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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 60898" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>Rem700, </p><p></p><p>Taking advice from others is not a fault on your part my friend and I hope you did not take my post as a flame toward you. These things happen when testing new things.</p><p></p><p>I myself had a similiar experience with a prototype bullet for my 257 Allen Mag, at the time I was testing the bullet in a 257 STW as it was the largest, fastest 257 around at the time. The bullet was a new 130 gr bonded Core prototype bullet.</p><p></p><p>Amazing bullet but against the makers advice I tried it on deer at this 3500 fps velocity. I took a shot on a big whitetail doe at 508 yards and hit her perfectly behind the shoulder. She ran 20 yards and piled up dead.</p><p></p><p>I later discovered that even at +500 yards with a starting muzzle velocity of nearly 3500 fps, this bullet was not stout enough in the jacket to handle the strain and lost alot of bullet weight. I will not say it let loose in any way because there was still a mangled mess of lead and copper. Still it was the wrong bullet for the situation and I was advised of this before hand.</p><p></p><p>In my case I did not listen to good advice even though as far as harvesting the animal I could not have asked for a better result.</p><p></p><p>Still, we now know that even at extreme range, at these velocity levels a stouter bullet will be needed for the 257 Allen Mag and such a bullet has been designed.</p><p></p><p>The nice thing is that if you make a quality shot placement in the chest of a big game, more then likely you will cleanly and quickly harvest the animal no matter what bullet is used.</p><p></p><p>Just build on your data base as far as bullet performance goes and you will be served well by this experience.</p><p></p><p>No flame intended at all, we are all in a learning stage /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif!!</p><p></p><p>Kirby Allen(50)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 60898, member: 10"] Rem700, Taking advice from others is not a fault on your part my friend and I hope you did not take my post as a flame toward you. These things happen when testing new things. I myself had a similiar experience with a prototype bullet for my 257 Allen Mag, at the time I was testing the bullet in a 257 STW as it was the largest, fastest 257 around at the time. The bullet was a new 130 gr bonded Core prototype bullet. Amazing bullet but against the makers advice I tried it on deer at this 3500 fps velocity. I took a shot on a big whitetail doe at 508 yards and hit her perfectly behind the shoulder. She ran 20 yards and piled up dead. I later discovered that even at +500 yards with a starting muzzle velocity of nearly 3500 fps, this bullet was not stout enough in the jacket to handle the strain and lost alot of bullet weight. I will not say it let loose in any way because there was still a mangled mess of lead and copper. Still it was the wrong bullet for the situation and I was advised of this before hand. In my case I did not listen to good advice even though as far as harvesting the animal I could not have asked for a better result. Still, we now know that even at extreme range, at these velocity levels a stouter bullet will be needed for the 257 Allen Mag and such a bullet has been designed. The nice thing is that if you make a quality shot placement in the chest of a big game, more then likely you will cleanly and quickly harvest the animal no matter what bullet is used. Just build on your data base as far as bullet performance goes and you will be served well by this experience. No flame intended at all, we are all in a learning stage [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]!! Kirby Allen(50) [/QUOTE]
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