I've shot Hornandys on big game before, includeing the 139/7mmm. (in a 7 express Rem., and 7 Rem. mag.) I wasn't nearly so impressed withthem as Van seems to be.

As a guy that spent most of my time hunting in the bush of Alaska over the 25 years i lived there, 99.0% of the guys i saw carrying a Wby rifle were folks that just bought it new, and had all new cloths to go with it. Many had not fired there rifle more than 20 times in there life. I never saw even one "old hunter or guide" there carrying a Wby rifle.

I found the same thing many pro hunters in africa found, those 9 locking lugs would bind if "anything" got into them. (snow, dirt or ??) The only rifle i ever had fail in the field was a Wby mark 5. The bolt stop broke and the bolt came out in my hand when i shot at a moose andwas bolting the gun for a second shot. (340 wby mag.) I also knew a guy that lost the bolt out of his Wby when he opened the bolt, and put the rifle on his pack when walking up a trail. (they have this fixed now)

"If" those Hornandy bullets were so good, Wby wouldn't have made a deal with Nosler to put the first decent bullet that was ever in there ammo...

BTW, i'm not a fan of there "Norma" made brass that's on the soft side either. (i still have a 240 Wby on a Rem. 700 action/POAckley bbl)

In all my years of hunting i've never see any bullet work as well as a Nosler partition. There are lots of premium bullets made today, i even use to manufacture some myself, but nothing has such a high "working range" as NP's do. They expand in small animials and at lower velocities while still driveing in deep, with 99.9% exits even at high velocity! And that's "my" kind of bullet!!!

"If" you don't have an exit wound 99.9% of the time you won't have a blood trail either, and sometimes you need every advantage you can get to recover your animial.

Make my "hunting" bullets NP's please..........

Drilling Man