Gettin' another urge

[royinidaho]

Anyone with experience with a .19 Calhoun?

Its either a Copper in that or a Rem 700 in 17 REM. Here I go again

[Catfish]

Roy,
I was fighting that urge acouple years ago. I really liked the looks of the .19 Calhoon, but then they made the .20 cal. into a factory round and there are so many people makeing bullets for it, and only James makeing .19 cal. bullets, I went with the .204. I already have 3 different .17 cal. rounds, the .17 Rem., the .17-223 and a .17 AH. For here in Oh. the .17 AH. is my favorite, but I think it`s alittle lite for coyotes past 200 yrds., even though it shoots flat to abt.290 yrds. The .17 Rem. is a real good round and so is the .17-223, but the .17-223 is just a hair less than the Rem., and you have to form your own brass. I bought the one I have because I found it cheap and I din`t mind makeing my own brass.
If you get a .19 Calhoon it won`t be worth much when you go to sell it, I would recomand eather the .17 Rem. or the .204 Ruger. Right now I`m giveing the edge to the .204, but I`m still forming brass for mine and haven`t drawn blood with it yet.

[shooterjon]

I went through the same thought process when I was looking for a new rifle with a NEED FOR speed as my objective .I settled on the 204 Rugar after considering the 17 rem and the 223/19 Calhoun because the speed was there and the 40 grain bullet has what I believe is more knock down power than the others . Finally I didn't have to mess with reforming brass.seems logical?

[Minihuntur]

Everyone wants a 4000+fps caliber but noooooooo, no one would ever consider the humble .243 Win w/ 55 grain bullets. Why? What about other .24s like the .240 Wby, 6mm Rem, or .243 Ackley Improved? These are plenty fast enough for vamint hunting and super flat shooting. Not to dis the fast .17s, .20s, or .22s but these 6mms are just as fast and have bigger, harder hitting bullets.
Minihuntur

[Catfish]

Minihuntur,
When looking for a good long range round speed is not the only thing I look at. The biggest thing is the BC of the bullet and while you can get very high speeds with with the round and bullets you named the BC`s of the bullets you chose really stink. That means they not only loose their velosity very fast, but that they will also drift more in the wind. My latest long range rifle is a .22-6mm. With it I`m pushing an 80 gn. .22 cal. bullet at abt 3,470 fps. No where near the 4,000 fps., but with it`s high BC it will shoot alot flatter than a .243 with a 55 gn. bullet, will drift alot less, and hit alot harder when it gets there. I built it for a long range coyote rifle. So far I`ve only taken 1 with it and it was only 350 yrds, but if the wind is calm, and I can get the coyote to stand still long enough to get off a shot, ( big if`s) I should have no trouble killing them to 800 yrds. , yes I use a lazer because without one there is no gun that will shoot flat enough to be good at that range guessing yardage.

[BILLY D.]

Originally posted by royinidaho
Anyone with experience with a .19 Calhoun?

Its either a Copper in that or a Rem 700 in 17 REM. Here I go again

Me does. I have the 19 Calhoon and the 19 Badger. They sent a lot of Gophers to the "Grasspatch In the Sky". Worst groups fireforming were .7's @ 150 yds.

Small amounts of powder and good velocity. I liked them so much I'm having 19-223 made as we speak for a switch barrel on my Savage. Now I know you can't possibly hit anything with a Savage rifle and Nikon glass.

One negative you will hear is the lack of 19 Caliber bullets. BS. Corbin makes a Swage to reduce the size of 20 cal bullets. The only thing you won't get is Jim Calhoons proprietary bullet coating. Last I looked though when I drove over to Havre was that Jim looked mighty healthy to me.

You can reach him at his web site http://www.jamescalhoon.com.

The test figures he gives practically mirrored my experiments.

And now my Ruger 204 sits in the cabinet gathering dust.

Best wishes, Bill