"Mountain" 8x57 load

[bearhunter]

Bearhunter why are you not a fan of Privi bullets?

I put a 196 grain privi 8mm through the top/side of a small (ish) boar's scapula through to the ball of the shoulder on the offside. Lots of damage but that is expected with that shot placement.
D(ish)RT

Bullet exited, and you definitely knew that it did

I found a little bit of jacket in the offside hide nut that was it.

Conor, I find Privi bullets sometimes won't expand at all or expand to much, and are often very inconsistent accuracy wise from lot to lot.

I went through a lot of them, and wasn't satisfied with their consistency enough to trust them on a hunt, where an animal could easily be lost or worse wounded and get away.

It's just my personal experience with them. Your rifle may shoot them very well and you've been lucky enough they perform well.

If you're happy with them, by all means keep using them. Better stock up soon, because they won't be sending them to North America any more, after Putin called them out.

 

[bearhunter]

I have a 700 Remington in 8x57JS. Pet loads are 185 Remington PSPCL, the 196 Oryx, and the 200 Accubond.
W760 is a winner for all these bullets, as is Vihtavuori N150 and Norma 203b. Regards, Dave.

I exclusively shoot bullets weighing close to 200 grains from my 8x57JS hunting rifles, no boat tails, flat base round nose or spire points only.

Velocities are around 2600fps and accuracy is great, as is performance on game.

W760/H414, are my go to powders, over CCI250 magnum primers. VVN150/N550 are good as well.

VVN160 gave great accuracy but velocities were around 2400fps and I wanted "more"

 

[dgradinaru]

Been working on some new loads and threw a few together.

170gr SST with 49.5gr of IMR 4895 out of my tikka 8x57. Averaged 2710 fps, so a mild load. Shot 1/2".

 

[dgradinaru]

Also working on a new load with CFE223. Out of a 8x57 with a 24" barrel I did hit 3000 fps with a barnes TTSX 160gr, makes just shy of 3200 ft-lbs at the muzzle. So pretty much 7mm Rem Mag performance. 5 shot group averaged 1.25". Will play around with this load in hopes for 3/4"-1".

 

[dgradinaru]

I came across some warm loads from an older Barnes source. Thought I'd share. Touching nearly 2800 fps with 180's, 2600 with 200's, and almost 2500 fps with 220's is getting up there.

 

[MRP]

170sst and cfe223

 

[Andy]

Interesting factoid: You can safely use 30-06 loads in the 8X57 one-to-one for all bullet weights and achieve near identical MV's.

The 200 gr in the 8X57 has a SD close to the 180 gr in the 30-06.

 

[dgradinaru]

Here' another load I worked up last week. 150gr Hornady Interlock with imr 4895 at 2975fps. Shot between .85" and 1" groups at 100 yards. Should be adequate for a mountian load.

 

[jamesharrison]

How about a 150 or 160 grain Fox mono bullet?