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Hello again,

Well after hunting with Andrew McLaren I am now in Ellisras hunting with Chris Troskie. I have taken a nice heavy, older Kudu bull with a single 237 yard shot from my 9.3x62 (So much for Bushveldt shooting distances). I have also taken a lovely 750-800 kg Eland with a single 40 metre running neck shot after much drama which I will include in a full report. A mature Male Warthog shot at 50 metres through both lungs and DRT, has also gone to a better place.

One thing that is happening is that the Woodleigh 286 PPSN projectiles are not expanding at all. I have killed my animals so they have not failed but the five rounds I have fired at ranges of 1x point blank, 2x 40 metres, 1x 50 metres and 1x 237 yards (which I did not expect to expand), have not opened. Muzzle velocity is approx 2,930 fps.

I bought some locally made PMP ProAmm 286 RNSP's but they have not grouped well in my rifle. I will press on with the Woodleighs as I only have herd management/meat animals to shoot from now on and will try for head shots

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I will be contacting Woodleigh's upon my return and sending back the remaining projectiles from that Lot Number for investigation. I have only hit ribs with them but I expected them to expand in the Eland. Both the skinner and Chris Troskie agree they are not expanding. I have great faith in Woodleigh Projectiles and seem to have hit an anomally.

From now on I will use the RNSP Woodleighs in the 9.3x62 if/when I return to Africa.

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