204 Ruger vs 22-250 vs clay blocks at 200 yards

getting ready to shoot this 10-pound block of clay with a 22-250 at a distance of 200 yards and as part of that process i'm zeroing the rifle i couldn't find the bullet hole from 200 yards with my spotting scope so i drove up to see where i'm at and apparently we're zeroed hello everyone and welcome back these are the four bullets that we'll be shooting today at a distance of 200 yards at some blocks of clay on the far left you're looking at a 204 ruger 32 grain b-max then you're looking at another 204 ruger with a 40 grain v-max on top of that one next it's a 22-250 50 grain b-max and on the far right you're looking at another 22-250 with a 45-grain jacketed hollow point on top of that one we'll start by taking a quick look at the numbers and then we'll go right out into the field and we'll do some shooting to see how those numbers might translate when we take them off the paper and start to apply them in the real world if you liked today's video by all means please remember to click the like button do subscribe turn on the notifications icon if you haven't already done so and as always we're looking forward to your comments we thank you again here are the bullets that we'll be shooting out there today we'll be shooting the 204 ruger 32 grain vmax the manufacturer says that that will have a velocity of 42.25 feet per second at the muzzle and that might be true for other people's rifles but when i chronograph them i've got them coming in at about 39 53 feet per second meaning that they're about six and a half percent below the box claims when we shoot the 204 ruger 40 grain vmax the manufacturer advertises 3 900 feet per second at the muzzle i've got them coming in at about 36.89 feet per second so about five and a half percent below the box claim when we shoot the 22 250 45 grain hollow point the manufacturer says that they're doing about 4 000 feet per second at the muzzle i have found that they are telling the truth and then some i've got those things coming in at about 4075 feet per second so they're about 2 percent above the box claim then when we shoot the 22 250 50 grain vmax the manufacturer says 3 800 feet per second at the muzzle i'm finding close to that 37 23 feet per second so about two percent shy of what the manufacturer claim uh claim is but most importantly how will they be doing when they arrive at 200 yards the bullet with the most amount of energy will be the 22 250. it's going to have 910 foot pounds of energy at 200 yards so should we just simply bet on that one and forget it or do we say that the 204 ruger 40 grain vmax might be the winner because it's going to have the most amount of speed 29 29 feet per second worth of speed when it arrives at 200 or do we say that we're not going to bet on any of these vmax bullets we're going to bet on the 22 250 45 grain jacketed hollow point even though it does not have the most amount of speed it doesn't have the most amount of foot pounds of energy it does have a very different bullet construction it's a jacketed hollow point everything else here is a v max so that might yield very different results or lastly do we simply bet on the 204 ruger 32 grain vmax even though it does not have the most amount of energy it has the least amount of energy there is something about that 32 grain vmax that always surprises me whenever i count it out so it'll be interesting to see what happens out there today we'll be shooting this block of clay at a distance of 200 yards with the 204 ruger the ammunition will be the hornady superformance 32 grain vmax walking up right now to the 10 pound block of clay that was hit at 200 yards with the 204 ruger 32 gray and v-max that hornady suit performance seems to work this is what it looks like on the side some of the bullet frag and here's the back of it by the way some of the bullet fragments did make it through to the water jug none of it made it through to the second water jug we'll take a look in here and see if we can find any small bullet fragments i might stand corrected maybe it looks like no bullet fragments made it through there at all but it was just the sheer force that caused this water jug to open up it was just the sheer force of this thing hitting it most of the bullets are into fragments in here on the bottom here's a little flake of a bullet right here still left but that's pretty much all that's left to it right there we'll be shooting at this block of clay from a distance of 200 yards with a 204 ruger using the 40 grain vmax hornady [Music] superformance [Music] walking up right now to the target that was just hit at a distance of 200 yards with a 204 ruger 40 grain v-max hornady soup performance before we get to the target it looks like we can probably see some spots of clay on the ground and based upon that orange sticker there it would appear that i connected at least somewhere close to dead center it did not go through to the water jug though water jug is unharmed not even dirty it just seemed to really deposit all of its energy sideways up and down i mean some of the clay certainly landed all around as you might have seen some of the clay got pushed through the crate so from here so from there to there that's probably about 15 or 16 inches wide on the cavity here's the back side and move this out of the way it just didn't quite get through there though let's see if we can pick this thing up see what the underside might look like you can see little fragments of bullet that split apart when it hit on the underside well there may not be much underside to look at guys you can see how some of it got pushed through the crate for sure but might not be much underside to look at other than that if you look real close there's some clay down there that just flew from the top crate down to the bottom we'll be shooting at this 10-pound block of clay from a distance of 200 yards with a 22-250 using a 50-grain vmax hornady varmint express walking up right now to the 10-pound block of clay that was just hit at a distance of 200 yards with a 22-250 using the 50-grain v-max bullet hornady varmint express it looks like the water jugs behind the clay are unharmed yeah nice and full it looks like all of the energy from that bullet was deposited into the clay so from this side of it here over to this side here uh maybe 15 16 17 inches something like that it's even give you a different angle on it and here is the uh looks like there might be some little pieces of bullet jacket that are still in there small pieces of bullet fragment it definitely pushed the clay through the crate pretty well maybe some blocks of clay down in there let's move this water jug and on the back side there you have it we'll be shooting at this 10-pound block of clay from a distance of 200 yards with a 22-250 using a 45-grain jacketed hollow-point from winchester so walking up right now to the 10 pound block of clay that was just hit at a distance of 200 yards with a 22 250 using a 45 grain jacketed hollow point by winchester it appears that it did not go through to the water jugs pretty much unharmed it certainly flattened out the clay there's no doubt about that there is some small bullet fragment there let's take a look at the back side of it it appears that the bullet really tried to get through there though it looks like that is what's left of the 45 grain jacketed hollow point see if we can look at it from this side yep that's what's left of it so it almost almost got through the clay and as far as the underside goes let's peel this up ah you can see it really pushed it through the crate pretty solid there distance 200 yards 25.4 power zoom 45 grand jacketed hollow point by winchester 50 grain v-max 200 yards [Music] you

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Keywords: 204 Ruger vs 22-250 vs clay at 200 yards, 204 ruger, 204 Ruger, 22-250, 22-250 Remington, 223, clay, clay block, clay block test, 9mm, 22lr, hornady, cz 527

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Length: 14min 30sec (870 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 19 2021