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Interceptor_Knight wrote:
You must be fortunate enough to have larger open fields to shoot across. Except for maybe punching paper at the range, I have never been able to justify getting any of the light and fast rounds. .223 does the job forsmall critters at the ranges I shoot them. One of these days I will pick up a new rifle in .204 or .22-250.
I regularly shoot at 300 yds at the Boulder Junction gun-club range, thenin fallI take off thetarget scope, drop on a 3x9, and load with Barnes XLC copper (blue coating) hollow-points that weigh53 grains. I am interested in their newest polymer tipped round, but they do not have it in that caliber. The Hornady tipped rounds are highly frangible, I would not feel confident with them penetrating enoughin deer sized game, Especually if you catch a bone on the way in.
I have taken many deer with the barnesround, And only had 1 pass-thru shot. (A neck shot) The deer drop like a bag of potatoes from that light zippy little bullet, and itdoes not leave a complete mess inside of the deer. Most of my deer shots are well under 100 yards due to the terrain up here. But if a 300+ yard shot presented itself, I would be confident in both the round and my aim.
In the next week or so,I hope to see how my jacketed target round does on Coyotes (52 grain Jacketed speerHPBT) I think atthat velocity it might spin the jacket right off the lead core. I have seen that happen, but not out of my rifle. It leaves a gray streak downrange when it happens, just like a contrail.
One other round I am curious to try, take 30-06 brass , and load a .224 diameter barnes solid bullet in it with a plastic sabot to make up for the size difference. That should be a real ripper. I wonder how fast I could push it without it tumbling? It would give me a chance to shoot my 30-06 more if it worked well. My gun dealer has the correct sized sabots in stock for it. (I think it wouldmake ituntraceable with no rifling marks on the bullet??) Anyone else every try sabot rounds in rifles?
My shoulders are wrecked, sotaking a beating from .30 cal or larger is too darn painful for me without usinga wussie-bag between my shoulder and the stock.