I'm sighted in ready for Deer Season.

Gus S.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 05:21 (2072 days ago)

I finally got out to shoot. Got the 7GNR ready to go. Making nice groups at 100 yard with 120s. Really happy with it. Wish I had time to shoot it to 200 yards that day. I have zero concerns about the 7GNR doing what I want it to.

Also got to shoot the 475 this weekend. Its a handful. To me its very different from my heavy 44 mag loads. I haven't shot many guns more powerful than 44 mag to the point of really getting very familiar with them other than a scoped 454. This 475 with the load I have (340s over 30 gr of H110) recoils with a hard push and roll that is hard to stop. What I mean is, it seem like I have to learn to manage it, not manhandle it. But,.. it hits the mark with every shot as long as I'm not anticipating. I need to load another 50 and spend some time with it and build my confidence. Get to where I'm shoot with more intuition. I really like it. Everything I've read says the gun is great shooting 400s around 1100-1200 fps. I want to try that when I get some time. Until then, I'm just going to to find a decent holster to carry it in and take it hunting. I really need to kill a big fat hog with this gun. My brother in law runs a big rice farm on the Pee Dee river and they're just over run with hogs. Got to get him to take me out there.

I loaded the 400 gr. Speer jacketed bullet around 1200

Jim Taylor
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 06:35 (2072 days ago) @ Gus S.

Shot full length through a hog and could hear the bullet going WHACK WHACK through the trees after it made a big dust cloud in front of the pig ... there is a photo of me and the hog in Speer Loading Manual .. #14 I think it is.

Yup, 14 it is, page 1009

steve todd
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 09:50 (2072 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

In the 475 Linbaugh data. Wish those 400 grainers were easier to find. I only have about 60 of them left, that i’m saving for an elk hunt, that may never happen.

pick up some of Montana Bullet Works' 475 caliber

Gary Reeder
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 10:34 (2072 days ago) @ steve todd

gas check bullets. They do as well if not better than most jacketed bullets and a lot cheaper to shoot....(damn, now I'm sounding like WB)

325gr Speer

james
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 11:40 (2072 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Jim, Used a Speer 325gr JFP in Gallagher 457LB to take this boar. Good, strong and accurate bullets....[image]

Yes, i have been using the 375 grain

steve todd
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 11:57 (2072 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Montana Bullet Works gas check. They are beautiful and shoot extremely well, and like the 400 grain Speer, they dont expand on jackrabbits for some reason.

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