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I had gotten some 35gr Vmax for my Hornet, but the performance in the wind was terrible. The 40gr Vmax or NBT work so much better, so I never used them in anything bigger.
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Like Dean2 said, the 35gr. Hornady Vmax is not good past about 150yards. My own hornet put them into 2 1/2" at 200 meters, but they were consistently 3/8" or tighter at 100 meters.
The 40gr. Vmax & 40gr. Ballistic Tips were super, right out to 400meters.
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My Rifle is and was a Sako L461, 14" twist.
Didn't have a chrono those days so no idea the velocity. Daryl: do you load that powder? OR anyone else with comparable rifle and loads I'd like to know what it was pushing. Strange thing though. Noslers orange tip 40 gr wouldn't make a group under 1 1/2". This was sorting thru 19 various bullets another member here and I came up with to test in the new barrel. C/L's 55gr was just over half inch, that's always been my main p/dog bullet. So I ordered another 5000 of 'em and 2000 40gr V'max. We had Bergers and just about every other brand, all 35-55gr. same load for all of them. Just changed bullets. To start with: 5 of each. IF they did well, I loaded ten of each of those and discarded the rest. When the 55gr C/L's and 35 & 40gr v'max proved so great a shooters. I loaded about 50 of each and we went to shooting. I've never learned what the term means: All Steve would ever say was "that shoots like a house afire". I still don't know what that means and Charlie used the term a few days ago. Tell me------:
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I am with you there. The 40 Vmax is where it's at with my Hornets. An easy 2900 fps with lilGun.
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Same here, around 2900fps, but with W296 and 40gr Vmax.
The Hornady 35gr Vmax factory ammo was 3250fps through my chronograph. |
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As previously mentioned, the VNE/Dogtown/Nosler 34g 22 cal.
At high velocities its got about a 300yd PBR for an 8" target, blows 'em up good, reasonably accurate, cheap. Add AA2200 and you got 4000+ fps out of a std 223 with little stress. Large meplat, no BC, loses velocity fast but its a laser flat trajectory to 250 yds, not a long range bullet. |
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George, my rifles for those bullets were Hornets and the .218Bee #1.
My .222 Sako particularly likes the VLC Barnes 40gr. with 2230 powder, at 3,540fps (or maybe 3,640fps, I don't remember which).
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I get great results with 40 gr bullets but haven't been thrilled with any of the 35 gr I've tried. |
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