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The group you posted would gender a lot of load testing in my digs. I'm sure your rifle was regulated far more tightly than that, so the load you are useing is not right, by some distance. If it satisfies you, however, it is your rifle. Since you are not hunting with this rifle nothing is lost if paper is punched in a wide group, as paper doesn't suffer! Addtionally, you will not get a horn up the butt if you fail to stop something that wants to hurt you!

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It was out of a .30-06 Winchester Model 70. No regulation, no issue with accuracy (it goes much tighter off a bench), just my shakey hands at 300 yards shooting freehanded. (Which is a distance I deem much too far to take ANY game animal if I am going to shoot it.)

About the only animal I would use that rifle on (even if I were in a hunting mood) would be the vicious North American Prarie Dog. It might be a tough one, though, if pulling in close charge stopping shots. I've heard horror stories about their sharp squarish shaped fangs lacerating limbs of other horrible shots like myself. And those sharp claws they possess instill fear in even the most hearty of African Elephant.

(Sorry, I've been dipping into the Bacardi tonight. Back to my original reason for response, it was just to show my own horrible accuracy, not the rifle, the load or anything else.)

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500 is a nice round number, either followed by "Nitro Express" or by "cubic inch displacement".

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