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Old 08-16-2005 | 11:51 AM
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RedAllison
 
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Default RE: IS THIS A GOOD SETUP FOR 100-200 YARDS?

Slayer, on the surface it all looks good. BUT my only hesitation would be what kind of power will a 200grn have at 200yds when only fired with 110grns of powder? The Shockwave is simply a repackaged Hornady SST and I know them personally to be GREAT bullets and they penetrate like few others. BUT that's from experience with my customers firing 250-300grn versions from 150grn Encore/Omegas and mine and a few friends who use max loads in our Savage smokeless guns.

I am interested by the 200s strictly from a trajectory point of view, but they are very light for their caliber (poor sectional density and ballistic coef) so they shed velocity very quickly. That is why I would hesitate to put full faith into them without a test or two on animals to see what happens, they might not retain enough velocity/penetration @200yds to reliably do their job where they would if they were 250 or 300grn versions.

PLEASE get back with us on this matter, I am very interested on the 200s performance at long range!
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