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To: archy
Hi Archy. First, thanks!

I have a 22 inch barrel on my Savage 111F. All of the ammo I currently have is winchester super x. I have several boxes each of 150, 165, and 180. It doesn't say if the bullets are boat tails but they are soft point.

Another question if you don't mind. What is the typical powder load (graines) in these? It is not listed on the boxes or sites like Remington that I can find.

85 posted on 12/11/2006 7:14:37 AM PST by Hazcat (Live to party, work to afford it.)
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To: Hazcat
have a 22 inch barrel on my Savage 111F. All of the ammo I currently have is winchester super x. I have several boxes each of 150, 165, and 180. It doesn't say if the bullets are boat tails but they are soft point.

It depends a good deal on what critter you figure on shooting, but for deer I think I'd go with the 150 grain loads, and sight in at 25 yards. At that range, the point of impact will be very close to what it'll also be at about 250, the reason the Army uses 25-yard/1000 inch zeroing targets. You'll be about an inch or two high at 100 yards, and the point of impact may drop nearly that at 300, but it should certainly get you to the point where you can keep 5-shot groups within a six-inch circle at any distance from 25 to 300 yards, assuming you and your rifle can shoot that well, and your ammunition remains consistant. Not that for decades, the Army stuck with the 150-grain bullet for the .30-06, using the boattailed heavier 168 and 172 grain bullets for long-range [600-yard] match ammo and plunging fire from belt-fed machineguns.

But whether your individual rifle happens to perform best with 150, 165, or 180-grain bullets, I'd find out which and then stick with it- unless you get involved with bear or moose, or the like.

Another question if you don't mind. What is the typical powder load (graines) in these?

It varies with the manufacturer and bullet weight, of course. But my match load for my granddad's M1903 match Springfield [24-inch barrel] used around 55 grains of IMR 4350 powder behind a 155-grain Nosier hollowpoint boattail match bullet, at about for 2,700-2750 fps.

88 posted on 12/11/2006 7:38:55 AM PST by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
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