I have shot one or two chucks in my time well more'n likely a few thousand
For getting them dead and out of the field at the ranges most rifles are capable of doing acurately the .22/250's and such velocity cartriges are tops and yes they have plenty of thump for making body parts go flying..223 and .222 make exellent walking rifles. Cool thing is you can see the hit through the scope most times since there is less recoil. More vaporization obviously come from heavier and harder hitting bullets provided they are designed as vaporizers. Once up into the bigger bores the bullets are less apt to be intended to vaporize and are more ment for Deer and such. I like .243's for this since the bullets in the lighter weight are just catered to vaporizing chucks. Start getting into varmint type bullets in calibers much bigger and you start loosing BC and what's the point there. Rim fires wound many chucks!
Here's a pictorial comparison from some different calibers.
.223! How dead is dead
.222 new in 1959 and stiil lots of chuck rifle
Lets step up to the .243's. More thump and more vapor effect as a result. .243's will give you air time while the .224's even the higher velocitiy ones are hard pressed to lift them more than a foot or so. Most of these pics atest to the explosive nature of the 58gr VMax. Notice an increase in carnage
Half grown pup at 400yrds
Now lets step 'er up a bit to a bigger caliber for comparison. I have shot many chucks with a .30 but that was before my digital camersa days so I have no pics for comparison so here is a few from the might Old Mother herself the .375H&H for comparison. My beloved "Sweet Melisa" is with out a doubt a nasty chuck rifle. Loads are 87.5 gr IMR 4350 behind a 235 Speer Hotcore. Nasty! Some of the chucks I shot went high enough in the air I didn't need to see them through the scope
Hope this helps with the decission
For getting them dead and out of the field at the ranges most rifles are capable of doing acurately the .22/250's and such velocity cartriges are tops and yes they have plenty of thump for making body parts go flying..223 and .222 make exellent walking rifles. Cool thing is you can see the hit through the scope most times since there is less recoil. More vaporization obviously come from heavier and harder hitting bullets provided they are designed as vaporizers. Once up into the bigger bores the bullets are less apt to be intended to vaporize and are more ment for Deer and such. I like .243's for this since the bullets in the lighter weight are just catered to vaporizing chucks. Start getting into varmint type bullets in calibers much bigger and you start loosing BC and what's the point there. Rim fires wound many chucks!
Here's a pictorial comparison from some different calibers.
.223! How dead is dead
.222 new in 1959 and stiil lots of chuck rifle
Lets step up to the .243's. More thump and more vapor effect as a result. .243's will give you air time while the .224's even the higher velocitiy ones are hard pressed to lift them more than a foot or so. Most of these pics atest to the explosive nature of the 58gr VMax. Notice an increase in carnage
Half grown pup at 400yrds
Now lets step 'er up a bit to a bigger caliber for comparison. I have shot many chucks with a .30 but that was before my digital camersa days so I have no pics for comparison so here is a few from the might Old Mother herself the .375H&H for comparison. My beloved "Sweet Melisa" is with out a doubt a nasty chuck rifle. Loads are 87.5 gr IMR 4350 behind a 235 Speer Hotcore. Nasty! Some of the chucks I shot went high enough in the air I didn't need to see them through the scope
Hope this helps with the decission
