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Looking at opinions/ experience with terminal performance for these two bullets. I have five .45 cal and I am trying to decide which is a better choice for my situation. Shots could be 25-250 yards Velocity range is 2300 FPS to 1500 FPS (mostly whitetail does in southern Mich.) which creates a wide FPS set of terminal performance. I have a custom Savage with a Pacnor barrel so these .45 saboted guns are for my family. My wife shot a doe at 165 yards this year with a 200SST. She hit it top of lung and it hit the bottom of the spine. Of course the deer dropped and the bullet fragmented on the spine. I wasn't disappointed but this is my only experience with these bullets.
Her gun is a 29" .45 cal CVA Optima with a Bergarra .453 ( large) barrel. I knurl the bullets up and run through a .403 die for uniformity. I found Harvester cruch ribs to shoot the best. Load is 84 gr weighed BH209. I clean between shots. The 200 SST shot just under 1" @ 100 yards and the 225 Fury is shoots 1-1.5 " groups.
Thanks
Her gun is a 29" .45 cal CVA Optima with a Bergarra .453 ( large) barrel. I knurl the bullets up and run through a .403 die for uniformity. I found Harvester cruch ribs to shoot the best. Load is 84 gr weighed BH209. I clean between shots. The 200 SST shot just under 1" @ 100 yards and the 225 Fury is shoots 1-1.5 " groups.
Thanks