BornAgainBullseye
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I have been steady working up a recipe for 8x57 to hunt with out of my M48A. It is a brand new unissued rifle, so plenty strong. Don't take this recipe and just throw it together in any old 8mm. It is max load for "MY RIFLE". The primer is flat but not bulged. here it goes... Remington Brass trimmed with Lee case trimmer. Remington 9 1/2 primer, 150 grain Hornaday Interlock SP. 55.3 grains of Winchester 748. Don't have the OAL in hand, but it is seated just enough to clear the box, and it is not jammed in the lands. When I go back downstairs Ill look up the measurement. It is clocking dern near 2900fps 10 ft from the muzzle, they are clocking in around 2880 to 2890. Anyways.... I have really come to respect this round as it is really potent. I am also wondering why there is not a bigger fan base here... mabye because we drive Fords and Chevys and hate BMW's, but this thing thumps.... I just shot a doe this afternoon with it, and the exit hole looked fairly small... but she dropped in her tracks. It was behind the shoulder a little on the high side, but still center..... not a spine shot. When I skinned it out and gutted it was when the truth came out... The damage that was done was something that shocked me. The exit side, half the shoulderblade was outside of her body, but not out of the skin. There was a huge amount of blooding, but no meat was ruined. Everything in the ribcage was liquid including heart.. kind of reminds me of a .223, but on a macro scale. There was not very much blood as I was dragging her out, and only a little in the truck. I didn't find fragments or multiple exits, but im thinking that mabye the bullet came apart too fast and dumped inside this queen. Possibly lacking weight retention to punch a big exit hole and paint the forest, but hea... It worked pretty well... It was a 70 yard shot BTW through a reciever sight, and standard front blade. Mabye I should slow it down or try a bonded 180 grain.... What do you guys think??????????
