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243 win with hornady 95gn sst
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<blockquote data-quote="westcliffe01" data-source="post: 777248" data-attributes="member: 35183"><p>Hornady are claiming 3185fps on their superformance load with the 95gr SST. I don't know if their test barrel is 24" long ?</p><p></p><p>I don't have a chrono and have been shooting 95gr Berger VLD's with a 41gr load of H100V Hodgdon powder to form it to my AI chamber in the new 26" Shilen 1:8 barrel. I had the rifle zeroed at 100yds and yesterday shot at 285 yards with a 6" drop. Ran the numbers today in the G7 calculator (50F ambient 1000ASL 80%RH) and it back calculated my velocity at 3400fps. That is just smoking... They are not even AI loads yet..</p><p></p><p>I have shot just under 3 boxes of the 95gr SST's and killed a pair of coyotes with them before I swapped my barrel for the shilen. The coyotes were at about 140 and 90 yards and they were a mess. At 140 yards it passed through both shoulders and liquified the heart and frontal part of the lungs. The one at 90 yards had his but to me, looking back for his buddy and the bullet severed his tail just under the skin and did not emerge from the front. About half the spine was just shrapnel.</p><p></p><p>We are not allowed to shoot deer with rifles here, so I can't comment on larger animals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westcliffe01, post: 777248, member: 35183"] Hornady are claiming 3185fps on their superformance load with the 95gr SST. I don't know if their test barrel is 24" long ? I don't have a chrono and have been shooting 95gr Berger VLD's with a 41gr load of H100V Hodgdon powder to form it to my AI chamber in the new 26" Shilen 1:8 barrel. I had the rifle zeroed at 100yds and yesterday shot at 285 yards with a 6" drop. Ran the numbers today in the G7 calculator (50F ambient 1000ASL 80%RH) and it back calculated my velocity at 3400fps. That is just smoking... They are not even AI loads yet.. I have shot just under 3 boxes of the 95gr SST's and killed a pair of coyotes with them before I swapped my barrel for the shilen. The coyotes were at about 140 and 90 yards and they were a mess. At 140 yards it passed through both shoulders and liquified the heart and frontal part of the lungs. The one at 90 yards had his but to me, looking back for his buddy and the bullet severed his tail just under the skin and did not emerge from the front. About half the spine was just shrapnel. We are not allowed to shoot deer with rifles here, so I can't comment on larger animals. [/QUOTE]
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