ORIGINAL: HuntAway
I haven't shot the Shockwaves, but I have shot 340 DC, 300 Nosler Partions and 300 SST by Hornady in my Omega.
340 DC, 100 gr T7 Pellets, 100 yds, 2 inch groups
340 DC, 110 Loose T7, 1704 FPS avg (3 shots) 20 yds
300 gr Nosler Partion, 100 gr T7 loose,1748 FPS Avg, (3 shots) 20 yds
330 gr Hornady SST's, 100 gr T7 loosee, 1758 FPS Avg, (3 shots) 20 yds
All shot reasonably well for me. All in the 2-3 inch size groups.
I sailed a 300 gr SST over the chrony at a 100 yds last weekend and it registered 1558 FPS at that range. Using the Point Blank program that turned out to be a BC of .240 with over 1600 FtLbs Energy at 100 yds.
Using that load for the SST's I got about 2 inch groups at 100 and 3.5 - 5 inch at 200. Pretty windy day and maybe some shooter hicups to explain the flyer the main group (3 shots)was under 3 inches.
Cheers,
Aaron
Good report Aaron and very much my findings. The 300 SST/SW has a BC of .240 as compared to the 250 at .210 or there abouts. As I said above I really like the additional accuracy that the 250 gives me and Sandi and I have killed deer and moose beyond 200 yards with the bullet.
To anyone: I'm curious why someone would choose a 300 grain or larger bullet. Now don't anyone take offence I'm just asking that's all.
When I started in this game bullets weren't terribly aerodynamic and speeds were slow. At the advent of sabots and bullets like the SST I really took a close look at the performance envelope and came to some surprising conclusions. The venerable old 30-30 launches a 170 grain bullet at 2000 fpsand you are beating a 308 hard to get a 200 grain bullet to 2400 FPS. The 30-30 is one of the great all time game killers. A 250 SST out of my Encore hits 2200 FPS pretty easy and with great accuracy. The bigger bullets kill very well no doubt about it but why would you need to use a 300 grain or larger bullet to kill that 200 pound whitetail that every year dies by the thousands from 100 grain bullets out of a .243?
Each to his own and I understand personal choice very well - I've spent most of my life swimming against the current. The thing I'm getting at is so many people especially new people to the sport believe that these huge bullets are needed as if the ML won't kill that little deer with anything less.