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Shooting a new Speer test bullet at 100 grains during the cull hunt, I was assigned to a tower stand on a very wide open trail that was boarded by heavy pine forest, and then given a list of what to take and exactly where to place the shots. In all cases the .243 out to 235 ranged yards did a good job of cleanly taking my test subject with single well-placed shots. Shooting involved right angle vital shooting, sharp angle shots from back to front, and head-on shooting for vital penetration testing. Special metal-sensing systems used in detecting land mines (no, I’m not kidding) were employed to locate bullets that had not passed through the targets.

That deer shoot had been the official type event, but then I headed back to South Dakota and a few other states, hunting on my own for some detailed review time with the .25 WSSM and .25-06 Remington. With a buck license on a wide-open prairie unit and a second doe tag as well, I went to work with my Model 70 Winchester chambered in .25 WSSM. The bullet was the 110-grain Accu Bond in a Winchester factory wrapper. Bullet choice was Winchester factory or handloads, due in fact to the cartridge being loaded only by Winchester at the time of that test shooting. Federal was making brass for a period of time, or at least some of it crossed my reloading dies with their headstamp on them, but the WSSM line in all calibers is a exclusive product of the Winchester folks.