Has anybody tried this combo at varmints? Shots out to 300 yards.. does it kill varmints as effectivly or hopefully MORE, then a 223, 22-250 shooting their 50-60 grain bullets?

Actually out of a 30/30, loaded single shot with a load of Reloader 7....MV was 3000 fps..

within 200 yds, it really made a mess of a couple of fat prairie dogs...

The 300SAUM and the 110 gr VMAX at 3553 really messes up a varmints day!! You don't get red mist, you get red chunks flying!!! GHD

Charlie,

Is that the max velocity you can get out of that Rem SAUM?

I figured that velocity could be cranked up faster than 3500 fps out of the SAUM...

Goes to show how efficient that little 30/30 case can be with light bullets.. aka the old 219 Zipper or Donaldson Wasp....

I like that little Whump sound that procedes the raining of prairie dog or wood chuck parts and that little red mist blowing across the field...

So in your experience.. more or less carnage then shooting a 22-250?

Gidday Guys,

I don't know what the velocity is but with the Norma 110gr round nose for the .30 carbine round with a good dose of IMR4895 out of the 30-06 I don't get exits on wallaby's. Just a bunch of soup in the chest cavity.

It was also the hammer of Thor on a pair of Fallow bucks that made the mistake of wandering into a wallaby hunt last year.

I don't use them for deer as a matter of course prefering ballistic tips or coreloct 150s for an exit wound but in a pinch they do the job.

Seirra HPs also do the job well with great splatter effect on Hares.

Happy Hunting

Hamish

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Originally posted by Nortman:
So in your experience.. more or less carnage then shooting a 22-250?

ON the vmax.. in 30 cal... more damage or mess than a 22.250... but that can depend on what you are hitting with a 22.250

one of your fellow countrymen was posting about shooting seals with head shots out of a 300 Winchester and a 110 grain V Max... he posted pics and it opened the head of a seal up like opening a book....

any body know the powder range for vv N150 and 110 vmax in the 30.06 AI?
where would the be the best plce to start?

thanks

30 -35 years ago a friend losded some 110 gr Hornady spire points to near max with IMR 4064. The only "varmits" I could find were large turtles in one of our farm pounds. Center mass hits would produce the "red mist" effect or large chunks of turtle would rain down for several seconds after the impact. I haven't done that in years but the bullets were impressive.

Seafire: well.. the normal varmints you have in the states?

Rockchuck, p-dogs, coyote.. etc etc?

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Have anybody tried the 125grain Speer TNT at around 3000fps.


Im wondering how it kills prarie-dogs, ground squirls etc? Will it open up enough to get the "red mist" effect? I read somewhere that they might be to big and slow for these small vermin.

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Nortman...

My varmint shooting consists of mainly prairie dogs and little sage rats...

The occasional coyote opportunity presents itself or seagulls over the sage rat fields...will normally get my scopes attention also...as do crows...

The Speer 125 grain TNT is also a good bullet... for shear damage, I'd learn toward the V max.. and I say that normally preferring a Speer TNT over a Vmax...but in this case, experiences of mine, give the explosive credit to the V Max...

At 3000 fps, I really wouldn't feel uncomfortable using either on the antelope sized deer we have here in Oregon....which I gather are equal to the European roe deer...
with good shot placement of course...

i use a 125 gr nosler bt in a HB remy 308 for pd's quite a bit. yes it does blow the chit out of most anything it hits