Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
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Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
I was shooting a number of different loads today with the .50 caliber Knight Disc rifle with the Millet Scope. I found that with two pyrodex pellets and a .451 Barnes Cannelured 454 Casull copper bullet out of a Harvester Crushed Rib sabot shot an excellent group. The rifle shot a one inch group. I was more then pleased with that off my bench rest.
The interesting thing is I recovered a Barnes bullet that went through the target and hit the steel trap back stop. Even after flattening to one and three eights of an inch, it still retained 236.6 grains of the original 250 grain weight. That to me was most impressive.
I can understand why people use this projectile on elk...
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2005
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RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
Very interesting,did you test it in any medium? I wonder what one of the bonded shock waves would do in the same circumstances.I have loadedthem up to a 150 gr.[2100fps] and still have not been able to get one to frag.do you suppose the higher vol. and faster twist of the savage makes the differance?Lee
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RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
Nice shooting. Looks like the new scope is right on. How do these bullets differ from the 250gr barnes expander MZ's. Or are they the same just sold to different markets?
gopherfan
gopherfan
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RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
They basically are the same thing as a Barnes Expander except for the band you see on the bullet. The Expanders do not have that.. otherwise they are the same, and they are not as expensive..
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RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
ORIGINAL: lemoyne
Very interesting,did you test it in any medium? I wonder what one of the bonded shock waves would do in the same circumstances.I have loadedthem up to a 150 gr.[2100fps] and still have not been able to get one to frag.do you suppose the higher vol. and faster twist of the savage makes the differance?Lee
Very interesting,did you test it in any medium? I wonder what one of the bonded shock waves would do in the same circumstances.I have loadedthem up to a 150 gr.[2100fps] and still have not been able to get one to frag.do you suppose the higher vol. and faster twist of the savage makes the differance?Lee
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,922
RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
Is that photo reflective of one of the 4-corner bullseyes on those Remington targets? That's not a photo of the center bullseye... is it? I have-yet to use those paper targets... that's why I'm questioning the photo shots.
Also... are the supplied sabots for that bullet HPH-12s or HPH-24s? Perhaps... even the new 3-petal?
By-the-way.... Del Ramsey emailed me with a 3-petal sabot trial offer. After exchanging a few emails with him, I've assured my findings that this man is just the opposite of that Precision bullet owner (won't mention his name)..... Del being a fine gentleman both on the phone during a few conversation we've had in the pastand by recent email exchanges.
Now all I need to do is to get over to the range & try them out.
Also... are the supplied sabots for that bullet HPH-12s or HPH-24s? Perhaps... even the new 3-petal?
By-the-way.... Del Ramsey emailed me with a 3-petal sabot trial offer. After exchanging a few emails with him, I've assured my findings that this man is just the opposite of that Precision bullet owner (won't mention his name)..... Del being a fine gentleman both on the phone during a few conversation we've had in the pastand by recent email exchanges.
Now all I need to do is to get over to the range & try them out.
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RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
Wow - good shooting Cayugad. Buying the pistol bullets in bulk appears to be a considerable savings - almost half price. If you have some 30 grain pellets, try two fifties and a thirty. Pretty good balance of horsepower, recoil, and accuracy in my guns.
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RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
Is that photo reflective of one of the 4-corner bullseyes on those Remington targets?That's not a photo of the center bullseye... is it?
are the supplied sabots for that bullet HPH-12s or HPH-24s? Perhaps... even the new 3-petal?
I am at this point about to place an order with Del for a number of different sabots. I went crazy the other day and blew a couple hundred bucks on sabots, powder, wads, primers, caps, .400 200 grain XTP's, etc and now I need some speciality sabots to shoot the projectiles I ordered.
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RE: Barnes XPB 250 grain Cannelured
ORIGINAL: Roskoe
Wow - good shooting Cayugad. Buying the pistol bullets in bulk appears to be a considerable savings - almost half price. If you have some 30 grain pellets, try two fifties and a thirty. Pretty good balance of horsepower, recoil, and accuracy in my guns.
Wow - good shooting Cayugad. Buying the pistol bullets in bulk appears to be a considerable savings - almost half price. If you have some 30 grain pellets, try two fifties and a thirty. Pretty good balance of horsepower, recoil, and accuracy in my guns.
Triple Se7en powder and that rifle do not agree. I once told someone I shot T-7 and the 200 grain powderbelts out of that rifle with great results. I tried that yesterday and was shocked. They were all over the place. So I went back and checked my notes and low and behold, Goex 3f is the powder that produced the best accuracy. Its just hard to beat Goex.