Contrary to the main stream per usual...

for prairie dogs or ground hogs...

30 grains of RL 7, 52 HP Speer...

MVs in the 3650 fps range....( I could push faster, but this more than does the job..) the 52 HP Speer is both accurate and explosive...

using 30 grains of powder, it heats up less quickly and if you don't get out their and make the barrel hot enough to brand cattle... it will increase the barrel life, using a lot of other powders...

plus RL 7 is always accurate in about anything I use it in...

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