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Rule303, I have seen a great many animals wounded with the 8X68, most likely more than you have killed

Some days my clients & I might shoot 5 or more big game animals !

When I worked in Zim it was a European rifle of some sort, I think a Carl Gustav with a Hog back stock, booted your face in as I remember & all those Euro projectiles, a few others when working in other country's & the last couple of years in South Africa with a German Weatherby & again different sorts of ammo, some worse than others, TUGs & H mantel for sure, still I don't like the .270 either for the same reason !

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Sarg not saying you have not seen it used on a lot of animals. Re the 270, I have shot a shit load of animals with it and have never experienced these truck loads of wounding. I have had one wounding that should have been a kill shot with the 270. The first of the Nosler ballistic tipped Solid Base projectiles. Never used that projectile again. I suspect what you have witnessed is the ammunition. I ran some RWS 200grain through the chrony. MV was around 250fps less then my home loads. Bloody pathetic loads from the factory, same with some 270 loads.

The 8X57 has killed a more game than you and I will ever see, and it does not seem to wound like a ballistic superior cartridge. Same the 280 which is .007" bigger than a 270 does not seem to wound game as much. I have a mate here who has shot a truck load of animals with the 8X68s, no complaints from him or Carl Stumpfe, a PH in Namibia.

What I am saying here is I do not believe it is the calibre/cartridge at fault. I believe the fault lies with the actual bullet/powder combination used on the day and/or the shooter. These are the reasons I loathed the 243 for years when I first started hunting.

Edited by Rule303 (12/12/17 11:06 AM)

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