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.