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Here's a nifty little combination I worked up a few years ago.

I shot from my normal zeroing position from 100 meters sitting, elbows on knees like this:

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e115/Skaapskieter/RangeDay001.jpg

The group on the left is the 220 Hornady Flat Point @ 2440 fps. The group on the right is my old standby; Hornady 300 gr @ 2450. As you can see, they print very close to each other in spite of the differences in bullet weight.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e115/Skaapskieter/RangeDay005-1.jpg

Years ago when I worked the "lite" load up I wanted a load with essentially 9.3x57 performance with a light bullet in the .375, and it works out to be that way just about perfectly, though it took some time to figure it out. Load after load was tested before I came up with this one. With the rifle zeroed with 300 full-power loads, most of the 220 loads flew wide in the ditch.

I've killed lots of game with the 300 gr Hornady, but I've never killed anything with the 220, though I may use it on deer this year. The 220 essentially duplicates the velocity of the 220 grain bullet in the .30-06, but recoil is very light from my SAKO.

I shot some stuff in Africa with the 270 gr Hornady Spire Point bullet, and some deer with the 235 gr Speer, but years ago I settled more or less on the Hornady 300 for all my game shooting which since then has been mostly deer and elk and the occaisional yote. Having said that, it's kind of nice to have a "Lite" option if I should need it or want it. That 220 FP should make a very fine deer load.

I've always prefered Stout over Lite, and still do, but at least in the .375 maybe the watered-down version just might have some utility.

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