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<blockquote data-quote="James Jones" data-source="post: 194174" data-attributes="member: 8843"><p>the Berger bullets in the heavier VLD styles will make a mess of a pelt as it is going to exit and if that thin jacket so much as come close to a bone its comming apart and gonna leave a big hole on the exit , for the very limited amout of pelt shooting I have done I have found that a hyper velocity very small bullet does the best job as they don't exit the vast majority of the time ,in the 22-250 a 4o gr V-max at 4200fps does a great job , the 55gr Ballistic tip out of a 243 at 4000+fps would also work very well but it might exit and if it does their no sense in even thinking about patching that up. On the total other end of the spectrum a good solid bullet works also as it does exit but leaves a small hole , the down side to this is that the animal generaly runns off a ways before dieing.</p><p> </p><p>I know a couple guys that are professional pelt hunters and both use 17 cal wildcat round running bullet out at 4K+ , the new 204 Ruger would also be a decient choice.</p><p> </p><p>All in all , If it were me I would get a 22-250 Ackley , 1-10 twist , that would allow you to shoot up to the 69gr Nosler custom competition bullets and at this round velocity you could play on paper/small varmints to 800+yds and the twist will allow you to shoot the light weight varmint pills realy fast , the 50gr Ballistic tip run out at 3900fps will flatten a coyote at 500yds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jones, post: 194174, member: 8843"] the Berger bullets in the heavier VLD styles will make a mess of a pelt as it is going to exit and if that thin jacket so much as come close to a bone its comming apart and gonna leave a big hole on the exit , for the very limited amout of pelt shooting I have done I have found that a hyper velocity very small bullet does the best job as they don't exit the vast majority of the time ,in the 22-250 a 4o gr V-max at 4200fps does a great job , the 55gr Ballistic tip out of a 243 at 4000+fps would also work very well but it might exit and if it does their no sense in even thinking about patching that up. On the total other end of the spectrum a good solid bullet works also as it does exit but leaves a small hole , the down side to this is that the animal generaly runns off a ways before dieing. I know a couple guys that are professional pelt hunters and both use 17 cal wildcat round running bullet out at 4K+ , the new 204 Ruger would also be a decient choice. All in all , If it were me I would get a 22-250 Ackley , 1-10 twist , that would allow you to shoot up to the 69gr Nosler custom competition bullets and at this round velocity you could play on paper/small varmints to 800+yds and the twist will allow you to shoot the light weight varmint pills realy fast , the 50gr Ballistic tip run out at 3900fps will flatten a coyote at 500yds. [/QUOTE]
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