204 vs 223 vs 22-250 vs 17 hornet when it comes to avoiding splash hits

hello everyone and welcome back today we're going to be looking at the 204 ruger the 223 remington and the 22 250 and even a little bit of the 17 hornet when it comes to the idea of splash hits splash hits what are they and how to avoid them that's what we're talking about today number one what is a splash hit a splash hit would be when you're out hunting coyotes for example you hit the coyote you know you hit him right where you're supposed to hit him and he runs off anyway what might have gone wrong what most likely went wrong is that you were shooting a bullet that was blazing fast with speed but didn't have a lot of bullet weight behind it to punch through so yes there was a very explosive round but it was more of a surface explosion it didn't punch deep enough to hit vitals well how do you avoid that well the conventional wisdom has always been move up into maybe a little bit bigger caliber or at least shoot a heavier bullet in that same caliber so in other words if you're shooting 204 ruger and you're shooting one of the heaviest bullets you can already shoot which would be like a 40 grain v-max for example how might you solve it you could go into a 2-2-3 remington or a 22-250 and start shooting a 50 grain or a 55 grain vmax that's at least been the conventional wisdom we'll experiment with that today we'll see if that solves the problem or not and if it does solve the problem to what degree is it solving the problem but there's another type of ballistic tip bullet that people maybe haven't heard a lot of which is the winchester ballistic silver tip so in other words one of the most common ballistic tip bullets is the hornady v-max bullets they're great bullets i'm not knocking them but you have to remember when you're shooting a hornady v-max bullet that's what they do they're explosive by nature they're not bad bullets they're just doing what they were designed to do and that's explode pretty much right away but winchester on the other hand with their ballistic silver tip they've designed a ballistic tip bullet to punch a little deeper at least that's what they're telling us we're going to put that to the test and see how that would compare to a hornady v-max and then lastly one way of overcoming splash hits might just be to switch from a ballistic tip bullet altogether into a good old-fashioned hollow point bullet people tend to forget the hollow-point bullets are designed to have some amount of weight retention to them so let's just see if a little bit of good old-fashioned weight retention doesn't just solve the problem of splash hits as well so if you like today's video please remember to click the like button do subscribe turn on the notifications icon and let us know which of these bullets you've had the best success with thanks again okay moving from left to right what you're looking at is a 40 grain vmax bullet 204 ruger next you've got a 55 grain vmax bullet this is on the hornady varmint express that is a 223 next you've got a 50 grain bullet sitting on top of a 22 250 that's another warning dv max bullet 55 grain hornady v-max bullet sitting on top of another 22-250 this is a 55-grain ballistic tip bullet sitting on top of a winchester ballistic silver tip this is a 45 grain jacketed hollow point sitting on top of another 22 250 and then lastly you've got a 25 grand hollow point sitting on top of a 17 hornet okay what you're looking at now is the bullets themselves that if you were to pull these bullets apart this is what you would find here is your uh 40 grain vmax 204 ruger your 50 grain vmax bullet another 55-grain v-max here you've got your 55-grain ballistic tip that goes on top of your winchester ballistic silver tip here you've got your 45-grain jacket of hollow-point now what's interesting is even though i pulled these four bullets off of a 22 250 i could have used 223 ammunition and pulled the exact same bullets off of 223 and then lastly you've got a 17 hornet 25 grain hollow point all right just taking a look at the bullets by themselves you've got your 40 grain 204 ruger this is your 40 grain vmax take a look at the boat tail design on the bottom it's a longer boat tail design than what you would see on your 50 grain 22 caliber bullet right next to it notice that these two bullets are almost the identical length the 50 grain 22 cal and the 40 grain 20 caliber bullet then when you move along to the 55 grain vmax bullet notice they have a flat base on the bottom now these two bullets over here their ballistic coefficient is helped out quite a bit by that boat tail design it's not that they didn't care about a good ballistic coefficient with that 55 grain bullet but they went with a flat base design because if they did taper the bullet you might have been getting into an even longer bullet design and the length of that bullet maybe wasn't going to stabilize so good in a 22 250 which typically has a pretty slow twist then on your 55 grain winchester ballistic silver tip they do have a very small boat tail design on the bottom and then on your 45 grain and 25 grain bullets you're back to a flat base bottom okay so out of the six bullets that we're about to go out and test only three of them had any weight retention at all at the end of the day you've got a penny here for comparison's sake and for those of you who are wondering why the 17 hornet was even in this equation at all one of these three bullets is in fact the 17 hornet give you a chance to think about that and we'll show you in a minute which one it is all right these are the six different ammunition choices that we'll be shooting today we'll start with the 204 ruger 40 grain v-max that's the hornady superformance they claim 3 900 feet per second is the velocity i'm chronographing them right around 36.89 feet per second which at the muzzle that's about 1208 foot-pounds worth of energy but more importantly though what kind of speed and energy will it have at 100 yards which is where the targets will be set up at it should arrive with about 32 91 feet per second worth of speed 962 foot-pounds of energy now it's important when you're trying to avoid splash hits to always remember this when we slow the bullets down just a little bit they tend to be less explosive if they're less explosive they may punch a little bit deeper now the next bullet up will be the 22 250 50 grain vmax even though it's just a little bit faster than that 204 ruger at the start at the muzzle at 100 yards now it's about 20 or 21 feet per second slower 3270 compared to 32.91 it will have a lot more energy though 1187 foot-pounds of energy then we're going to slow it down a little bit further and we're going to add some bullet weight again we'll shoot the 22 250 55 grain vmax at 100 yards it should arrive with about 3 000 feet per second worth of speed and approximately 1100 foot-pounds worth of energy then we're going to move into the 55 grain winchester ballistic silver tip at 100 