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7mm-08 Bullet Choice for Stone Sheep inside of 500 yards
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<blockquote data-quote="Brad Quarnberg" data-source="post: 2868050" data-attributes="member: 107866"><p>I tend to go to the heavier bullets in general. While living in Germany a few years ago, I hunted with mostly hornady superformance SST's in 165gr with amazing results (I shot 26 animals during my 2 years as a licensed (German) hunter. I shot a Mouflon (similar in size to stone sheep) in Slovenia at 382 meters with my 308 and the ram rolled down the hill, DRT. Shot a Silver Medal Red Stag, also in Slovenia using the same ammo at 200 meters and recovered a nicely mushroomed bullet on the off shoulder just under the skin. The superformance/SST's put everything down very quickly, even wild board.</p><p>Now that I'm back in the states and not limited to factory ammo, I usually load with accubond and accubond long range bullets, but they are way more expensive and harder to find (at least for me, so I'm slowly moving to ELDX and I just bought some speer impact to try in 30 Cal. I have a supply of SST and depending on the caliber and if the gun likes them (like my 308) I load those.</p><p>Although not thick skinned, rams are tough and hardy so a premium bullet is better in my opinion, and if your gun will shoot them really accurately, I'd use 150-170 grain bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brad Quarnberg, post: 2868050, member: 107866"] I tend to go to the heavier bullets in general. While living in Germany a few years ago, I hunted with mostly hornady superformance SST's in 165gr with amazing results (I shot 26 animals during my 2 years as a licensed (German) hunter. I shot a Mouflon (similar in size to stone sheep) in Slovenia at 382 meters with my 308 and the ram rolled down the hill, DRT. Shot a Silver Medal Red Stag, also in Slovenia using the same ammo at 200 meters and recovered a nicely mushroomed bullet on the off shoulder just under the skin. The superformance/SST's put everything down very quickly, even wild board. Now that I'm back in the states and not limited to factory ammo, I usually load with accubond and accubond long range bullets, but they are way more expensive and harder to find (at least for me, so I'm slowly moving to ELDX and I just bought some speer impact to try in 30 Cal. I have a supply of SST and depending on the caliber and if the gun likes them (like my 308) I load those. Although not thick skinned, rams are tough and hardy so a premium bullet is better in my opinion, and if your gun will shoot them really accurately, I'd use 150-170 grain bullets. [/QUOTE]
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