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Old 06-24-2021, 05:02 PM
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Default 32 V-max availability

Just as an fyi, Graf's and Powder Valley show 32 v-max boxes of 100 in stock, guessing Hornady just released a run.
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Old 06-25-2021, 04:52 PM
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Thanks for the info!

I'm fortunate in still having a stash of 33-grain 5mm VMax bullets that I bought before Hornady dropped a grain in that caliber for whatever reason they had. I use them in the tiny 5mm Remington Magnum case converted to centerfire, and they are gooood!
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Old 06-25-2021, 05:33 PM
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Thanks for the info!

I'm fortunate in still having a stash of 33-grain 5mm VMax bullets that I bought before Hornady dropped a grain in that caliber for whatever reason they had. I use them in the tiny 5mm Remington Magnum case converted to centerfire, and they are gooood!
They dropped the bullet weight by one grain in 2004 to get 4K fps velocity from the then-new 204 Ruger cartridge that they were helping to promote.

I too have a decent stash of the old 33 grain bullets and I shoot them in my Model 591 Schroeder conversion.

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Old 06-25-2021, 06:01 PM
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Thanks for that tidbit BCB! So they dropped a grain and got 4000fps. Ain't that something.

I was born a few years after the 220 Swift came out in, I believe, 1935 or so, and I grew up in the 1950s pining over the famous 4110fps factory velocity that gave it bragging rights as the the fastest round around. I believe Winchester used an odd-weight 48 grain bullet to achieve it. History repeats itself in many ways.

After I got big enough to own a .220 Swift, I bought a Ruger 77 medium-weight barrel and began loading for and shooting it. But by that time, I had matured and I never did strive for the 4000-plus bragging rights the gun was capable of achieving. Instead, I settled on 50-55 grain bullets that shot in the high 3000s and made me happy with great accuracy and high effectiveness on faraway varmints.

I never did find that exceeding 4000fps was worth anything of substance. But obviously Hornady did, and so it explains the lost grain.

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Old 06-25-2021, 06:59 PM
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I never did find that exceeding 4000fps was worth anything of substance. But obviously Hornady did, and so it explains the lost grain.

Life is funny sometimes.[/quote]

Hornady and other do it for marketing, for those that eat the FPS kool-aid, first, instead of accuracy first, with FPS being second.
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Old 06-25-2021, 07:49 PM
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RE: 4000+ fps muzzle velocity.........

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Hornady and other do it for marketing, for those that eat the FPS kool-aid, first, instead of accuracy first, with FPS being second.

Yupper. And they roam the prairie in large numbers.
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Old 06-25-2021, 09:04 PM
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I always considered the 33 gr bullet more accurate in most of my 20's. I believe the length of the bearing surface was shorten on the 32 gr which probably helped more than the 1 gr.
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Old 06-27-2021, 12:04 PM
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Default I still have a healthy supply of 33s

They are extremely accurate and are saved for my coyote and rock chuck loads.
The 33 is very devastating on rock chucks and coyotes don’t like em either
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