Originally Posted By: B23Originally Posted By: obaroI have shot a lot of the 24grn NTX bullets in my 20 Prac with good results. Relatively mild charge of H4198. Shooting mixed brass and Rem 7 1/2 primers, getting good accuracy and terminal results. Definitely don't have the terminal performance as traditional bullets on varmints, but still does pretty good.
The people I've talked to who are shooting the 24gr NTX bullet said they don't expand as much as say a V-max bullet does so they're less explosive on small critters. Has this been your experience as well??
Well, just my opinion, they expand/come apart pretty well, but they don't deliver the 'thump' that their leaded counterparts do. Mind you, this is just my theory based on my own observations and experience, but since they have less mass there is less energy transfer at similar velocity, but also, where they are a compressed metallic POWDER that is designed to disintegrate on impact the energy transfer doesn't go as 'deep' into the critter it hits. I have shot a lot of prairie dogs with them and there is no doubt they are killers, but just don't seem to do it quite as convincingly as the lead bullets. Seems to me that they come apart 'too much' if that makes any kinda sense. I know that on about 15-20 coyotes I shot with them that I could almost count on a runner if I shot it in the boiler room. They wouldn't get too far, but I don't remember any DRT's either.