My other rifle for the big stuff was my Featherweight Winchester in 7mm mag I could link every shot at 100m and was less than 1/2 minute angle at 200 which I had it at 1 inch high at 200m I was able to x hair animals out to 400m and drop them easy from memory the rounds were 140gr spear point and 56grs of 2209 dupont I think it was. I fitted it out with a 3-9 x 50 Leupold VX111, when I sold it back to gun city I put a couple of target shots with it, it sold before days end. before it would shoot I bedded the action in devcon crowned her and got a turn and 1/2 out of the barrel to the action, my hand loads were breach fitted to the case

 

enny meeney miinney mo again

 

was his gun a norinco or cheap chinese gun? they had problems with them because the barnaul primer was a bit harder than normal and the norincos firing pin was soft so lots of misfires, dsame as the wolf ammo but that stuff was shet. thats the only problem that i have heard of so far..........

Regarding Barnaul ammo, I am using the 55gn soft point and getting the same results on the bench rest as Remmington 55gn SP.

One of my hunting mates is in pest control, so far he's put over 5000 rounds of Barnual through his Weatherby Vanguard 223 with no problems so far.

 

Cheers