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Specialty Handgun Hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="bar63" data-source="post: 797037" data-attributes="member: 23155"><p>SSK uses Shilen barrels. Don't know what kind Fred @ Bullberry uses, but i can tell you the last three that showed up in this neck of the woods look and shoot outstanding. Other cartridges...hmmm...6mm Improved? Light 6mm bulletts and Wyoming Wind do not mix well. 150 yards for 60grainers and the odds become a lot better for prairie dogs. The 225 Win. based JDJ cartridges are the kings of performance in Contenders. My friend had a 257JDJ years ago that would put 87g Nosler BT in 1/2 in. doing nearly 2800fps. Great for small stuff, lacking on antelope @ 300. 6.5 JDJ is pleasant to shoot and kills well with the basket of 120g stuff on deer. To soup things up a bit, the 6.5 Mini-Dreadnaught looks tantalizing. Good barrels on TC frames will shoot 1/2MOA in the hands of a good operator. They are easy to shoot and do not bear the serious $$$$ burden of a custom bolt gun. The horsepower and accuracy required to work at 500yds will not be inexpensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bar63, post: 797037, member: 23155"] SSK uses Shilen barrels. Don't know what kind Fred @ Bullberry uses, but i can tell you the last three that showed up in this neck of the woods look and shoot outstanding. Other cartridges...hmmm...6mm Improved? Light 6mm bulletts and Wyoming Wind do not mix well. 150 yards for 60grainers and the odds become a lot better for prairie dogs. The 225 Win. based JDJ cartridges are the kings of performance in Contenders. My friend had a 257JDJ years ago that would put 87g Nosler BT in 1/2 in. doing nearly 2800fps. Great for small stuff, lacking on antelope @ 300. 6.5 JDJ is pleasant to shoot and kills well with the basket of 120g stuff on deer. To soup things up a bit, the 6.5 Mini-Dreadnaught looks tantalizing. Good barrels on TC frames will shoot 1/2MOA in the hands of a good operator. They are easy to shoot and do not bear the serious $$$$ burden of a custom bolt gun. The horsepower and accuracy required to work at 500yds will not be inexpensive. [/QUOTE]
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