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Well it would take going out to the property and setting up in the same place I would be hog hunting. And when I go out there I usually just hunt. I generally keep my shots under 250 yards. Using .300 as a BC the bullet will still be going over 1900 fps at that distance when started around 2600fps. That BC is a low ball guestimate. I have read that it was actually .322, Out of my 22 inch barreled .223 bolt gun I can see getting a starting velocity of over 2800 fps using LVR, maybe a bit better than that. This speed would give a bit more than 1900 fps at 300 yards. Loading up 40 to use this summer on targets of opportunity.Thanks for posting that, interesting stuff.
I'm curious how those would do at 300+ yards. I thought those would work really well, but their BCs were so much lower than what Speer says (in my testing, anyway), I thought that they might not have enough velocity to expand much at 300 or further out. Any chance you can whack those jugs at 300, or 350 yards and see what happens?
Muzzle velocity from my 16" barreled 22 ARC using some pulldown military powder. Certain I can get an easy 100-150 more fps using BLC2 or LVR. But it is a tight shooting load and for my use it gives enough velocity as is to do what I will ask of it. Impact velocity is just over 2300 fps.Very cool--was the 2640 the impact velocity or the muzzle velocity?
A G1 of .30 is right about what I got, so your guestimate is spot on from what I've seen. From a 16" barrel, I also figured out to 250 yards would work okay, but I occasionally have shots another 100 or so yards out so I was wondering how it would actually do at those velocities.Well it would take going out to the property and setting up in the same place I would be hog hunting. And when I go out there I usually just hunt. I generally keep my shots under 250 yards. Using .300 as a BC the bullet will still be going over 1900 fps at that distance when started around 2600fps. That BC is a low ball guestimate. I have read that it was actually .322, Out of my 22 inch barreled bolt gun I can see getting a starting velocity of over 2800 fps using LVR, maybe a bit better than that. This speed would give a bit more than 1900 fps at 300 yards. Loading up 40 to use this summer on targets of opportunity.
I am at the point I realize I don't "have" to pull the trigger not to mention in the mesquite flats I hunt seeing past 200 yards is impossible and 150 yards is most of the time impossible. Add a foot or more of grass height and the low hanging limbs of the average mesquite you have maybe 24 inches between the top of the grass and limbs. Where the hogs are usually shot are along the edges of corn or maize fields and in the brush down to the creek. I'd say moving and at less than 75 yards is my most common shot at hogs. Deer the same but more often standing still. Before the corn or maize gets up the only long shot opportunities are coyotes in the winter fields. Even then I usually call them and shoot at less than 150 yards. For me the easy range of 250 yards is plenty.A G1 of .30 is right about what I got, so your guestimate is spot on from what I've seen. From a 16" barrel, I also figured out to 250 yards would work okay, but I occasionally have shots another 100 or so yards out so I was wondering how it would actually do at those velocities.
FWIW, in the limited BC testing I've done, Hornady and Sierra BCs have been pretty much spot on relative to what they claim (often a little higher, if anything). Speer have ranged from about 70% to 87% of their claimed BC.