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62 because I think it penetrates the deepest (that's what she said) and has the highest BC.

But I have only witnessed the use of the 62. I'm still burning through the rest of my 53's and 55's. I over bought...



Travis

It's a 600 that started life as a .243. As it sits in the pics it's got a 23" Douglas #3, 1 in 8 twist, in 22-250ai, Mcmillan Remington Hunter stock, Burris FFII 3-9 Tactical. It shot a number of loads well and darn close POI, but I basically had 2 loads for it. 75 gr amax's going 3350, and the 62 gr ttsx's going a bit over 3500.

I've since rebarreled to a saami 22-250, same twist, same barrel contour. I'm getting the same speeds with amax's and a little better actually with the ttsx's. I swapped the scope to a Bushnell 10X. Same stock though. Basically same gun just with a different scope. I went with the saami chamber because the ai brass would hang up in the reciever where the left bolt lug rides. Saami brass has enough taper that doesn't happen.

Thanks,
That's a nice rifle for sure.
I have a #4 lilja 8 twist waiting in the wings when torch the 12 twisted tube on my 22-250. Although The BC sucks I have been running 63 sierras out of it at 3425 and it swats deer quite nicely.

Chrome - mind sharing the load you're shooting out of your SPS Tactical with the 65 grain Sierra Game King? If not the load, then at least the powder? I have the same rifle and just picked up a couple hundred of the 65 grain Sierras at a local shop on the way home tonight. My 11 year loves shooting that rifle and I'm hoping to put him (and likely myself) on some whitetails with the 65s in a few weeks.

I'm not chrome, but if you have TAC, Varget, or 335 laying around, you'll find something good without much effort.

Or Benchmark. Or any of the 4895s. Or RE15. Or about any powder with those approximate burn rates. 223s generally aren't real picky.

Yeah, but one of those powders will probably shoot a single 3-shot group will all the holes touching, and we all know one-hole accuracy is necessary for killing deer!

Haha. Yep! If you can't brag on the internet, what's the point?

Not only that, but from then on it will be a "quarter inch rifle."

I get a kick when folks will try a dozen different powder combinations to find that single 1/2" three shot group, but when asked if they shot multiple groups with the good load, or even a single five shot group, shooting any more rounds suddenly becomes a waste of ammo.

Not Chrome, but I put that bullet over 27 grains of Varget in Rem cases with a CCI 400 primer and a COAL .010 short of what will work in an AR mag (I think 2.250 w/o looking it up.) It shoots bug holes out of a 9 twist 700 Remmie XCR/CTR as well as some other rifles with 7 and 8 twists. This is a compressed load, powder comes a little way up the case neck. It chronographs right around 3000 fps.

Bullets and guns aside Ingwe, I like the camo you guys are wearing...

Here is a wealth of info on the 223 for deer, lol: http://www.tndeer.com/tndeertalk/ub...;page=1&fpart=all&gonew=1#UNREAD

JFC, there's a big pile of stupid on that forum.

Dude, they are going too fast to expand and they can be deflected by limbs and they don't have knock down and you can't make bad shots with them while still killing the deer..........

I'm liking the way my handloaded 64gr Winchester Power point shoot, but haven't tried them on a whitetail yet. Does anyone know if the bullet in the 62gr Federal fusion load is available as a component?

Got to talking to a Sierra rep on the phone and he was saying that the game kings compare nicely to any premium bonded bullet. But I never heard anyone say that a gameking is in the league with premium bonded bullets.

I've had good results with it too and the Winchester 64 grain PP as well.

65grn Sierra. After I found a load I went to the Sedalia factory and bought 2 lbs out of a 55 gallon drum. Should have bought more. Ruger American rifle.











75grn Amax is also nice for 3 shots.

Old thread but a good yarn...

The 75g Hornady BTHP Match has worked well for me on feral goats. I've also tested it in wet newspaper alongside the 65g SGK, 55g SGK and a small handful of others.

The 75 BTHP penetrates about 4 inches into the newspaper like a knitting needle, then it expands very rapidly and leaves a huge wound channel. It's done the same thing on goats for me.

In the wet newspaper test it out penetrated the 65g SGK by a very large margin, and caused similar - if deeper - "wounding". Not sure if newspaper can be wounded though...


For bulk buying and bulk general purpose shooting I quite like the 55g SGK which are available here in bulk Super Roo packs of 1000. But the 75g Hdys can be bought fairly cheaply too.