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Ive seen those 117 RN dump deer and moose in their tracks first hand in 25-35 250-3000 and 2506. That bullet is just plain magic. Great SD and expansion. Punches way above its weight at respectable distances

I had a 24" TC encore barrel made in 256 mag. 357 mag brass necked down and loaded with 75gr vmax at 2500 fps is wildly fun. It no recoil in a rifle and is explosive on gophers and coyotes. I would love to have a marlin 1894c or ruger 77 carbine made up in 256 one day.

I have a 256 win mag, 25-35, 250 savage, 25-06, and 257 Weatherby. All are great cartridges

I have two 300 win mag TikkaT3X&700 Rim mag

Bet that 550 kicks like crazy

I wish you would have done 3 round average.

I just don`t understand why people do these "V`s" videos with incomparable subjects!!

Great to hear Kevin on the show again, really enjoyed watching & listening especially talking about the big bore calibers.

another Video with Dr Kevin Robertson , i press like , i really enjoy listening to these videos , dont think i will ever make it to africa , but im okay with that

I see a 3rd Infantry Division patch in your display. I was HHC 2nd Brigade, 3rd ID, Kitzingen, Germany in 1974-1976. We shall remain here. Nous resterons la. Rock of the Marne. Our HHC 2nd Brigade motto was 'Send Me'.

Best episodes with Doctari and Africa!

18:38 What you say is not true. The first cartridge with an rebatet rim was the 11.2x72 Schüler. By the way, you could/should have mentioned them in your video. August Schüler was a German gunsmith from Suhl and had already patented the idea with the rebatet rim in 1904. He also did the same thing with the 11.2x60 Schüler, .404 Schüler Magnum and the .500 Schüler (12,7x70) now known as the .500 Jeffery. The British generally stole/copied a lot of ideas from the Germans and sold them as their own. .425 WR, .275 Rigby, .500 Jeffery are just a few of countless examples. In return, they passed laws that effectively banned German construction for big game hunting in the British colonies. Well-known examples of this are the minimum caliber 9.5 mm/.375, with which the 9.3x62, 9.3x74R and 9.3x64 were deliberately banned from their colonies, which in turn were very successful in the German, French and Belgian colonies. If Mauser and August Schüler had not delivered any systems to England back then, the British would probably not have had a single decent repeating rifle at their disposal to this day

The stories told are sooo interesting could sit and hear him talk of those accounts all day. Going to look for entire series you've done.

My great grandpappy won a 2 bore stopping rifle in Africa in 69 in his early 30s I still have that monster of a gun

Awesome videos as usual!

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Really enjoy your series with Doc. Robertson on cartridges for Africa and dangerous game.

Hornady needs to buy me a $600 Cronograph so I can keep up with their changes.

7mm 08 for me and I can use the same projectiles in my 7mm Remington magnum,

30 30 with a 170 grain cast bullet.

the 25 wsm looks funny

Back in the 80s, factory ammo in most cartridges, seldom hit advertised velocity. Hence, I started reloading my own at a very young age. I don't reloading ammo anymore, and pretty much am at the mercy of what factory ammo is going to give in velocity. Now, I don't shoot very far when it comes to hunting so they way I figure, whether the ammo in my 7PRC is running 2800fps or 3000fps, doesn't really matter to me or the animal. What matters is I shoot that ammo and verify it's all sighted in before I go hunting. But that's just me.

Took my REM 700 titanium Alaskan wilderness rifle in .300 WSM to Canada. It did the job.

If you're worried about recoil, man up or get a muzzle brake.

I Have a rum. I put a custom brake on it and I could shoot it all day.

I'm getting 2825 fps out of a 26 inch barrel.. definitely not 3000

If you are serious about pelts you will go with the 204 Ruger it would have an edge over the others 🙂

I believe you would have better penetration at longer ranges as the velocity drops out to about 200 yards.

On 18 Aug, 2024 I shot 34 rounds of 7mm PRC Hornady Precision Hunter ELD-X that I purchased the day before at Bass Pro. Using the Garmin Chronograph my average speed was 2810, with a min of 2789 and a max of 2854. Was shooting out of a 2020 Waypoint with a 24 inch barrel. Both boxes had the same lot # of 3241973.

Humm… If you took the overall rifle length of a 300 win mag with lets say a 26” barrel, changed it to a 300 wsm with that light, short action, reduced the over length of that rifle by an inch 1/2- 2 inches, added that back onto the 300wsm barrel length, how would it perform compared to the 300 win… Kinda kick its ass and be cooler 😎

I prefer 7mm-08 - and 243

Wish someone would make a factory rifle with a 1:7 twist 338 federal for those long high bc copper bullets

Our current EDC is .25acp...we are well aware of it's shortcomings, but it gets carried, whereas our .45 sits in the safe (the .38s now on HD duty)...as seniors small, lightweight, low recoil are attractive features...rule #1 applies...

Maybe 6.8 western would be doing better if it was a 7mm... that 270 caliber is kind of an oddball diameter. Also it doesnt help that you are so limited in rifle and ammo choices.

Have not used but prefer the 45/70 as practical but what is best for long range as mile or two and what is Reange of the sharps 90 /110 or 45/70 compesrd to the Winchester 1886 45)70

I have a .257 Roberts in Ruger M77. Have killed many deer, coyotes and hogs with it using g the 117 gr. Hornady Light Mangnum. When they got hard to find switched to 90 grain Sierra GK loaded with Varget. My daughter uses it now and never missed or lost a deer with that loading. Also have a Rem. 700 CDL in 25-06. Very accurate with 100 grain Speer btsps loaded with 4350. Killed 2 pronghorn in Wyoming the longest was 350 yards. Lot of deer, hogs and coyotes with it as well.

