what I could expect from my 16.5" 220 Swift. It wears a PacNor 3 groove 1-6" twist for the 80 Amax and 90 Berger VLD's.

The 80's run 3000 fps........

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I need to rethink my uneducated prejudices against using my AR15 on deer. I would have been down to it this year, and I do keep Winchester 64 gr Powerpoints around, but if you got these results at 195 yards, it's time for me to wake up.

For mine. It's accurate and I sorta figured it would perform about like you describe. I need to buy some component bullets to reload now that I know my rifle likes them.

Started hunting farm deer the last few years and god forbid I bought the only magnum rifle I ever sort of admired or figured I'd ever use (7mm Remington). I missed a nice big fat doe at 400 yards with that 7mm mag from a (prone rest) that I thought I knew the trajectory earlier that morning. (need range time with that thing) So I said "heck I'm not going to shoot anything over 200 yards the rest of the day. I knew the AR was dead on at 200 and have been watching all the video's of the vortex bullets performance and peoples reviews. I really would have liked it to have gone through the lungs.

When I was spilling the innards out I kept seeing lots of what looked like clotted up blood. After examining it it was the liver in a hundred small pieces. Its like when the spinning bullet hit it inside the deer the reaction was like shooting a melon. Some of the bits of meat and blood actually spit back out the entrance wound as the deer was falling.

Bob

I've been loading the 62gr over 26 gr of varget. getting 2890 out of a 20" LTR.
I'm loading out to 2.320" and still getting some crunch when seating after tapping the case to settle the powder.
Barnes data shows 25.5 as max with varget loaded to mag length. I don't know if you can get that much powder in there and load to mag length.

BTW, Target Sports USA has loaded Win 64gr PP in stock. Ain't cheap(22.90). I ordered a case just to try them out.
Best I remember Byron has take several deer with them.