Richard.Howe
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My M70 is sighted in using my normal factory load of 175 gr. Federal Gold Medal BTHP MatchKing. If given the opportunity to use this round on coyotes & S. Texas hogs, how would you expect it to perform?
This is clearly not an ideal hunting load, but I know exactly how this factory round acts out to 500m, and don't want to take a bunch of time to 1) work up a new handload or 2) buy a sampling of factory hunting ammo, check for accuracy, and then characterize ballistics for a bunch of varmints...
...unless, of course, the performance of a MatchKing would not yield a humane harvest of these animals. This is the most important thing to me.
Thanks!
Rich
This is clearly not an ideal hunting load, but I know exactly how this factory round acts out to 500m, and don't want to take a bunch of time to 1) work up a new handload or 2) buy a sampling of factory hunting ammo, check for accuracy, and then characterize ballistics for a bunch of varmints...
...unless, of course, the performance of a MatchKing would not yield a humane harvest of these animals. This is the most important thing to me.
Thanks!
Rich