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SwedeSteve · 06-26-2008, 10:13 PM

Who has a M96 and a M38 and have developed a good hunting round out of both? My M38 load performs poorly in the M96.

SGRAVESOK · 06-27-2008, 11:44 AM

Swede, Here is a reply I got from a friend in Alabama about his M96. He has it scoped, but I think everything else is original. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to.
Sam

I'm shooting 45 grains of Hodgdon H4350 with a 140-grain Sierra boat-tail bullet. I think the muzzle velocity is 2,709 FPS. If you back down on the velocity, you might get a better group. But with a cool, clean barrel, I can put a quarter over my group. At 200 yards and in it absolutely expends every bit of energy inside the deer. I shot a doe through the shoulder and heart. It absolutely jellied everything in her chest cavity. The processor asked it I shot her with a 300 mag ballistic tip. At one time I had the
1936 Husquavarna swede with an aperture sight. It was deadly accurate witht he same bullet.

SwedeSteve · 06-27-2008, 02:07 PM

Thanks Okie !!

06-26-2008, 10:13 PM	#1
SwedeSteve Bullet Maintenance !! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The anchor point, Alaska Posts: 10,251 Images: 1	Swedes Who has a M96 and a M38 and have developed a good hunting round out of both? My M38 load performs poorly in the M96. __________________ Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for! -Will Rogers Last edited by SwedeSteve; 06-26-2008 at 10:22 PM.

06-27-2008, 02:07 PM	#3
SwedeSteve Bullet Maintenance !! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The anchor point, Alaska Posts: 10,251 Images: 1	Thanks Okie !! __________________ Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for! -Will Rogers

06-27-2008, 11:44 AM	#2
SGRAVESOK Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 59	Swede, Here is a reply I got from a friend in Alabama about his M96. He has it scoped, but I think everything else is original. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to. Sam I'm shooting 45 grains of Hodgdon H4350 with a 140-grain Sierra boat-tail bullet. I think the muzzle velocity is 2,709 FPS. If you back down on the velocity, you might get a better group. But with a cool, clean barrel, I can put a quarter over my group. At 200 yards and in it absolutely expends every bit of energy inside the deer. I shot a doe through the shoulder and heart. It absolutely jellied everything in her chest cavity. The processor asked it I shot her with a 300 mag ballistic tip. At one time I had the 1936 Husquavarna swede with an aperture sight. It was deadly accurate witht he same bullet.