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Your Opinion: Hollow Points or Ballistic Tipped Rounds ?

  • 17-03-2010 08:38PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭


    What do you lads reckon is the best round for shooting foxes ? Hollow point, solid point or Ballistic tipped ?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Which ever round groups best out of your rifle. But, two rounds which group equally well then I would choose the ballistic tipped.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    like John says, whatever groups best, but if it's even enough, the ballistic tip. Never use FMJs; has to be expanding ammo for humanity's sake. All you need in a good fox bullet is something that expands well on impact or fragments well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭endasmail


    id go with the ballistic tipped
    they generally are a quality round


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭smokin ace


    i have used both ballistic hand hollow point and i find the ballistic tip a bit better bullet for a good clean kill and they give the better grouping for my gun you should get one box of each and try them out and then decide


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭clivej


    I was using the balistic tip V-Shok or V-Max 40gr or 55gr @€;28 a box. And very good to group to but as I doing a lot more range target plinking I started the to use the American Eagle HP 55gr. They are grouping as well as the balistic tip but are only €11.50-€13 a box so I can get twice as many for the price of the balistictips.

    So first find out what shoots the best from your gun and then decide.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    a 90gr TNT loaded hot in the .270 is unbelievably flat shooting out to 400yds ,possibly the best varmint round iv used.

    the vmax 110gr is also savage.

    70gr B TIP in the 243 is also brillant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    jwshooter wrote: »
    a 90gr TNT loaded hot in the .270 is unbelievably flat shooting out to 400yds ,possibly the best varmint round iv used.

    the vmax 110gr is also savage.

    70gr B TIP in the 243 is also brillant.

    I see Norma are now loading a 75gr V-max in the .243. Had any experience of that yet?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    I see Norma are now loading a 75gr V-max in the .243. Had any experience of that yet?

    no have not used them ,IWM .

    do they do one in the 25,06 ? . the last calf i shot this year was 40ish yards in the but of the ear with the 110gr vmax i had to drag it by the back legs .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    jwshooter wrote: »
    no have not used them ,IWM .

    do they do one in the 25,06 ? . the last calf i shot this year was 40ish yards in the but of the ear with the 110gr vmax i had to drag it by the back legs .

    No, they don't seem to make anything for a .25-06. Not a common calibre on the continent it seems. Would consider re-barrelling to .270 down the line for ammo selection and availability's sake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    No, they don't seem to make anything for a .25-06. Not a common calibre on the continent it seems. Would consider re-barrelling to .270 down the line for ammo selection and availability's sake.

    when i shot out my 25 i was going to rebarrel for another , steve kershaw talked me out of it ,glad he did now.
    good to be using a 270 again .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    jwshooter wrote: »
    when i shot out my 25 i was going to rebarrel for another , steve kershaw talked me out of it ,glad he did now.
    good to be using a 270 again .

    Aye, it's just that bit more versatile. I love the .25-06, but getting ammo is a pain, and the .270 does pretty much exactly the same job, but with just a pinch more bullet, which I think is about perfect, certainly for here and the UK. My current dilemma is whether to get a .270 and a .300 win, or a .30-06 and lose out on the varminting capabilities of the .270 and smaller. I think it'll be the former in the end tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    Aye, it's just that bit more versatile. I love the .25-06, but getting ammo is a pain, and the .270 does pretty much exactly the same job, but with just a pinch more bullet, which I think is about perfect, certainly for here and the UK. My current dilemma is whether to get a .270 and a .300 win, or a .30-06 and lose out on the varminting capabilities of the .270 and smaller. I think it'll be the former in the end tbh.

    one gun .

    30,60 sako 75.

    norma make a 110gr vmax now ,:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    jwshooter wrote: »
    one gun .

    30,60 sako 75.

    norma make a 110gr vmax now ,:D

    I'm currently liking the idea of a .270 Sako 75 and tracking down a .300 win mag Sako 75. :D

    If it had to be one only though, it'd be a .30-06.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    vixdname wrote: »
    What do you lads reckon is the best round for shooting foxes ? Hollow point, solid point or Ballistic tipped ?

    Long range tipped are best and they are a devastating round
    I use Hornady TAP .308 155grn and .223 hornady V-max moly 55grn

    Anything they hit are toast


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭ejg


    Foxes react fairly well to being shot by a centerfire. With any bullet.
    FMJ's or solid tips are a no no because the penetration is mostly so high that it only uses a small portion of it's energy before exiting out of the "smallish" fox.
    Between ballistic tipped or hollow points it's a toss up. They mostly work well if the speed is right for the bullet construction.
    Generally I found that the wounds on shot foxes are more consistent with hollow points than with ballistic tips. For example 55gr nos BT seemed to be very hot and cold. Sometimes a huge wound and the next time one gets a pencil through and a running fox.
    Best is to use what shoots most accurate in the rifle if choosing between BT or HP. Forget about a tiny bit of BC difference, tiny bit of speed difference or a few grains of bullet weight difference.
    edi


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