D.Camilleri
Well-Known Member
This is my first year shooting Bergers, as many I have been skeptical, but this year with the 300 gr hybrid, I have to say I am impressed. First hunt for practice was on antelope and my scope got knocked off from banging around too much on my atv. Results were two antelope hit in the hind end due to the poi shifting 8 inches to the right at 100. Both shots were 300+, not pretty, but neither goat went anywhere. I had to switch guns and took another goat at 600 with my 300 rum with 180 accubond, drt. In the past, I had an antelope buck I shot with my 300 rum with a 180 accubond appear to explode on the skin, the bullet however remained in tact and dropped him. I did recover the bullet and it weighed about 50%. I have had very good luck with the 225 gr accubonds out of my 338 rum at 3300. No bullet failures and mostly drt kills. I got the chance this year to take a bull elk at 550 yards in my favorite canyon and I can honestly say I have never seen a bull go down so fast and hard as the berger did. I literally saw his 4 hooves in the air as the recoil moved me off target. There was very little blood shot and the entrance was just behind the shoulder nicking the shoulder blade. I could see where the bullet left a tract through the bone. The bullet did not exit and I saw no evidence of it when I quartered the bull. My last kill with the Berger was on the last day of deer season, my dad was out visiting and said he wanted some venison, so we headed up the mountain to find a meat buck and I killed a small mulie at 620 yards with a spine shot. It blew up about 6 inches of spine with very little blood shot. I guess I need to make a test media to see how the bullet does at 15 yards for hunting in griz country, because they are all around where I elk hunt. So far, I am impressed. I shot a nice bull elk in the same canyon several years ago at 542 with a 250 grain partition and the hit broke the shoulder, caused a lot of muscle damage and the bullet shed what seemed to be all of its frontal area. The remaining shank, penetrated into the boiler room and killed the elk, no exit. I have also killed a bull in the same canyon at 572 with a 225 accubond and it didn't exit either. I can't blame the accubond for poor performance on that kill because I had a new *** barrel that wouldn't hold moa but the accubond imparted enough damage that the bull couldn't move and I eventually dropped him. I also have some 225 Tipped Tripple shocks loaded up that shoot very well, I just haven't taken any game with them yet. When I first bought my 338 rum, I shot 210 grain Barnes xlc's and they were killin machines until my barel developed a crack in one of the lands and then they wouldn't shoot any more. I finished off a cow elk that my brother made a bad hit on at about 550 and I broke both shoulders and we recovered the bullet in the meat of the off side shoulder when we were cutting it up. 3 out of 4 pedals in tact and perfect mushroom.