223, Barnes Varm/Grenade, & Blue Dot: Range Report

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24 November 2007, 05:29

seafire2

223, Barnes Varm/Grenade, & Blue Dot: Range Report

This was posted on the Varmint Forum, since I do this stuff for varmint shooting...

Picked up a box at the new Sportsman's Warehouse that opened locally last week ( finally!!!)...

Anyway, nice looking bullet for sure..

Blue Dot:

223 & 36 grain Barnes Varmint Grenade HP.

Primer: CCI Small Pistol

Brass: Lake City

Rifle : Ruger 77 Mk 2

Barrel: 22inch

1. 7 grs: 1946 fps
2. 8 grs: 2286 fps
3. 9 grs: 2477 fps
4. 10 grs; No Reading
5. 11 grs: 2704 fps
6. 12 grs: 3024 fps
7. 13 grs: 3201 fps
8. 14 grs: 3321 fps

Cheers
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24 November 2007, 08:26

seafire2

Since it is a powder commonly used in pistol loads.. small pistol or large pistol primers work more than enough....

you can use small rifle primers of course...

however, that was what was sitting on the reload bench at the moment since the last couple of times I was down where I can purchase primers, they were out of both small rifle and large rifle primers.. evidently due to demand for primers in the Middle east and military applications...

So that was why more than anything else...

but the small pistol primers ignite it just fine also...