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I've got a buddy who I have set up with a cardboard box full of loose 95NBT hand loads. He has been using them exclusively on his family farm for everything from crop damage deer to ground hogs. He wants a batch of "juicers" to cut ground hogs in half. What bullets do you guys like, assuming 243 win velocities.

I've got a good selection of appropriate powders.

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I used a bunch of the 70gr TNT for what you describe; they worked very well and were pretty accurate. They don't have a sexy high b.c. value, but are good shooters.

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55 ballistic tips will make him grin..... grin


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Well 42.5 grains of 4064, and a 75 grain HP, from Speer or Sierra..

will certainly give one a split personality pretty darn quick...


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58 gr Vmax

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70 or 80 grain Ballistic Tip would be my choice.

Any of the 75 HP bullets would be dandy as well assuming you can find them. An 87 grain V-Max might be spectacular as well, any of the lighter V-Maxs may just get inside and blow up, no exit at all so no nice explosions!!

A Sierra Blitz Varminter in 80 grain form would be good too.


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55gr nolser b tips starting load of bl-c2 runs 3834 rpm out of my rem 770. shoots 3in high at 100yars dead on at 300

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55 nbts


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Just loaded up some 70gr Varmageddons. I'll let you know.


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I have been using 55 grain BT's, and 58 grain Vmax over Varget. The Vmax seems to be more destructive, than the BT, the BT is a little faster (4,000 FPS). I have taken coyotes out to 300 yards with the Vmax, it flattens them. Both have been very accurate.

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Originally Posted by Pappy348
Just loaded up some 70gr Varmageddons. I'll let you know.


I've bought a fair number of those from Nosler's Shooters Pro Shop...

You should like those quite a bit...

accurate on top of being "deadly"....

It sure messes up rock chucks...the western version of ground hogs.


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Tell him to check out Shootersproshop. Good odd there will be some great 6mm bullets for cheap listed there.


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Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Tell him to check out Shootersproshop. Good odd there will be some great 6mm bullets for cheap listed there.



+1

Especially these:
95 grain NBT


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