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The 400gn Speer with the paper thin jacket would often disappear in a puf of blue smoke before reaching to 100 yard target when driven at 2900fps.
John
I'll bet that was an awesome blue haze to behold…400 grains of shmokin'!
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We don't have ground hogs and weren't allowed to shoot the 'roos's off the range so made our own entertainment.
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Bob
All true.
I used to blow bullets up with the .460 that were designed for the .45/70.
The 400gn Speer with the paper thin jacket would often disappear in a puf of blue smoke before reaching to 100 yard target when driven at 2900fps.
John That must be your varminting load, huh? Getting her tuned up for the PD shoot? I can't speak to dinky bullets for deer that are the size and weight of a Yugo. I can't speak to that Speer 400 grain at 2900, other than OUCH! I have seen enough of the twist-rate and rotational velocity phenomenon that I've come to accept that it has an evidentiary basis in fact, and is part of the bullet performance "equation". And I've seen the aftermath of a grinder wheel that gave way. Like a bomb went off.
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My varmint load was the 300gn Hornady loaded to 3,000fps. Smashed bones like a sack of nuts and bolts and DRT was usual.
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My varmint load was the 300gn Hornady loaded to 3,000fps. Smashed bones like a sack of nuts and bolts and DRT was usual. That 300 Hornady was designed for the magnum 45 cals, was it not? A lighter bullet option for thin-skinned game? Edited to add: I think I'm thinking of the 350...
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My varmint load was the 300gn Hornady loaded to 3,000fps. Smashed bones like a sack of nuts and bolts and DRT was usual. That 300 Hornady was designed for the magnum 45 cals, was it not? A lighter bullet option for thin-skinned game? Edited to add: I think I'm thinking of the 350... Yes you are. The 300gn was a flat tipped hollow point. Although not designed for the magnum cases or velocities, it is still a felatively large chunk of bullet to absorb.
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