Supersonic 110-gr Sierra
 

Any recipes?

I like the Whisper so much I might hunt deer with it this season (supersonic, no can.)

Anyone played with 110s?

I have a few, but never loaded any super-sonic. I think the will be very effective.

I have some Sierra 110 HPs and Hornady 110 V-Maxes I will eventually get around to loading up.

I was never really crazy about them in my 308s so I am not sure how they will do in a 1 in 8 twist at supersonic but I guess we shall see.

We loaded some 100gr plinkers and some 110gr .30 carbine tracers and they worked fine. Groups on the tracers were nothing to write home about but the 100gr bullets were right around an inch at 100. I don't have the load data with me but I believe we were loading about 19gr of H110. We also tried a load with hodgdon 'lil gun and it was in the 18-19gr region. We were getting 2300+fps out of these. A chronograph problem prevented getting much useful data but the 100gr slugs were hell on waterjugs at 50yds.

We had a good load for the hornady 130gr flat point 30-30 bullets using 19gr of Hodgdon lil gun for one and I think we tried the H110 at around 20gr or so. Velocity was in the mid 2300 range and they were great for exploding water jugs at 100yds. That bullet runs a little slower in the 30-30 and is considered a more than adequate deer killer. I think it would make a great deer round in the 300.

Hope thats a good starting point.

Frank

Thanx, tht gives me a place to start.

I'll load a few 110s and let you know how they shoot.

I have built some loads using the 110gr Sierra JHP with 19.0gr of H4227. They seem to work fine. Havn't chrono'd them or shot for group yet as I am just getting my Whisper AR going. The 110gr Sierra has a massive hollow point. It'd prob be great on larger varmints or hogs.

Just starting out with my300/221 w/1:8 twist, but I loaded the Sierra 110gr # 2110 bullet, Fed 205 primers, with Winchester 296 powder from 19 to 20 gr and was getting sub 1" groups at 100 consistently. It shot them real well until I ran out of them....definetly going to buy more.

I just loaded some 125gr Speer TNT's over VN110, we'll see what they do tomorrow.

Thanx for the Sierra pages, just bought a new book but it lacked 300 Whisper.

Loaded some 110s and 125s last weekend, will have a report soon.

(All supersonics.)

Shot the 110s and 125s, both grouped well (about an inch at 100 yards.) No real pressure signs on the brass. I can post recipes if anyone wants.

The dope change was -4.75 mils, I doped it on the reticle so my subsonic dope is still the center dot (illuminated, for killing pigs at night.)

The 110-grain was an Amax, which tend to grenade inside animals, not great for deer or elk meat, great for putting down hogs.

I shot a 190lb buck at 80yds with the sierra 110 in the shoulder. It was a complete pass through. 19.6g W296. It had a 1.5 inch exit wound.

I wouldn't have thought that bullet would be suitable for such a task. It is interesting to hear that it does work well.

What kind of velocity is that load producing?

The Sierra Load data shows it at 2100 but that is with a 10in barrel. I have a 16.5in barrel with a 1-8 twist so I can only guess it is around 2300. I originally bought the 110's to fire form my brass. I would post alot of pictures but the attachment limit is so low the pictures look terrible. this is the first I have joined a forum but I like the 300 round so here I am.

Good to have 'ya here MAG...

I will have to try that load in my 10". I was even planning to go out and test tomorrow so I will have to run down to the loading bench and throw 5 of these together to try.

Glad to be here. No one ever puts this stuff but here ya go.
19.6 W296
C.O.A.L 1.975
REM 7 1/2 small rifle benchrest primer

Now I just have to figure out how to post pictures in a thread without using the attachment feature.

compressed my pictures correctly. Even better

Nice job! Good shot placement.

Thanks. Here is a pic of my 110, 240, and Corbon 220.

Its a new season and the Sierra 110 has proven its self once again. This deer was shot at 172yds with the same load as above. Shot in the right shoulder and exited behind the left leg.

I've been getting 1.1" 20 shot groups out of my new noveske 16" using hornady 110 vmax and 18.5gr of h110. Averaging 2350 fps with the can on.

I will have to try the hornady 110's in my 8in noveske. I tried the sierra 110's but after loading more than 7 rounds in 30rd magazine they start to criss cross inside the mag. Thanks for posting a velocity. I wonder how much speed im losing with a shorter barrel.

http://www.quarterbore.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8980

Here's the thread regarding 110's and H110. The link is to hodgdon's site and their powders. The first loads are all VMax's.

If this setup proves reliable I will register it and make it an SBR. IF not the billet Mega set will morph into a grendel with 20in barrel.

Nice! Gotta make up the 10 char limit so I may as well talk about my kids or the x wife............ Nice Buck!

110 vmax for deer
 

Hi There
I thought I would like to try out the 110 vmax on deer and see how it would go. I had shot a lot of deer with the 125 sierra but thought I could get a bit more speed with the 110. My first experament was to see how they would perform on water bottles, At low speeds they didant expand like I thought but at the top range they had excelent expanshion. I then gave them a go on fallow deer which is quite a small deer. the results were excelent. good penitration and instant kills as good as my bigger calabers. I have also tryed it on a large red deer with a sholder shot, not quite as effective in this case but still a good kill. My best result with the v max was some weeks ago, I pulled off a 283 yard shot on a fallow neck shot. instant kill. Not bad for a 300 whisper. Hope this may help.
Kiwi hunter.