Originally Posted by cherryfarmer
Did you try the speer 220 flat base bullets and 4064 and if so did you have any luck with them? Since I have quite a few of these bullets on hand i am going to play with these first. Living in california we have to use lead free bullets. I have some barnes 200gr tsx for my 358 win so if I want to use this gun here I will have load them up.


I did use some of the 220 gr. Speers but with 3031 not 4064. Was totally unimpressed with them on several large feral hogs. Didn't even get an exit and one even got off the property. They were too soft at 2600 fps for large hogs and hard angles. But for deer they might be just fine, I quit using them after a few less than stellar experiences on the hogs and went back to 225 gr. Woodleigh RN's, 250 gr. Hornady RN's and the Speer 250's. My shooting is usually under 100 yards, often much closer than that. I should have run the Speer 220's at a slower speed and they might have worked better.

Dog I rescued in January

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