I’ve harvested 4 mule deer and 2 whitetail bucks with my Kimber m84 (less than 6 pound rifle and a joy to carry) in 7-08. 130 grain Speer boat tail over Varget at about 2700 fps. The cartridge is “minute of deer” out to about 370 yds. Not one of these deer took a step out of their tracks at...
I experienced this with Remington brass in my 7mm-08, particularly with factory Remington loads I had, and was using to fire form. Interesting in that I did not see this with Winchester brass to the same degree. The issue all but disappeared in the win brass when I switched over to Lee Collet...