Using a decent load is more important than keeping the noise down for neighbors. Hunting deer with a subsonic 55 gr bullet is unethical. Since I am the only one who seems bothered. I’m new to casting, not shooting and or hunting. You should give people a little more credit before you make too many assumptions. It actually worked really well with a through and through to the neck. If you had wounded the deer, with only one sub-sonic round, what was your plan?I had started with several that were given to me. Was it loaded with a cast bullet or something like the the Hornady SX? You decided to kill a deer with the one round you had. You said "I shot an axis deer with a subsonic 223 round I had picked up somewhere." Think about that statement for a minute.I am left with the impression you had one round, have no idea how it was loaded or who loaded it. If the rifle can group them, it'll kill.Given the desire to hunt silently at close range, why not get a crossbow? A subsonic 55 gr bullet is not a good choice IMO.Ī wounded deer dying on the property of your nosey neighbors will not be well received.īTW, almost everyone else here is very .not so much. A bullet of most any size through the brain will put something down. Thats over 3 times the weight so three times the energy.Ĭould you hunt with them? Sure, it's about shot placement.
The 300 is shooting as much as a 240gr SMK at the same subsonic velocity as a. 223, it can't have as much energy as a 300BO. I thought I missed on two of them based on the bullet smack, but then the squirrels fell and did their death dance. I could hear the bullet hit the tree after it passed through the squirrel. Only downside is they're round points, not HP. they don't cycle in a semi, but are quiet suppressed or not. The squirrel kept going to the next tree and looking at me. I tried it in my P22 and made my first kill with that gun. finally I got it sighted in and killed two with head shots. I got ten shot at him before he decided to go up a tree. My scope was off and I managed to sight it in on a squirrel. 22 It's a 22LR with a 40gr bullet at 710fps. I was out sick the last couple days and since I was bored at home, I went to wally world to buy a couple things. Powder type Filling/Loading Ratio Charge Charge Vel. Actual load order can vary, depending upon lot-to-lot powder and component variations.ĩ0 loads produced a Loading Ratio below user-defined minimum of 50%. That all of the listed powders can be unsuitable for the given combination of cartridge, bulletĪnd gun. Loads or exceeds maximum suggested loads as presented in current handloading manuals.
These calculations refer to your specified settings in QuickLOAD 'Cartridge Dimensions' window.Ĭ A U T I O N : any load listed can result in a powder charge that falls below minimum suggested Matching Muzzle Velocity: 950 fps or 289 m/s Predicted Data for Indicated Charges of the Following Powders. Useable Case Capaci: 22.618 grain H2O = 1.469 cm³Ĭartridge O.A.L. 224, 90, Sierra HPBT MatchKing 9290 G7 Litz