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[Electric Ian]

I've been using 120 Sako powerhead blade for the last 2 seasons. I'm very happy with the round but it's very expensive for the amount of deer I account for. Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone is using?
The rifle is a 22" lupo 1:10 used primarily on red hinds average range 250 yards.

 

[Malxwal]

Stick with, as if you don't reload, finding something else you're very happy with could cost you a lot of money ?

 

[Mike1979]

Personally if it does the job that is the most important thing. £3 per round for a red doesnt seem a lot given you are happy with it.

Reloading will cost you a shed load more in the short term.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

I've been using 120 Sako powerhead blade for the last 2 seasons. I'm very happy with the round but it's very expensive for the amount of deer I account for. Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone is using?
The rifle is a 22" lupo 1:10 used primarily on red hinds average range 250 yards.

£3 a round is nothing In the grand scheme of things, just don’t waste them, 3 round to check zero 17 dead deer is what an old gunsmith once told me

 

[Dave_45]

Cheapest I found was THAC at £95 per 100 but they are reload only, normally available from Malmo guns.

A high profile gunsmith not normally seen on here wants to charge £134 per 100 for some unbeknown reason

 

[Electric Ian]

Has anyone used the S&B TXRG?

 

[chriswjx]

Personally if it does the job that is the most important thing. £3 per round for a red doesnt seem a lot given you are happy with it.

Reloading will cost you a shed load more in the short term.

Would say though, £3 (or more like £3.50/£4 at current prices) is not a lot yes... But availability on the other hand?

Believe new stock hit the shelves recently, but for the better part of 6 months, it just could not be had for love or money from what I've been told!

Know a chap up past Inverness who round October/Noverber time basically rang every shop starting from the north down trying to find any. Managed to get 200 from Edinburgh RIfles, but that was him until now...

Yes, the reloading might set you back more, but at least you are soemwhat better insulated from ammo scarcity... (Yes I know component shortages exist too, but that's what stockpiling is for, and you can stockpile components much easier than ammo...)

 

[Mike1979]

Has anyone used the S&B TXRG?

I've used this in the 6.5 Manbun gun and its just as effective as the Blades were. Grouping for me was similar at around the 1"..Ive moved down the reloading route and getting 1;4" groups with 120 grain Barnes TTSX

 

[Mike1979]

Would say though, £3 (or more like £3.50/£4 at current prices) is not a lot yes... But availability on the other hand?

Believe new stock hit the shelves recently, but for the better part of 6 months, it just could not be had for love or money from what I've been told!

Know a chap up past Inverness who round October/Noverber time basically rang every shop starting from the north down trying to find any. Managed to get 200 from Edinburgh RIfles, but that was him until now...

Yes, the reloading might set you back more, but at least you are soemwhat better insulated from ammo scarcity... (Yes I know component shortages exist too, but that's what stockpiling is for, and you can stockpile components much easier than ammo...)

I started reloading recently. Whilst you make a good point about availability of ammo the thing I wanted was accuracy and I have achieved that. I shoot more and actually enjoy the process (when it works)

 

[slider]

Personally if it does the job that is the most important thing. £3 per round for a red doesnt seem a lot given you are happy with it.

Reloading will cost you a shed load more in the short term.

I bought a coupe of boxes of Sako Powerblade 120 a few weeks ago - £80/ box! £4 per round is a lot for a 12 kg roe!

 

[wytonpjs]

I bought a coupe of boxes of Sako Powerblade 120 a few weeks ago - £80/ box! £4 per round is a lot for a 12 kg roe!

I hear what you say but roe taken with DDM incur a carcass fee of £7 so its near £10 a roe for me. However, as you know, I provided breakdowns of carcasses before and its not impossible to recoup well over a £100 from a carcass that size. Last roe I did made £110, the one before £129.

Now what ****es me off is going to the range and expending rounds zeroing - I've just juggled scopes and QD mounts across 3 rifles so I have 6 combinations to do next time - that's going to be painful

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

I hear what you say but roe taken with DDM incur a carcass fee of £7 so its near £10 a roe for me. However, as you know, I provided breakdowns of carcasses before and its not impossible to recoup well over a £100 from a carcass that size. Last roe I did made £110, the one before £129.

Now what ****es me off is going to the range and expending rounds zeroing - I've just juggled scopes and QD mounts across 3 rifles so I have 6 combinations to do next time - that's going to be painful

1 way around that, use 1 rifle then 1 zero check simple as that.

 

[Tim.243]

I hear what you say but roe taken with DDM incur a carcass fee of £7 so its near £10 a roe for me. However, as you know, I provided breakdowns of carcasses before and its not impossible to recoup well over a £100 from a carcass that size. Last roe I did made £110, the one before £129.

Now what ****es me off is going to the range and expending rounds zeroing - I've just juggled scopes and QD mounts across 3 rifles so I have 6 combinations to do next time - that's going to be painful

The round has and always been the cheapest part of shooting, look at "shot fee" in a guided stalk £3.00 for the round then the "shot fee" of say £50.00
so the round is £53.00

A dressed 50kg neck shot Fallow @2.80 (do the maths) less the £3.00 round. No contest.

 

[Tim.243]

1 way around that, use 1 rifle then 1 zero check simple as that.

Snap....like having xl gloves Lee they fit every one.

 

[wytonpjs]

Snap....like having xl gloves Lee they fit every one.

 

[slider]

I hear what you say but roe taken with DDM incur a carcass fee of £7 so its near £10 a roe for me. However, as you know, I provided breakdowns of carcasses before and its not impossible to recoup well over a £100 from a carcass that size. Last roe I did made £110, the one before £129.

Now what ****es me off is going to the range and expending rounds zeroing - I've just juggled scopes and QD mounts across 3 rifles so I have 6 combinations to do next time - that's going to be painful

I butcher and sell all my deer myself. All sold very locally and reckon I turn the average roe in to £80+. virtually all shot is commercial forestry in the Scottish Borders so 12/13kg is about the mark

Absolutely agree with the last point. Ran my T3 with the DNT Zulus through a mates Chrono the other day to fine tune the ballistic calculator (4 shots) then a four shot "one shot zero" - £32 gone!