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<blockquote data-quote="IdahoCTD" data-source="post: 1215043" data-attributes="member: 13110"><p>I've built and shot a ton of 300 Weatherby/8mm/375 H&H/300 H&H Imp calibers. We use to use them for shooting rockchucks. I still have a 308 Baer, which is a 35* shoulder version, and I have 2 standard 30-8mm's but I've also built some 30-358STA's which Jarrett latter coined the 300 Jarrett. Honestly I like the standard 30-8mm the best just because you don't have to form brass. By improving them you only gain about 3.0 to 3.5grs of capacity worth about 30fps max. The lack of case stretch is nice with the sharper shoulders though.</p><p></p><p>I use to shoot a lot of R-22 through mine. 85grs of R-22 with a 150 Nosler BT use to scoot along at 3550-3650fps depending on the case and the barrel length. 89grs of R-25 with the same bullet is about the same velocity. 76grs of R-22 with a 210 Matrix runs 3100fps in my standard 30-8mm with a 27" barrel. That gun has shot a couple sub 1" groups at 550yds and has killed a few elk. I stopped shooting it, as I do with most guns after a few years when a new one gets built, but I wouldn't recommend the 210 Matrix for game. The performance is erratic. A buddy shot a bull with a 300wm using them and had one blow up in the liver. The second shot pencil holed through the lungs. I shot 2 elk with them and both pencil holed through the lungs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IdahoCTD, post: 1215043, member: 13110"] I've built and shot a ton of 300 Weatherby/8mm/375 H&H/300 H&H Imp calibers. We use to use them for shooting rockchucks. I still have a 308 Baer, which is a 35* shoulder version, and I have 2 standard 30-8mm's but I've also built some 30-358STA's which Jarrett latter coined the 300 Jarrett. Honestly I like the standard 30-8mm the best just because you don't have to form brass. By improving them you only gain about 3.0 to 3.5grs of capacity worth about 30fps max. The lack of case stretch is nice with the sharper shoulders though. I use to shoot a lot of R-22 through mine. 85grs of R-22 with a 150 Nosler BT use to scoot along at 3550-3650fps depending on the case and the barrel length. 89grs of R-25 with the same bullet is about the same velocity. 76grs of R-22 with a 210 Matrix runs 3100fps in my standard 30-8mm with a 27" barrel. That gun has shot a couple sub 1" groups at 550yds and has killed a few elk. I stopped shooting it, as I do with most guns after a few years when a new one gets built, but I wouldn't recommend the 210 Matrix for game. The performance is erratic. A buddy shot a bull with a 300wm using them and had one blow up in the liver. The second shot pencil holed through the lungs. I shot 2 elk with them and both pencil holed through the lungs. [/QUOTE]
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