I've tried numerous loads in my Windham Weaponry Varmint exterminator barrel with 55 grain V-Max and 68 Grain HPBT. This gun does not like them pushed fast. Right now the load is 23 grains H322 for both bullets. Both shoot one hole at that level.
I don't know, maybe the 1-8 twist is not good for the 55, who knows? Maybe it's something I'll never know. The barrel just doesn't like a faster load.
So I looked up the drop on the load at 3100 fps and 3300 fps. The drop is 1.8 inches more for the 3100fps than for the 3300fps at 300 yards. If that would cause a miss, given it's a known value, then that's not really the cause. My shooting would be the cause. And the 3100fps load will kill a woodchuck or coyote just as fast as the 3300fps load.
A consistent known is the thing here, heck, I've killed bunches at 300 and much farther with a 222 in the past.
It's weird, it works, run with it. I would have never figured on H322 as the load, I tried it on a whim.
Last edited by Armednfree; 05/22/17.