yards it is a little faster 32 18 feet per second worth of speed at 100 yards 1264 foot pounds worth of energy next we'll shoot the 22 250 45 grain hollow point now these bullets here are nearly 4 100 feet per second at the muzzle from what i've been chronographing but by the time they get out there to 100 yards they're down to about 34 10 feet per second 1160 foot pounds worth of energy and lastly we're going to shoot a lighter bullet which is the 17 hornet now it's only 25 grains worth of bullet weight but we have slowed it down this one will be arriving at with about 28 51 feet per second worth of speed at 100 yards 451 foot pounds overall so it's going to be a slower moving bullet and it will be a hollow point to help out with penetration depths we'll just see what happens on that we'll be shooting at these water jugs distance 100 yards using a 204 ruger 40 grain vmax hornady soup performance all right these are the water jugs that were just now hit at 100 yards with a 204 ruger using the 40 grain hornady super performance it appears that the first water jug is pretty well you know demolished uh water jug number two it's a little wet probably from water jug number one splashing on it but from what i can tell other than some moisture on the outside no real damage it does maybe look like there's a spot where maybe a fragment of the bullet wanted to go in has a little leak there but i don't think anything made it to the inside we'll take a peek here uh looks like it's from what i can tell pretty well cleaned out on the inside no real bullet fragment went in there from what i can tell i'll be shooting at these water jugs distance 100 yards using a 22 250 hornady varmint express 50 grain vmax bullet all right these are the water jugs that were just now hit at 100 yards of the 22 250 hornady varmint express 50 grain vmax bullet water jug number one is kind of still here it was literally blowing in half i'm not sure where the other half is they're probably going to get me for littering on this one water jug number two you can see some type of bullet fragment went in there we had some hydrostatic damage on the side of water jug number two and when we look inside of water jug number two i don't know if you can see that on camera or not but there is just a real small bullet fragment still in water jug number two and that's about it we'll be shooting at these water jugs from a distance of 100 yards with a 22-250 using a 55 grain v-max bullet by fielke [Music] okay walking up right now to the water jugs that were just now headed 100 yards with a 22 250 55 grain vmax bullet as you can see there's really not much left from water jug number one at all now what's interesting about water jug number two it's half full half empty from what i can tell though no bullet fragments actually went in there but there is you know some pretty good damage right there on the side as you can tell but again i don't think any water or i don't think any bullets made it in there i think that's just sheer energy shock causing that damage let's take a look inside to be sure from what i can tell there isn't even the slightest bullet fragment inside of water jug number two we'll be shooting these water jugs from a distance of 100 yards with a 22 250 55 grain winchester ballistic silver tip all right these are the water jugs that were just now hit at a distance of 100 yards so the 22 250 using the 55 grain ballistic silver tip by winchester the first water jug pretty much blown to pieces more pieces of it over there this second water jug looks like some really good penetration happened you can tell that different bullet fragments had already or the bullet already fragmented and gone in there and some pretty good damage there pretty good damage on the back end it looks like there are a few small bullet fragments down in water jug number two water jug number three we have looks like an entry there nothing went out of water jug number three and when i look down in there it looks like the core of that bullet is still intact inside of water jug number three we'll take a look at that in a moment here all right here's what's left of that 22 250 55 grain bullet the small little pieces came out of water jug number two and then the largest piece that core that came out of water jug number three i'm not sure what that really weighs maybe 10 grains or so maybe 15 grains tops was still remaining we'll weigh that when we get home and find out for sure we'll be shooting at these water jugs distance 100 yards with a 22-250 with a 45 grain jacketed hollow point by winchester okay these are the water jugs that were just not hit at 100 yards with a 22 250 45 grain jacketed hollow point as you can see right over there there's a small part of it left a small part of water jug number one right there and over there another small part of water jug number one so it really just took it apart pretty badly however on water jug number two it looks like we may have some penetration here that looks like something made it in there let's see if we can uh open up this cap as we open up the cap a lot of water starts gushing out of there and there's definitely bullet fragments a good amount of bullet fragment and water jug number two okay here is what remains of the 45 grain jacketed hollow point 22 250. it's going to flip that over it started off as 25 it saw 45 grains i don't know how much that weighs but it's not 45 grains that's for sure it might be 20 or 25 grains maybe 30 grains at the most we'll weigh that when we get home and find out for sure how much weight retention was left on that we'll be shooting these water jugs from a distance of 100 yards with a 17 hornet 25 grain hollow point okay so these are the water jugs that just now got hit at 100 yards with a 17 hornet 25 crane hollow point the first water jug in line trying to reconstruct this i'm look i'm guessing it got hit pretty much dead center and then on the back side it would appear that that's probably the exit hole as i best guess entry hole into water jug number two right there it appears that water jug number two does not have an exit and that is the truth no damage into water jug number three and uh do we have any bullet fragments in there uh yeah we do have some bullet fragment in there we'll see if we can pour that out in a moment okay so this is what is left of the 25 grain hollow point 17 winchester super mag you flip that over that's the back side of it uh probably maybe 50 percent bullet retention if i had to guess all right so you can now maybe see the advantage of either the ballistic silver tip or just shooting a good old-fashioned hollow point bullet you've got your ballistic silver tip right here there's at least a solid core left to it for deeper penetration here you've got your 45 grain jacketed hollow point and over here you have your 17 hornet [Music]

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Length: 20min 27sec (1227 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 01 2020