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Hey guys have settled on a longer range hunting projectile but not on a bush round yet. Come down to the above projectiles. Have used the GK in the 165s and was impressed but read good things about the 120 PHs. Also anyone have some laying around they no longer use that I could buy. Regards john
No real difference, both are a cup design, non bonded.
Do the job no worries.
GK is a boat tail design, but if its a bush round, again, won't give you anything over a flat bottom.
I prefer the GKs in a number of calibres purely for ease of seating the projectiles.
Both will kill things dead. A boat tail really is unnecessary on a "short range" projectile as the ballistic advantage it adds only begins to show as speed drops towards transsonic.
Soft points seem to expand better but hollow points may have better brush busting properties.
If its a 6.5 swede, I just use the same 139 SP gr pro hunter for everything. After all why complicate things .
Sorry forgot to say it is a 260.
120's hit hard, similar bc to130 .270.. I've found the 140's can go straight-through over 400m,unless they hit a good bit of bone. Sierra prohunter are my choice. Should add 140's were Norma-spitzer bt
Yeah my LR pill is a 140gr eldm so should go pop even at distance
Pro hunters are great for bush hunting
Unsure how important this is but will be chasing mostly sika and fallow with the odd red thrown in. Heard the pro-hunters go well on sika sized animals but how do they go on reds? Down to 1 rifle so this will be what I use in the roar and just wondering how the pro-hunter would fare against a rutty stag
Either or mate, I use 120 PH's in my 260 rem. The 130 HPBT's also have a great rep overseas for flattning deer within normal hunting ranges.
Just the bees for your short tube. Pro-hunter 120gr a great all rounder, based on info by those who have used. @GWH should have some answers.
I just started loading them for a Mod7 260 in front of W748, a moderate load hitting 2800fps and it groups well. About to try on some reds & goats in a couple of weeks.
Edit: GWH on the case already
Cheers for answering the constant questions guys. @Mathias I have a heap of 2209 and 1lb of 2208 so will try with what I have.
I don't have a 6.5 but from what mates keep telling me you cant go past Nosler Partitions (in 6.5 there are 125 grn partitions) for any sub-270 calibre rifle. . I mean this with all sincerity. - (Of course as everyone knows once you graduate to a 270, you then have enough power to do the job which ever bullet is selected.)
Haha owned a 270. Put a box through it and sold it. For that amount of noise and kick I was personally not impressed.
Before i went to H414 in the 260, i use to run 46.5gr of 2209 with the 120 gr pro hunter at around 2850 fps from a 20 inch barrel. Shot .5 inch at 100 pretty easy. With H414 can get very close to 3k still with good accuracy.Quote:
Originally Posted by superdiver
Edit: I have found that CCI 200 primers give better results in 260 rem than the Fed 210's do. This was a tip i got from a 260 rem target shooter old guy ;-)
I tried 120gr pro hunters but between the change in POI and the same perceived recoil I ended up using 143eld x for everything
Ive got some 120 Pro Hunters I think? Are they the hot core? @Tahr sent me some to try like a year ago:D testing them this weekend but happy to flick you a handful
Just remember,any rutting-stag needs to be hit properly with any reasonable caliber...testosterone and adrenalin are a powerful combo... and .270's are great with 110gr pro-hunters..the only weight I bother using in them
I think a few might have missed the Sierra GK in this case is the hollow point, in all calibers this particular bullet is tough and punches hard, a heavy bodied Bull Tahr at 5 feet? just the bullet you want! bc's are not great but as a 300yd pill I have used it lots and like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by superdiver
Yeah I ran the 165s in my 308 @257weatherby and it killed real hard on tahr, chamois, fallow and goats. But heard so much great stuff about the pro hunters so it is hard to make my mind up.
I have never tried the 110's but I have used the 90grn HP's on chams and goats. I don't want to come back as either one of them in another life !! And yes a stirred up stag can take some knocking downQuote:
Originally Posted by rewa
Big and fast is best, but for what we are talking - a 260 we cant have both so a fast tough bullet must be better than a heavy but slow one - I think both these points being the general conclusion and the conclusion that superdiver had come too before posting. So which bullet is light enough to be driven fast and will open fast but still hold together ?.
Still think the Partition would be hard to beat out to 300metres
Personally I think the 260 is probably the best of the 308 derived chamberings and wouldn't mind one myself
Never a truer word spoken :thumbsup: Hail the holey 260 :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Moa Hunter
I think 140s in 708 or 150s in 308 do that happy medium well...as do 140s in 260 if you crank it a bitQuote:
Originally Posted by Moa Hunter
Yeah the 140eldms are doing 2770~ so sure I can get some reasonable speed out of whatever bush load I make up.
Sorry mate i was full tangled up with what they were
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Been lookin for speer hc 120s lol
You will be stoked that your search is now over and you now have a photo you can save to your device and peruse at your leisure :P ;)
Hahaha :D
Bloody hungus :P
I feckin love Speer hot cors. You got any spare. Just got rem mod 7 in .260
I did, but then someone said they dont make them anymore so im going to hang onto them for now. If they dont shoot il give em away
I ment 120gn remington corelokts are no more unsure on speers 🤔😳
Sierra Prohunter has almost identical behavior to the Hotcor, tried them both over a number of different cartridges, same killing, the Sierra tends to shoot tighter groups (but groups don't kill animals)Quote:
Originally Posted by nor-west
Hey guys just an update. Went with the 130gr hpbt and if they do not work will be going to the 120gr spt. On a side note who runs these in a 260 as cannot find anything of real value online about them. If anyone wants to try some I am happy to swap for some of those 120 Pro hunters as would be good to have a handful in the cupboard.
The only thing I didn’t like about the ph in my 260 was that they were very short in the tip before reaching the ojive
This meant they had to be seated way deeper in the case than I like
Anyone??
