22lr Remington Thunderbolt ammo

[To Old To Run]

Boone

With all that riding and all those shells you shoot, about how many bullets are you getting per mile.
I really would like to be your neighbor.  You would be a lot of fun to be around. 

[Woodchucker]

Cheap Remington thunderbolt will work for its purpose , bit filthy as all heck, and seems to expand poorly even for a standard nose round. Using them for varmints around the property and shot a woodchuck clean in the heart/ lung area and the sucker ran off, found minimal blood trail.

[CavScout]

Cheap Remington thunderbolt will work for its purpose , bit filthy as all heck, and seems to expand poorly even for a standard nose round. Using them for varmints around the property and shot a woodchuck clean in the heart/ lung area and the sucker ran off, found minimal blood trail.

Round nose lead bullets in just about any caliber from .38 down are notorious for anemic stopping power... thus the innovation of the hollow point/cavity bullet.

The problem with hollow nose designs is they depend on a complex series of physics and conditions to expand beyond caliber diameter.

An old school compromise to expanding bullets is the Semiwadcutter... ala Elmer Keith's bullet design:

http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_Chapter_12_KeithSWC.htm

The Semiwadcutter, like the Wadcutter, cuts a clean caliber size hole in paper targets. In tissue, there are two frontal flat surfaces... the bullet nose, and the Wadcutter step.

In Remington's 22LRT offerings, their Viper round uses a Semiwadcutter profile bullet:

http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/rimfire/22-rimfire/viper.aspx

CCI has a fairly new Small Game designated 22LR round called Velocitor:

http://www.cci-ammunition.com/products/detail.aspx?use=1&loadNo=0047

And, coincidentally, the CCI Velocitor is what I carry in my 1 5/8" 22LR Mini.

For reference, I carry Federal Premium V-SHOK  rounds in my Sidewinder:

https://www.federalpremium.com/products/details/rimfire.aspx?id=365

[Woodchucker]

I usually use hollow points for varmints but grabbed wrong magazine, also noticed that some thunderbolts will be hot and some will be underloaded