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<blockquote data-quote="Murtfree" data-source="post: 2233086" data-attributes="member: 111090"><p>I am extremely happy with the accuracy I got from these loads and never expected it to shoot this well. I bought 2 of these Kimbers as rifles for upcoming sheep, grizzly, caribou and goat hunts and weigh in at around 6lbs 3 oz with scope. With their spaghetti thin barrels I was extremely happy with .6 inch groups especially with velocity around the 3100FPS; this was better than I ever had hoped for. The groups and velocity actually surpass my 9lb 7MM Rem Mag that I used to tote around in the mountains. These groups with RE23 really blew my mind in the accuracy department and I won't say I won't use these loads when it comes time for the actual hunt. I have some Rem 40x's that won't shoot this well. I will certainly do a little more testing when we get cooler weather and may also try the 150 LR Accubond/Re23 as they did fairly well with RE26 as well. The single shot with the 143 Hammer registered at 3201FPS on my Oehler but I had to almost hammer the bolt open; it was 90 degrees out so not exactly great load development weather. I didn't do much seating depth work with the Hammers; just set them deep enough as not to get marks from the lands on the olive; had to set them fairly deep for my rifles throat</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murtfree, post: 2233086, member: 111090"] I am extremely happy with the accuracy I got from these loads and never expected it to shoot this well. I bought 2 of these Kimbers as rifles for upcoming sheep, grizzly, caribou and goat hunts and weigh in at around 6lbs 3 oz with scope. With their spaghetti thin barrels I was extremely happy with .6 inch groups especially with velocity around the 3100FPS; this was better than I ever had hoped for. The groups and velocity actually surpass my 9lb 7MM Rem Mag that I used to tote around in the mountains. These groups with RE23 really blew my mind in the accuracy department and I won’t say I won’t use these loads when it comes time for the actual hunt. I have some Rem 40x’s that won’t shoot this well. I will certainly do a little more testing when we get cooler weather and may also try the 150 LR Accubond/Re23 as they did fairly well with RE26 as well. The single shot with the 143 Hammer registered at 3201FPS on my Oehler but I had to almost hammer the bolt open; it was 90 degrees out so not exactly great load development weather. I didn’t do much seating depth work with the Hammers; just set them deep enough as not to get marks from the lands on the olive; had to set them fairly deep for my rifles throat [/QUOTE]
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