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200 grain partition for 30-06
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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 2063349" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>I don't worry about making the 200 grain Gameking into a barn-burner in a 30-06. If you run the ballistics on this bullet at 8000 to 9000 feet of altitude, you find it shoots about as flat as a 180 grain bullet from a 300 WSM at sea level when launched at 2600fps to 2650fps. It is flat enough and retains enough energy and penetration to kill elk at or beyond 500 yards. The mass of the bullet means it will still penetrate bone and heavy hide at that distance. Velocity is still high enough for the Speer or the Sierra to open up and create a good wound channel. Both bullets drop about 55 inches at 500 yards and both are still over 2,000fps. I shot a couple of antelopes in 2019 with the Sierra 200gr in two different -06's using Shepherd scopes and both were over 200 yards. Exit wounds were about the size of a silver dollar. Group sizes were a little over 1.5 inches at 200 yards for 5 shots. That works for me. I was using IMR 4350 and data from older manuals, which haven't had the benefit of input from Hodgden's newer lawyers, so I get a little more than they list now for the powder and bullet combination.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 2063349, member: 60453"] I don't worry about making the 200 grain Gameking into a barn-burner in a 30-06. If you run the ballistics on this bullet at 8000 to 9000 feet of altitude, you find it shoots about as flat as a 180 grain bullet from a 300 WSM at sea level when launched at 2600fps to 2650fps. It is flat enough and retains enough energy and penetration to kill elk at or beyond 500 yards. The mass of the bullet means it will still penetrate bone and heavy hide at that distance. Velocity is still high enough for the Speer or the Sierra to open up and create a good wound channel. Both bullets drop about 55 inches at 500 yards and both are still over 2,000fps. I shot a couple of antelopes in 2019 with the Sierra 200gr in two different -06's using Shepherd scopes and both were over 200 yards. Exit wounds were about the size of a silver dollar. Group sizes were a little over 1.5 inches at 200 yards for 5 shots. That works for me. I was using IMR 4350 and data from older manuals, which haven't had the benefit of input from Hodgden's newer lawyers, so I get a little more than they list now for the powder and bullet combination. [/QUOTE]
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