300 RUM....

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1911steelplate

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I wasn't a big fan until I found a Win model 70 with a wood stock and decided to try it. I've worked up a good hunting load and found it to be around 3/4 mos groups, from a bench with front bag. Anybody have good or bad experience with the rum hunting. Anybody got any good loads also? I've got two, 150gr bal tip and a 200gr. Both with H1000 powder.
 
My shooting buddy uses a rem700 chambered in 300RUM. He got a nice mulie last year with 180gr swift scirocco. He brought it out to the range last weekend and was shooting less than 3/4in groups with those loads. I'll have to ask what powder he's using.

I think the 300RUM is a great gun for hunting, it just doesn't lend itself to lots of shooting. Too much kick for me, and I just about died when he said he only gets 70 some loads out of a pound of powder!
 
One of the few commercial cartridges I have never owned. Have the .300 WBY and a wildcat equivalent of the .30-378 is the only reason I have never bought a .300 RUM.
 
I had one few years back was factory rifle good accuracy filled one bull tag then sold it. I use Retumbo (94gr) and IMR-7828 (88gr) with 180gr partition
and used Nosler loading data.

Nothing wrong with it at the time was shooting more 30 cal mag and when I cut back I sold that rifle and 30-378Wby.
 
Note that a .300 RUM shooting any given bullet will perform identical on game to any other cartridge shooting the same bullet out at the same speed. Game's killed with bullets, not cartridges, as far as I know. Unless one chooses to carry a 6-pound 40mm Bofors heavy anti-aircraft machine gun round and walking up to a deer and when it's swung like a baseball bat, its projectile smacks that buck upside its head; then that cartridge would probably kill a deer.
 
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I'm intrigued by that cartridge. It seems to be the most affordable "monster magnum". The thing is I already have a plain old .300 win mag and a very tight budget so no RUM for me, although as a relatively new reloader I have had zero luck with getting .300 win mag brass, but whenever i go to cabelas or anywhere like that there's tons of .300 RUM brass in stock, so maybe its not such an impractical idea (would never pay for factory ammo in that chamberings though). Only thing is its remington brass which in my very limited experience has been disappointing (neck splits). When you consider how much everything associated with enjoying your rifle costs, do you feel that the satisfaction derived justifies the cost? I am seriously considering getting one of these someday down the road. Sorry I can't help with the load data search.
 
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