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Mickey, I'm interested your bullet choice. I've read complaints about the A-max not opening up because it was never designed to at subsonic speeds. Have you had a chance to see how it expands?
I've just plinked with my loads. Only wacking paper or steel.
I had a conversation today with one of the owners of the company I work for that shoots these projectiles and has fantastic results on a well placed neck shot. Dropped like a sack of taters.
http://www.lehighdefense.com/collec...s/308-maximum-expansion-194gr-subsonic-bullet
http://www.lehighdefense.com/produc...nic-maximum-expansion-ammo?variant=1066138648
I only shoot the 208gr Amax because I have a pile of them and they are reasonably priced.Yeah those Lehigh defense rounds are cool but at those prices I could never afford to train at a $1.70-$2.00 a pull. I did see something about pulling the tip on the A max achieving better expansion but it's the interwebz, you just never know.
Mickey, I'm interested your bullet choice. I've read complaints about the A-max not opening up because it was never designed to at subsonic speeds. Have you had a chance to see how it expands?
I shoot subsonic suppressed almost exclusively. The Amax 208's make a little hole going into a beaver & a little hole coming our. The only bullets available for handloading that do expand subsonic are the high dollar machined copper (Lehigh defense). The Noveske Glowtip factory ammo works quite well and has had a major impact (pun warning) on the beaver population in my pond. Very quite until they meet mr beaver.
If you're interested in handloading, save yourself a headache and buy virgin brass. Not all .223 and 5.56 cases will work. I also had trouble with"professionally" reformed brass, just won't chamber.
I'm in the upper left hand corner of Louisiana if I can be any help.
Anyone tried the Lake City brass?
Anyone tried the Lake City brass?
Some headstamps are supposed to be OK. I reformed a batch of the "correct" cases and a fair number wouldn't chamber. I small base sized (5.56), formed, length trimmed, neck turned, and resized again. Not all would chamber, I gave up & just bought virgin brass. Haven't had any trouble since.
I've been in the process of creating 2 subsonic loads for my bolt guns. Leaning on the old man because he just has a knack for working out the math and has home brewed some fantastic loads over the years. I wanted something right at the 1100fps mark with better range and better expansion. Using mostly once fired Fiocchi brass and some Remington, he put me right in the ballpark with a 168grBTSP. We've also loaded some 147 grainers that do pretty well too but don't group as tight in my Ruger American. I'll have to find the load data he wrote down on the boxes but it's simple using common powders. The last lot we shot through the chrony were clocked at 1080-1090 range and opened up just fine in wet phone books and the drop at 200 was about half that of a 220gr bullet .