zooka
Button Buck
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Post by zooka on Feb 15, 2012 19:01:16 GMT -5
Anyone shooting Thor bullets sabotless in their stock Savage.
Need some loads to start with. The 250 gr .505 dia works fine but need a starting point.
Thanks
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Post by Savage Shooter on Feb 15, 2012 19:26:27 GMT -5
Anyone shooting Thor bullets sabotless in their stock Savage. Need some loads to start with. The 250 gr .505 dia works fine but need a starting point. Thanks I would be looking at the same ratio shooting a duplex that we did with the 250sst's for so long............... My best load with 250sst saboted with MMP HPH 24 was at 14/61 using N110 or 4759 under H322 with speeds at about 2,575 fps......... Could start with a bit lower on both sides and see what chrony tells you........ |
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Post by onecardchuck on Feb 15, 2012 21:07:37 GMT -5
I shoot many of the Thor's way back when. If you do a search on this board and the old board you will find a lot of info. You will experience skirt rip over 43 grains of N110, 44-45 grains of 4759, 61-62 grains of N120 and accuracy will go out the window. Start with 40 grains and work your way up from there for N110 or 4759. The skinny on my testing with them was out of a Savage ML using the .503 250 grain version. I got 23xx fps out of them with either 43 grains of N110 or 62 grains of N120. My groups at 100 yards were around 1.25 to 1.5, but opened up to 5 inches at 200 yards. In order to get this kind of accuracy out of the Savage ML I had to knurl the bullet from above the skirt to the ogive in order to help keep the bullet centered in the barrel. I actually took a big buck with them at 190 yards and it knocked him over like a card board cut out. The only problem for me with them was the 5 inch group at 200 and I was looking for a bullet I could go 300 with good accuracy. Also I have the need for speed and you cannot really shoot these bullets much faster than mentioned or you start to deal with skirt rip and accuracy goes out the window. Mind you this was with a Savage ML that was on the loose barrel end of things. It measured .503 on the lands. I know for "rangeball" they shoot great but his barrel is probably is .500 on the lands. Here are some links I found: dougva.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Savage&action=display&thread=10577dougsmessageboards.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=5640Hope this helps, |
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guppy
8 Pointer
hunting buddy
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Post by guppy on Feb 16, 2012 13:31:48 GMT -5
Rangeball shoots these, he will probably chime in or you could p.m. him.
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Post by rangeball on Feb 16, 2012 13:53:38 GMT -5
zooka, I wasn't aware Terry made one in .505. I shoot the .500 250gr from my .50 douglas barreled SMI, they shoot great. Load is 42gr of N110 and a fed 209A. As chuck said, the larger the bore, the less potential for accuracy. With the thors, the sizing is done on the skirt, the shank is the same .499 on all sizes. The farther your bore is from .50, the more you'll have to knurl the shank to get acceptable accuracy. They are devastating on deer though. Like a hammer  |
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