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<blockquote data-quote="baydog" data-source="post: 1274205" data-attributes="member: 76072"><p>Thanks RT2506...I've always shot the nosler balistic tips in almost everything i've owned until this year. I have 4 rifles I'm loading for now, 7mm mag Sendero -300rum Sendero-.243 model 7- and now this .257 weatherby 700CDL. Yep all Remingtons.. The 7 mm mag seeems to like the 140gr balistic tips with the IMR 4350 powder very accurate out to 300 yard, I mean this gun is a meat magnet good gun..the 243 seems to be ok with the 90gr balistic tips after 200 yards starts to drop like a rock using the IMR 4350 but the 300rum it took me 3 years to find a better rescipe that the gun would shoot consistent and that is with the H1000 powder and the 200gr Accubond. I tried the ballistic tips in diffrent grain weights and the first change that made a noticeable diffrence was going to the H1000 powder but what tigthen the group up seems like the most is the 200gr Accubonds. I shot this 300rum for 2 years without much confidence but now If I feel that when I'm deer hunting if i can see the deer I got a chance. Yes the H1000 helped but I think the Accubonds are a better flying bullet and will be trying them in everything i hunt with. I like the way they fly and the way they stay together and flatten out upon impact. They stay in one piece and seems to always be a bang flop shot because of the path it makes through the deer...The ballistic tip seem to break up SOMETImES upon impact but I think thats what they're supposed to do. The Accubond has my vote for this 257 wby...Thanks for your help</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baydog, post: 1274205, member: 76072"] Thanks RT2506...I've always shot the nosler balistic tips in almost everything i've owned until this year. I have 4 rifles I'm loading for now, 7mm mag Sendero -300rum Sendero-.243 model 7- and now this .257 weatherby 700CDL. Yep all Remingtons.. The 7 mm mag seeems to like the 140gr balistic tips with the IMR 4350 powder very accurate out to 300 yard, I mean this gun is a meat magnet good gun..the 243 seems to be ok with the 90gr balistic tips after 200 yards starts to drop like a rock using the IMR 4350 but the 300rum it took me 3 years to find a better rescipe that the gun would shoot consistent and that is with the H1000 powder and the 200gr Accubond. I tried the ballistic tips in diffrent grain weights and the first change that made a noticeable diffrence was going to the H1000 powder but what tigthen the group up seems like the most is the 200gr Accubonds. I shot this 300rum for 2 years without much confidence but now If I feel that when I'm deer hunting if i can see the deer I got a chance. Yes the H1000 helped but I think the Accubonds are a better flying bullet and will be trying them in everything i hunt with. I like the way they fly and the way they stay together and flatten out upon impact. They stay in one piece and seems to always be a bang flop shot because of the path it makes through the deer...The ballistic tip seem to break up SOMETImES upon impact but I think thats what they're supposed to do. The Accubond has my vote for this 257 wby...Thanks for your help [/QUOTE]
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