200 gn Hornady .40 XTP terminal performance in a .45... Graphic!
02-18-2008, 02:05 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 1,607
RE: 200 gn Hornady .40 XTP terminal performance in a .45... Graphic!
Those are one of my favorite ML bullets.Nice report, I've never recovered one. They seem to just keep on goin' for me.
I love the rifle by the way!! I bet you could carry that thing all day.
I love the rifle by the way!! I bet you could carry that thing all day.
02-18-2008, 03:13 PM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Arizona
Posts: 202
RE: 200 gn Hornady .40 XTP terminal performance in a .45... Graphic!
BrushPopper, nice piggy! I also enjoy chasing those things around the desert. Yeah, locating them is the hardest thing. I've shot 3 of them - 2 with a Thompson Contender and one with ML - and the average shot distance has been between 80 and 100 yards.
02-19-2008, 07:49 AM
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Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Texas (Williamson Co.)
Posts: 128
RE: 200 gn Hornady .40 XTP terminal performance in a .45... Graphic!
The barrel is cut down to about 19" and sighted-in for 50 yds.
Here's another "Shorty" pic.
Not exactly a tack-driver, 50 yd groups run about3" for 5 shots, but I really made it up as a brush/truck gun and won't be taking any shots past about 75 yds with it.
BP
02-20-2008, 01:49 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,482
RE: 200 gn Hornady .40 XTP terminal performance in a .45... Graphic!
That's a SWEET little gun you have there! Very unusual- I can see how it could be very handy in the brush at short ranges. Congrats on the nice harvest too.
Good terminal performance with the XTP - I shoot the 200 grainer at about 1800 fps - I wouldn't recommend pushing it much faster than that. I get really good performance at 50 - 100 yards, but I've had one fragment on me with a point-blank 5 yard shot.
Good terminal performance with the XTP - I shoot the 200 grainer at about 1800 fps - I wouldn't recommend pushing it much faster than that. I get really good performance at 50 - 100 yards, but I've had one fragment on me with a point-blank 5 yard shot.
