40gr bullets in the 200

[Evan03]

just thought i do an update.

been loading for the 220 tried slew of difrent flavour 55gr bullets like bergers sierra and vmaxes. all these have been shooting plenty good.

however i was drawn to the velocities numbers useing 40gr bullets. i picked up some 40gr nosler bts and loaded them on top of h380 powder and win mag primers.

ounce i made it to test loads i quickly realized that 40gr bullets might be were i want to be with velocitiy number guestimated at over 4000 and groups smaller than the 55gr bullet loads.

this things shooting string tight and acurate with back to back 6grd groups till the barrles hot.

this got me contemplating 35gr vmaxes but i figure theres no reason to realy go there.

Evan

[Catfish]

Evan,
What are you going to be shooting with the lite bullets? They would do a good job on PD`s, but for coyotes ect., they probibly would not have the penitration for consistant kills. Also even though they start slower, the 55 gn. bullets will have a longer point blank range and they will also have less wind drift.

[Evan03]

Catfish

ive used both the 40gr and 55gr vmax on coyotes. i cant tell the difrince between them. i do know past 150yds bullets rarely exit and a re one shot flop kills. inside 150 and its bloody gory mess with both weight bullets.

the 40gr bullet will be used on yotes, ground squrels, badger, rock chucks, and maybe fox or bobcat if the opurtunity presents itself.

other than that its seems these days the 2506 and 100gr bullets fills most my coyote needs

i thought you were wrong about the 40s trajectory but you arent at 300yds theres only about a half inch difrence between the two wich is unoticable. then theres about a 100fps difrince at that range. 40gr is running at 2660 and the 55 is at 2550

but i feel the 40s are worthwhile for me because there printing very well. and i have over 200 of them. :)


so ounce again you are right ;)

Evan