King of 4000fps

[I Dont Care About You]

LOVE my 17 Fireball. Lots of fun to shoot, no recoil, less noise and smokes gophers dead. I'd only use it on yotes at relatively close range as the bullets lose velocity very rapidly.

The most powerful hot rod I ever owned was a heavy barrel 243 Win, in which I ran 70gr Ballistic Tips at around 3600-3700 fps. That thing killed like Thor's hammer. It was simply unbelievable on yotes. Never had one take more than a step or two after being hit and most were simply light switch kills. The 70gr Ballistic Tips absolutely vaporized gophers. I've never seen anything else like it.

I'm not sure I see the value in choosing lighter bullets simply to meet some number on the chronograph. The lightweight bullets are stubby and have crappy BC so they lose velocity very quickly. There is a happy medium between bullet shape BC and velocity.

The biggest issue with hot rod cartridges is the way they burn the barrel. Barrels ain't exactly cheap.

 

[conor_90]

I've always wanted a 55-75 grain deer bullet in the 243

 

[Dosing]

Somewhere back in the 90s there was an article on using Sabots in a 458wm that drove 308s to over 4k. Just sayin. Lol

 

[conor_90]

I imagine you could do a lot with one of these and modern powders.

 

[rpcw]

Had fun with several of these. 17 Rem, Fireball, several 204R’s, 220 Swift and 22-250.

Most fun was the fireball, Swift and 204R.

I got that 204 up to 4350 consistently and ridiculous accuracy.

Subcals are so much fun!!!

I remember shooting the REM in rain and some bullets literally came apart on way to target.

Good luck! Barrels will burn!

 

[JJ-65]

Using light TTSX or Hammer bullets many hunting rifles can run past 4K. 257 Weatherby Mag, 6.5-300 WM and any 30 cal mag will get ya there.

 

[4fifty8]

My .300 Win Mag with 110gr TTSX.

 

[Eagleye]

I loaded the Swift to 4K+ with certain 50 grain pills. Rapture to turn a crow to black feathers floating
to the ground right out past 400 yards.

 

[A&Shuntr]

I run my .243AI and .25 Gibbs over 4400fps. Truly members of the pink mist society

 

[Longstud]

223 wssm can get you over 4000 fps as well

Your correct and light bullets with a 24 or 26” barrel will get close to 4600fps but have spare barrels and a gunsmith lined up cuz the party’s gonna be real short!!

 

[rpcw]

 

[rpcw]

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The above was out of the ML with light bullets and they shot horribly till I move up velocity. 100 yard target an I think I could push these close to 3500 or better!

 

[pathfinder76]

Another 1100 fps and you’re there.

 

[brybenn]

223 wssm can get you over 4000 fps as well

Not that I'm a fan of the wssm but does anyone still chamber one? I was under the impression that that series of cases were pretty much passed over

 

[brybenn]

Somewhere back in the 90s there was an article on using Sabots in a 458wm that drove 308s to over 4k. Just sayin. Lol

Now that's a cool concept but I live and hunt varmints in a caliber restricted zone

 

[brybenn]

My .300 Win Mag with 110gr TTSX.

I topped out at 3700fps with the 110 gmx in my 300wm. Maybe it was just that rifle as I couldn't hit 3000fps with any 180gr without flattening primers
What powder did you use?

 

[4fifty8]

^^

Re22.

 

[CV32]

I do enjoy shooting the .204 Ruger. Also had a bit of a fascination with maybe building a .224 Vais for a while.

 

[B]

.204 has a lot going for it as long as you accept the fact anything bigger than a coyote may be stretching it. Firing something with serious range and hardly having your sight picture wobble makes for very pleasant shooting.

 

[Mr Bill]

You can easily ‘burn’ out the accuracy of a barrel in just about ANY varmint caliber, within a long weekend of shooting in a Montana prairie dog town, if you are not disciplined or don’t have enough different rifles to rotate. And who can resist pulling the trigger in a target rich environment…
Then we drive up to Alberta and Saskatchewan to deal with the infestations of gophers with rimfires, .22LR,17HM2,17HMR. Have to rotate the rimfires because even they can get ‘warm’, when you have a 2-4 brick per day habit. Did the math on the last day of a 3 week shoot, over $300.00 per day on ammo.
The 25/06Rem is there for backup, and the .338Lapua is there for because why not !!
Don’t shoot Eley match out there anymore, CCI standard velocity is extremely accurate enough and is more budget friendly as per my sponsor (Mr. Visa) lol
Loved reading all your posts, you are all hard core aficionados(GUNUTZ). !!!!!