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AussieMike
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Woodleigh 250g in 9.3x64
#19351 - 22/09/04 03:09 AM

I am thinking of using Woodleigh 250g SP (rated by woodleigh as up to 2200fps) in my 9.3x64 at 2600fps mainly for ferals but also possibly red deer. Has anyone any experience of using these at this velocity?

mike

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atkinson6
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Re: Woodleigh 250g in 9.3x64 [Re: AussieMike]
#19375 - 23/09/04 07:56 AM

I have used them a bit in the 9.3x62 and 9.3x64, but they are a round nose bullets and that defeats the purpose of a light 9.3x64 bullet IMO..I'd use the 250 gr. Swift or Nosler Bal. tip, unless you cannot get them...

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Safarischorsch
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Re: Woodleigh 250g in 9.3x64 [Re: AussieMike]
#19552 - 30/09/04 08:05 AM

I heared from a woodleigh SP that failed in a 500 Schüler(Jeffery) on buffalo! Woodleigh bullets are not as hard as many people think they are! And the 9,3x64 Brenneke is if hot-loaded too fast for woodleigbullets at least on dangerous game. So i would take partitions or swift A-frame bullets. A very good choice woul be the CDP from RUAG or the TUG for your deer.

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AussieMike
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Re: Woodleigh 250g in 9.3x64 [Re: Safarischorsch]
#19617 - 05/10/04 12:10 PM

I'm loading 286g for the big stuff and have found TUGs a bit hard for our smaller ferals, goats, which make up a lot of my shooting are about the same size as a whitetail deer but their tendency to mob up makes total penetration a problem.

Woodleighs are easy to get here; I get frustrated working up a load for a projectile or powder and then not being able to get it when I next need it and my wife is getting tired of the increasing amount of space my gun stuff takes up, so there is a limit to stockpiling.

BUT, it sounds like I should buy 300 Nosler partitions.

mike

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8x56mn
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Re: Woodleigh 250g in 9.3x64 [Re: AussieMike]
#19620 - 06/10/04 12:15 AM

I just returned from Zim, where I shot everything with my Merkle O/U 9.3x74 using 286 gr. soft Woodlieghs. I took the Cape with one shot double lung, bullet smashed ribs on the far side, the Zebra, broke the front shoulder and peferated the heart and lungs, did not recover the bullet. The only failure I had was the Eland, I hit him behind the shoulder and high with a raking shot. The bullet skipped along the ribs and ended up along side the neck spine and had to be finished with a second shot by the PH after tracking for miles and miles. The Wildebeast, the bullet entered a little far back on a slight quartering shot but angled through the lung on the far side and exited. The wart hog, also quatering away and a long shot entered behind the ear and exited between the eyes. The Impala went down with a shot almost straight on taking out heart and lungs. All in all very pleased with the 9.3 and Woodlieghs. I think if I try for Eland again I will use solids however

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