Barnes Varmint Grenade 36 gr Bullets

[hueyville]

Last order got several boxes of Barnes .224" 36 grain Varmint Grenades. As part of my obsessive compulsibe tendencies I opened all boxes and started weighing on my laboratory scales. I take the number of boxes I have and separate into same number of piles based on weight. Out of 300 bullets, I have over 100 that are identical weight to the resolution of my scales. I have been weighing bullets for decades and never seen the consistency that these bullets are. I have a light box, middle box and a heavy box. The middle box would usually have some variations in similar situation. But 115 are dead even on scales

 

[bluetopper]

I have over a thousand .224" 34gr Varmint Nightmare bullets sold by Midsouth. Very accurate bullets out of my 223 Thompson Contender handgun with 1:14 twist. At less than $45 per 500 I had to bite.

 

[spoogie]

Now if you can only get them to shoot. Seems like that's the only brand of bullet that I can't get to work as far as accuracy. Either I'm limited by mag length or patience.

-S

 

[cfullgraf]

Yes, i was disappointed with the performance with the Varmint Grenades in my 223 Remington and 221 Remington Fireball rifles.

 

[3006mv]

would these be good/better in .22 hornet?

 

[kingcheese]

They make a varmint grenade for hornets, i never hard a problem with my 36gr farming grenades, in my ar, Rossi, or my mvp, but i moved on to 53gr vmax, something about that red tip makes me all gigly

 

[dagger dog]

I've shot the 36 and 30 grain Barnes Varmint Grenade in the 22 Hornet at 2800-3000 fps they both are explosive, I shot a feral cat at 50 yrds with a 36 gr loaded to 2900 fps it did not exit.

I shoot the 50 gr Varmint grenade in 223 Rem, it gives the same performance on g'hogs out to 200 yds . It is a long for weight bullet and it gets very good accuracy out of a 1 in 9 twist barrel sub 2" groups @ 200yds with me shooting.

 

[hueyville]

Parasite, I use Midway Dogtown bullets in the 500 round package for same reason. Too cheap to not use. Et all: always has good accuracy out of Barnes .224 bullets regardless of weight though these Grenades are new to me. Closest weight tolerances I have seen in a while although lighter bullets usually are close. Best consistency I have ever seen across the board is Barnes solid copper bullets. I guess being machined makes for tight tolerances. I have noticed that even with my very average machining skills I can turn out very nice .50 bmg solid turned bullets.