion and hopefully get better performance. I also think that the BC's might be a bit low because man that bullet shoots flat. [/QUOTE]
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