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have you tried RL22 with the 95 BT? I run mine with 42 grains behind it, bad medicine if you're a deer.
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I do believe I have unraveled at least part of the mystery.... After getting such exceptional accuracy with it under the 85s and thinking through Keith's comment that I'd merely not found the right load I tested 100 gr CLs w/ RL17 and VOILA!!
Hopin like crazy the same thing happens with the 95 gr NBTs!!!! Good deal- I kind of figured you might! Good job. Nothing wrong with 100 grain corelokts. Still a bit surprised it was so finicky- aren't you?
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Oh heck yeah I'm shocked. Never had such amazing disparities between powders... RL19 & Hunter were literally TURKEY LOAD PATTERNS rather than groups! The yesterday all of a sudden...
Both loads that shoot are a couple grains off max loads of RL17 in Win cases sparked by RPLRs.
I'll keep the RL22 in the back of my mind for future reference; that'd be nice as I don't have other rifles that like 17 but have 2 that love 22.
Thanks again all!
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I haven't tried the 95 nbt, but my Stevens .243 didn't like 100 grain hornadys all that well until I tried h4831 and rl22. Both those powders are substantially more accurate with that bullet than h4350, ramshot hunter, or rl19. If I get around to trying the 95 nbt, h4831 will be the first I try with rl22 getting a shot if the h4831 doesn't work.
If you really want to use that rl17, I would try an 80 grain barnes ttsx. You should be able to get them at or above 3400 fps. With any accuracy, that would be a helluva deer load.
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I have killed a few hundred animals up to pigs in the 250 pound range but that was in the 70's so my experience is only valid if they haven't changed the bullet construction.
My error. Checked my notes and it was the Sierra 85gn HPBT "not" the "Speer".
John.
Last edited by AussieGunWriter; 09/30/12.
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I tried the Sierra 85 btsp in my Savage 110 rifle chambered in 243 Win. The bullet was reasonably accurate (Hornady 100 gr interlock soft point was superior). Our deer in Tennessee are of the Virginia type averaging from 100 to 150 lbs. The bullet killed deer with the longest distance being 150 yards. The bullet made mush of the lung area but did not hold together. Fragmentation disappointed me and I went back to 100gr sp. The deer were just as dead and did not run any farther using the Sierra bullet. Just my preferance for a bullet to hold together. That's what that 85g hpbt Sierra is suppose to do...fragment. It does kill but you get alot of meat damage also.
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