1953 Remington 721 in 270 Winchester was the first rifle I've ever been able to stack my holes on top of each other at 100 yds. When you have three shots that look like one ragged hole for your first time in your shooting history it instantly creates a long range addiction

When I look at the rifles I want since none of them seem to have shelf access except maybe 7 run mag I have to plan on going to a gun store or hand loading for everything that I desire so I take the shelf availability out of the equation when estimating what it is I think I need or want so 68 Western and 7 PRC with both being such a close caliber in size and shooting weights that are very similar and me shooting primarily for Target it's really whatever rifle I can get my hands on for the best price. Obviously Remington 700 make a tested and true rifle that just cannot be beat in a Browning x bolt a nice rifle as well so if you're not looking at modifying like you what a Honda Civic it is hard to say which one you're going to go with

Years ago, talked with a hunter who was a 270 hunter. Bought a 7mm-08 rifle , the store did not have a 270. Came in store looking to buy more ammo for his 7-08. He was really suprised how that round took a deer.

No, I sold it 6 months ago. I do still have reloading dies that I have never used. 😅

Good for home defense?

And, I don't care : ) Said the baby browning !

I purchased both the 223wssm and the 25wssm in the Browning rifles. I could not find any factory ammunition after a few years. When I did find it, I would buy it all. I still have bags of new 223wssm brass from Winchester. I never could find the 25wssm brass. I sold the 25 about 10 years ago. The factory ammunition from Winchester would split the case at the neck. I inspected and noticed that all of the factory ammunition had a small deformity in the neck, causing the problem. I called Winchester before covid and was asked to return all the ammunition so they could inspect it. I took videos and pictures and was told that, unfortunately, they were never going to produce the ammunition again. They could only give me credit for a different caliber of new brass. That is the shortest version of a 6 month back and forth between myself and Winchester.

Very. Informative. Video. Now. Like. You.said. the. Different. Reasons. To. Make. Things. Work. Individually. For. You. In. Specialized. Use. I. Find. The. Rimmed. Cartridges. Interesting. For. Levers. As. You. Mentioned. And. They. Seem. To. Be. Favorable. In. Sxs. Olu. And. Sls. Rifles. Thats. All. I. Know. But. That. Is. My. Uniqueness. Kinda. Traditional. In. An. Old. Fashioned. Way. Have. A. Nice. Day...

I hear that Hornady is working on a 25 Creedmoor. That would be interesting and I am sure will have a twist rate to accommodate a heavier/higher bc bullet.

25 caliber is very underrated. 257 WBY is my personal favorite. 257 WBY has been very easy to load for. Some of my loads 92 gr Hammer @ 3875 FPS .3inch groups 101 gr Barnes LRX @ 3814 FPS Right around 1 MOA. 110 gr Accubond @ 3500 FPS .5 inch gropus 135 gr Berger @ 3150 FPS with .9 inch groups (Only reason my rifle shoots this bullet is due to my high elevation)

I just subscribed to you channel very entertaining thanks.

Idk who thinks that a 35 yo woman is young?? This dude must be the wrong side of 90

71+ year old FUD here. Another fine educational and entertaining video. The 250-3000 (like a lot of other cartridges) has been vastly improved with modern powders and bullets. If you search you will find reloading data from reputable publications that show the 100 grain bullet can be safely pushed to 3000 fps even in the Savage 99 with the 1/14 twist. My 99 is a 1951 model with its original K4 Weaver. Shoots 1” groups at 100 yards with Remington factory ammo. As to the BOB Jack O’Connor and others considered it the perfect deer cartridge but in the early 1960’s Jack was lamenting its demise. He wrote about that in his “Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns”. I do know one person somewhat younger than me who hunts deer with the BOB and he thinks it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. I don’t yet own a BOB but I have been enamored with the idea for sev😮eral years. To that end I bought an already nicely sporterized 1913 Kar. 98 Mauser 8x57 with what my well experience real gunsmith tells me is a graft line walnut stock. I got the rifle really cheap on Gunbroker because who ever built it left the original military stepped barrel on it which was in only fair condition at best, so I’m having it re-barreled to 257 Roberts. When it’s finished I will have less than $850.00 invested including the cheap scope that came on the rifle. I thought that was pretty good for a controlled round feed rifle with a action that is the perfect length for the cartridge just like that action is for 7x57. The old 722 Remington’s are a nice rifle but you can’t load the longer heavier bullets out far enough to take full advantage of case capacity. Regarding the 257 Weatherby I have a friend who shoots one. I once saw him shoot a medium size Whitetail buck at something close to 450 yards with an 87 grain bullet. I don’t know what type. One shot, grave yard dead right there. The only two Weatherby rifles I have any interest in are the 257 and 270 ( his first two designs) and that is only because of what I call geographic home town pride. I live only a few miles here in central Kansas from where Roy Weatherby grew up and have known several of his contemporaries. One gentleman from our church who was close to Roy regaled me with stories of their adventures growing up together before WWII. Sadly those those folks are all gone now. I’ll probably never have a chance to hunt with either of those rifles if I do manage to obtain either but sometimes just pride of ownership is enough reason to have something. Happy hunting boys and girls!😊

Great video. It’s obvious how much work you put into it. Thanks for posting.