ORIGINAL: lemoyne

This might start a bit of disscussion, but I am going to comment on the reason I think different people have different results from the same bullet.
A lot of us strive for a certain amount of accuray,one of the things we do is to run the powder ladder with different kindsand amounts of powder.
There for we end up with a wide range of velocity as a result, we know these bullets were designed for certain velocity ranges but we like to ignore the fact.
Now for the part we will proably disagree on, some people use loads that won't open the bullet[cause them to mushroom ] One fellow used 75 gr of RS and shot one hole groups at 100yds; "I told him that good accuracy but NOT a deer load" He did not agree and shot a nice buck with it they had to track the buck witha dog on a leash for around a mile. Now we come to why, he was shooting a Shock Wave one of my favorite bullets, but they are designed for around 2000 fps , 75 gr will giveyou about 1400 fps with Goex FF that will barely open a250 gr XTP and a 230 or 240 gr XTP would be better.
Now this is just my opinion so fel free to put your own in here , but just for fun I will give those interested a few minimum for a few bullets.
XTP 230gr- 1400fps
XTP 240gr- 1500fps
XTP 250gr- 1500fps
with Gold Dots I would add 100fps to this
Shock Waves a minimum of 1850 fps
And please remember that the max velocity is a seoerate discussion to much can be worse than to little.
Lee