Joshua M. Smith
Member
Hello,
My favorite .22LR round has been the Winchester Expert. It had pure soft lead and a gaping hollowpoint.
Earlier this year, they disappeared from shelves around here. Conjecture has it that they were copper washed and made into Winchester 333 and 555, of which we are equally short. I have one single box of 333.
Blazer bulk is consistently available here, and I enjoy the stuff - I only wish they made it in hollowpoint. The Dynapoint I got ahold of didn't expand, having only a vestigial hollowpoint which is probably more for marketing purposes than anything.
A member of the H&A forum suggested a hollowpointing tool. In typical fashion, I thanked him for the idea, hem hawed around, and finally ended up with one (getting involved with the 1911 took me several years!)
The hollowpointer I bought is made by D Back on Rimfirecentral.com. The thread is located here: http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231911
The above thread has plenty of pics of the tool, so I won't bother posting any here. Suffice to say that it comes with different points and will work in a reloading press in a pinch. It resizes the bullets to a uniform .225" as well, according to my digital calipers.
Here are the results.
For a control sample, a Winchester 333:
Impressive, but sorta' cheap looking. Not real uniform.
Next, a Winchester Dynapoint run through the hollowpointer:
Very nice... but it cracked the side at the setting I like. This seems to be fairly hard lead with a high antimony content.
Finally, the CCI Blazer:
This is very soft lead. A huge gaping hole was made, and I don't doubt it will perform on game.
Remember, the 333 is 36gn while the Dynapoint and Blazer are 40gn. These rounds, especially the Blazer, should make short work of squirrel.
I'll try some Dynapoint from the Romanian, but I'm about two weeks away from having a new rifle, a left handed Savage bolt action with a thumbhole stock, heavy barrel and Accutrigger.
I'm rather anxious to see what these will do to coyote on down.
If you're having trouble getting your hands on hollowpoint .22, I'd recommend going over to RFC and talking to D Back.
Josh <><
My favorite .22LR round has been the Winchester Expert. It had pure soft lead and a gaping hollowpoint.
Earlier this year, they disappeared from shelves around here. Conjecture has it that they were copper washed and made into Winchester 333 and 555, of which we are equally short. I have one single box of 333.
Blazer bulk is consistently available here, and I enjoy the stuff - I only wish they made it in hollowpoint. The Dynapoint I got ahold of didn't expand, having only a vestigial hollowpoint which is probably more for marketing purposes than anything.
A member of the H&A forum suggested a hollowpointing tool. In typical fashion, I thanked him for the idea, hem hawed around, and finally ended up with one (getting involved with the 1911 took me several years!)
The hollowpointer I bought is made by D Back on Rimfirecentral.com. The thread is located here: http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231911
The above thread has plenty of pics of the tool, so I won't bother posting any here. Suffice to say that it comes with different points and will work in a reloading press in a pinch. It resizes the bullets to a uniform .225" as well, according to my digital calipers.
Here are the results.
For a control sample, a Winchester 333:
Impressive, but sorta' cheap looking. Not real uniform.
Next, a Winchester Dynapoint run through the hollowpointer:
Very nice... but it cracked the side at the setting I like. This seems to be fairly hard lead with a high antimony content.
Finally, the CCI Blazer:
This is very soft lead. A huge gaping hole was made, and I don't doubt it will perform on game.
Remember, the 333 is 36gn while the Dynapoint and Blazer are 40gn. These rounds, especially the Blazer, should make short work of squirrel.
I'll try some Dynapoint from the Romanian, but I'm about two weeks away from having a new rifle, a left handed Savage bolt action with a thumbhole stock, heavy barrel and Accutrigger.
I'm rather anxious to see what these will do to coyote on down.
If you're having trouble getting your hands on hollowpoint .22, I'd recommend going over to RFC and talking to D Back.
Josh <><