Originally Posted by AussieGunWriter
Originally Posted by cra1948
I shoot 400 grain Speers over 55 grains of Varget in Starline cases and a CCI 200 primer in my Marlin. Accurate, packs a wallop at both ends. I am going to go to a milder load when I have time to work at it a little.


I shot hundreds of animals with that bullet and it is paper thin in the jacket and too light for any dangerous game. I would also recommend loading it back to about 1600fps to maintain integrity. At 1900fps it opens too much and loses penetration, at 2400fps it often dissapears in a puff of blue smoke and never reaches the target.

JW

The older version of that bullet was soft and would often lose the jacket on deer, but the core would always shoot through. The newer ones seem to be considerably tougher and I think Speer has indicated that they are (although I'm not sure about that.)


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