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Old 03-17-2019, 09:34 PM
Wolfram Malukker Wolfram Malukker is offline
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Default Speer 46gr "Bee" bullets

While shopping at Grafs, I picked up a box of these quite inexpensively to make up the 50$ minimum order. They're Speer #1024, the .224" 46gr FNSP they say is for the .218 Bee cartridge.

I plan to run them in my .357-magnum based wildcat, for small game hunting. I am looking for the design impact velocity for good expansion with minimal fragmentation.

Does anyone have experience with these? The wildcat case is essentially a rimmed .221 Fireball, only a few thousandths fatter at the base and 1.290" long instead of 1.4". Capacity is essentially 20gr of water, averaging all my formed but unfired cases. Barrel is a 1-12 twist, so these should be OK I'd hope-or are they too fragile and explode if I run them too fast?
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Old 03-18-2019, 01:05 AM
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I shoot them in a Browning 53 in 218 Bee. I cant say for sure but if your looking to save game animals for the table I think your going to have to use head shots. They do a job on gophers out to 80-100 yards. After that the front bead covers to much to sight precisely. My impression is you'll need to down load to get controlled expansion instead of fragmentation. Good Luck
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Old 03-18-2019, 01:09 AM
Wolfram Malukker Wolfram Malukker is offline
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I was afraid of that. At least I'll not start pushing these 3000FPS+ thinking they'll hold up.
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Old 03-20-2019, 12:06 AM
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I ran those 33gr.(I thought) Speer Bee bullets to 3,800fps in my Ruger #1 and they shot poorly, overt an inch but did not explode on the way to the target.
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