Has anyone used these much? I have heard varied reports on them from being too tough to not tough enough.
In my own experience we recently tried what I assume is the lever action bullet in 375, the 220gn flatpoint, pushed to around 2800fps in a 375 H&H.These ones were zipping through small game. Serious defect or bad batch?

Karl.

Hello All
Was searching through to see if my question had been asked previously and came across Karls.

Have read Bretto's post and seen the evidence which was most impressive

Am having to use my 375HH as a main rifle for a feral goat trip in the flinders.

- Is the taipan 220 the pick of available bullets to provide expansion?

- How do these bullets perform at 200m and beyond?

- What powders and loads have worked best for other people?


Appreciate any advice..... and no I can't afford a second smaller cal. before I go.

Cheers
Mick

I have shot a few goats with 225gr hornadys AR2206 doing about 2800fps.

have used the 250gr sp, 300gr, 350gr taipans, soft as. the 250gr are pure dynamite on ferals, and shoot flat. even the 350gr open up on goats ect.



cheers cc

On smaller stuff I have always tended to use 235 Speers with good effect. It doesnt knock you around so much either. Goats dont really need a lot to knock them over. If you are after meat though then I'd steer clear of bullets designed for the lever guns, unless you load them down of course.
Joe

I am getting golf sized exits from .416 400 gr Taipans on thin skinned game.

I actually think the .416 400 gr Taipan would even work well on Sambar deer.

They shoot well in my cz as well.

I have no experience with bullets of the calibres quoted above but have found with Taipan HPs in 308,6.5x55, 243 & 223 that to get proper expansion they need to be driven hard (fast) at or near top loads. They are my bullet of choice for hunting in my stated rifles.

Thanks all for the replies
Appreciate the first hand knowledge, and it appears the lighter bullets will work well.
I have shot a red hind with the 235gn speers and the projectile penetrated about a 1m in through the base of the chest and finished in the backstraps. Was really effective however was under the impression they have a thicker jacket and with less frontal lead showing may zip through goats. The bullets designed for the lever guns should give the desired results. Not to concerned about the meat as we are there to cull as many as possible. I am just hoping for instant humane dispatch.

Will load up these rounds and see how they shoot.
Cheers
Mick

A late post, apologies, but I find Taipans to be consistently two things: highly accurate, and explosive on game. The Taipan bullet I have used most in the field is the .416 400gr RNSP in the Taylor cartridge, and it is an absolute bomb on pigs and donkeys. Shooting donks with .416 Taipans is akin to big-bore varminting! I consider Taipans too soft for buffalo though, preferring Woodleighs for the big bulls.

Here's a couple of pics (worth a thousand words) from a VRD trip a while back.



Even though the 400gr Taipan is explosive, they usually still exit donks in spectacular fashion. In fact, the exception proves the rule: this single recovery from under the off-side hide of a feral donk weighed only 116 grains!



Here in Oz, we have the best of both worlds: Woodleigh Weldcores for serious big game, and Taipans for thin-skinned game and the dirt butt-stop. Bloody marvellous!

[QUOTE]Here in Oz, we have the best of both worlds: Woodleigh Weldcores for serious big game, and Taipans for thin-skinned game and the dirt butt-stop. Bloody marvellous! QUOTE]

I agree.................the only thing with the 400 gr .416 bullet is the cannelure is in the wrong spot, to far back I spoke with staff at Taipan about this and the lady said I was not the first to have mentioned it. Problem is easily solved though as I purchased a cannleure cutter from CH4 and re-cut them a little closer to the end.

Karl,
Some of the Taipan projectiles are unexplainably tough ... the .45cal 300gr FN is one of them ... sounds like the 220gr .375cal might be too???

PC:
If your still after cheap 45cals projectiles, drop me a PM. Found a guy in Sydney that is gearing up to make monolithic 458cal and 510cal. He believes he can do a cup-core type 458cal of around 450-480gr for $370-390 per 500. Just needs a large enough order to make the dies and begin production.
Cheers...
Con
PS: I'd not be in a group buy as I have no .458cals left ... but he expressed an interest in doing some .35s for me.

PC
Taipan has two 400grn 416 bullets, one is Rigby and the other 416 Rem. I asked Malcolm what the difference was and he said the only difference was the position of the cannelure.

I fired my 375 with 300grn T into some sand at 100yds and the jacket peeled all the way back to the base. The jacket was very thin, didn't weigh it but I would not use these on anything big or tuff.

I've used the 220 Taipan and 220 and 220 hornady in the 375H&H for a long time now and found them dynamite on any thing I've hit. The hornady's do seem a fair bit softer though. I've also tried the 200gr seirra power jacket at near on 3300 fps and found it to be hopeless. You would think it to be fragile at 1000fps over its designed speed but the opposite is true. Of the half dozen goats I shot with them all over penetrated with the first shot passing right through a large billy's shoulder and wounding a nanny behind. I haven't tried the 225 hornady but it looks like it could be a good thing too. The 220's seem to only exit smaller critters the size of small pigs. And as I've written in another thread they literally nearly remove the top half of a decent sized roo. Not sure if velocity is making the difference but I run them at 3100fps using 78-80 grns of ar2208 (2 different guns) I tried 2206 but couldn't get any where near the velocity of 2208. 2800fps seems a little slow for a 375H&H.
I can't comment on their performance at long range though as I don't think I've ever taken a shot at anything over 150 yards with it. Not that trajectoy is a problem as they have a BC similar to .224 pills and they are doing .223 speeds. But even at 3100fps recoil really is pretty tame out of a BRNO 602
Regards Brett

Thanks for the replies
Most appreciated
Will post some pics and give a report once my 375 catches up with goats.