I have a friend who has decided that his .223 and .243 have left him with a gap.... however, I'll also not tell a feller he DOESN'T need another rifle... he's going the fast twist route for reasons that I hope don't need explained(1:9), we'll be handloading for it so the options are quite varied. I'm curious though, if anyone has experience with a fast twist please help me out, how light can we go without shredding them? Obviously, the dogtown bullets will probably shred before they hit the target based on their performance with a standard twist, but say a quality nosler (excluding the varmageddon I think) or Speer or Sierra (excluding the blitzking?) Or hornady (excluding the sxsp) type bullet was used in a 50-55 class on days when he just wants to play with splosion factors on relatively close targets? Would these hold together? If not, what's the lightest you would go?
ETA twist could be 1:8 or 1:9 depending on which would be more beneficial, feel free to weigh in on which you would choose.
ETAA let's say the bullets in play are the 53vmax, 65 gameking, and 70 gmx (this one is purely optional and can be ruled out if a slower twist will give the gameking AND lightweight bullets an advantage)
ETA twist could be 1:8 or 1:9 depending on which would be more beneficial, feel free to weigh in on which you would choose.
ETAA let's say the bullets in play are the 53vmax, 65 gameking, and 70 gmx (this one is purely optional and can be ruled out if a slower twist will give the gameking AND lightweight bullets an advantage)
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