life-style Aussies. They very much want a hunter to succeed and it sure shows in many different ways when working with them. If you’re wondering where my guide, Marc McDonnell, was dur- ing all this time? Well, he was hauling kangaroo hides and goat heads to the taxidermist for storage and tanning. Hot weather didn’t allow much time to stand around with fresh meat or hides in hand. This whole operation was a total team effort by my newfound friends. Guns and Loads
Kangaroos, hogs and big goats
are tough critters, and I mean tough. The best choice for hunting them is, in my mind, the 22-250 when using the correct bullet, because of several reasons. Sure, you can haul in a 6mm or a quarter bore like the 257 Weatheby or 25-06, but if ammo supplies dwindle you’re about out of luck down under. Most gun shops, and I did visit several, tended to carry 223 (5.56mm) for the commercial roo hunters who night hunt and head-shoot everything. Also, the 22-250 Remington is quite common on store shelves. Marc handloaded two cartridges
for the rifles he had elected to haul into the bush. The first was his deadly accurate bench rest Magnum Research carbon fiber barreled 6mm Tubbs, built on a 22-250 case straight walled and expanded to 6mm. The second was a Magnum Research 7mm-08. Heavy cartridges compared to the 22-250 with a 50-grain through 55-grain bullet, but Marc, unlike me, could get back to his loading bench when ammo shortage problems surfaced. Shooting the well-designed Nor-
ma Oryx 55-grain soft nose did give me an edge in the lightweight, fast mover department against larger targets. For the most part, with my rifle I was engaging animals with body weights that ran from 75 to 150 pounds. Upon recovering a bullet from a red roo taken at 300 yards, I found later at my loading bench the perfectly mushroomed bullet (with a good section of main base still intact) had lost 0.5 grain off the starting 55-grain bullet weight. That’s effective, and the bullet had crossed the large animal’s body, cutting the main femur in the left leg, and stopped at the hide on the far side of the critter. This illustrates
just how effective Norma is on medium size game and varmints. However, I also found that the
Black Hills-loaded 50-grain V-Max in a Hornady bullet tended to make a good showing for themselves as well. These were turned to as hog killers, with great results when I could keep my bullets out of the gut area. The Hornady V-Max was just outstanding on hogs, as it tended to turn vitals to jelly in short order. Gut shots always demand additional gun- ning, but that shot would slow down the critter and almost always allow a second or third round to be delivered to the front half of the the animal. Only during some night shooting did several porkers get away because of bad, low in the body hits. When hunting fallow deer, I made
use of the third round in my arsenal, the Federal Cartridge’s 60-grain Nosler Partition bullets. I was saving these just for the deer hunting, and with a medium size 5x4 fallow buck spotted on my last day in the field, the Nosler bullets in Federal cases produced fine results. With proper bullet selection matched to each type of game or varmint, the
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