Kuduae, thank you again. As I have no handle on German whatsoever, I will defer to you on this one. I will certainly write Durkopp as it would be interesting to see what they come up with .

Daryl, I saw the same data as you and I also saw the later DWM loading with a 129 at much higher velocity. My only hesitation is that the action is a small ring with the front ring cut for a scope base. There is metal at the bottom of the dovetail although I doubt that there is much of it.

I have a feeling that held to around 45k, it should be an adequate deer rifle. As it is, that load is somewhat below what the 250-3000 will do with the same weight bullet. Possibly loaded with one of the 4350s I can get it up to 2600 which would be about right.

Tom