Barnes Varmint Grenade Bullets

[trevj]

Couldn't access any data without yet another outfit wanting to assign me a login and password. And charge me $50 a year, to be in the "club".

Quite more bother than I am willing to go through to find out if I want to buy their product or not.

You got a link to the info? I have looked a couple times now, no joy.

Cheers
Trev

 

[Pudelpointer]

Trev, the reason for the fast twist is the grenades are very long for their weight; they are filled with a copper/tin alloy IIRC, which is a hell of a lot lighter than lead.

BTW, the 36gr have the same length as a traditional 52gr hollow point. A 55-60gr is usually about the heaviest bullet a 1-14" 22 cal will reliably stabilize, but it is not really about the weight, it is about the length.

 

[casterpollox]

I picked up some 62 grain 6mm and I thought I got the wrong calibre when I opened the box. They were really short or at least they looked short compared to a 65 grain Vmax.

**scratches head**

 

[trevj]

Pudelpointer,

That makes a bit of sense.

AFAIKT from my reading about the web (everywhere except the Barnes website, which is pretty pathetic, considering how much info seems to be there) the Varmint Grenades are a direct offspring of a military contract requirement for a bullet to practice close quarters live fire drills at steel plate targets. The requirement also specified that the bullets be lead free, and the frangibility came out of a desire to have minimum ricochet risk.

What I have read is that they were, as you say, a compressed fill of copper/tin powder.

FWIW, I also read a guys writing where he said he had good luck filling his jackets with a compressed mixture of corn starch and a binder(unspecified). He said they made the gophers fly real good!

Dunno. It seems rather half-wit to not make the information about the barrel twist requirement more available.

Meanwhile, I guess I don't need any.

Cheers
Trev