Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

pauly said
So question for the esteemed members here: I have my dad’s 1949 Remington 722 in .257 Roberts. It is equipped with a Redfield peep sight and I think I will stick with that. Since I have a Remington 700 Mountain Rifle also in .257 Roberts, I have the dies and everything to work up some loads for it. The question comes to what projectile should I use. Since most factory ammo was predominately soft point round nose bullets (Hornady), should I stick with more period correct bullet choices or use the modern offerings (I have Partitions, Sierra Pro-Hunters, Speer Grand Slams, Hornady SST, etc). Curious what your thoughts are as I plan on taking it to the woods a bit this coming fall.

I’ve had excellent luck with Hornady Interlock spitzer bullets and you can’t go wrong with the Partition. I wouldn’t hesitate to try a few of the modern bullets in the correct weight class for your barrel twist. The mono metal bullets are usually light for caliber to stay in the same twist range. You may get lucky and be able to use the same load in both rifles. I’m doing that in my kids 7-08rem rifles, but I use different head stamp brass in each of them but same die setup, bullet, and powder charge.