I suppose every hunt is special in its own way but this one in particular for me was the culmination of years of planing and work in bringing it all together. This was an outing for my 7x57 with all the desirable bits together and blooded as a single unit. Rifle is a built on 1908 DWM with Rigby style aperture sights and a cast 160gn bullet with the front 65gn soft for expansion, and run at 2415fps it certainly does that. Had hunted this bullet (and reported elsewhere) but with the rifle scoped for the ocasion as the aperture stem was away to be worked on at the time. Hunting mate was using his tika 270 - 140gn interloct - 4-16, as a single shot as he had recently lost the magazine. We got onto a mob of goats at 570yds (my Leica 1200) and stalked in to as close as we had cover for then waited as they were also coming closer. At 143 yds, with a rest on a day pack, I took the first shot and it was all on. My last shot was at 185 yds as the remainder climbed out and dissapared over ridges. All shots after the first had been offhand and all up I fired 6 shots with 4 goats on the ground. Surprisingly enough the single shot 270 had almost the same results.
This was my first one down.
At home ready to be dressed out.
Rifle although the aperture sight has now been blued.
The cast softnose. You can just see the join line where the soft nose and the hard shank meet.
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