223 ammo

[quicksilver 0]

What's the best type of 223 ammo for foxes that will fragment and reduce the risk of exiting the fox.

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Ballistic tipped.

[JonathanL 4]

What's the best type of 223 ammo for foxes that will fragment and reduce the risk of exiting the fox.

 

Something with a Nosler Ballistic-Tip or Hornady V-Max or similar.

[Mr_Logic 5]

Generally, they will still exit the fox though, but you definitely do reduce this.

 

With the hornet, the 35gr v-max rarely exits.

[grahamfarmer 1]

quick silver,

 

any balistic tipped ammo is better than soft point much depends on weather you reload or use factory fodder another option is to go for 40 grain heads if you can find them or fifties if no balistic tipped is available then some of the light hollow point offering are quite explosive on inpact and wont exit if they hit bone.

[Deker 3,478]

Generally, they will still exit the fox though, but you definitely do reduce this.

 

With the hornet, the 35gr v-max rarely exits.

 

Like he said, you will commonly find the .223 ballistic tips do go right through the fox, even if you hit bone the odds are, bullet fragments or all of it will still go right through.

 

But on the whole they are the best bet for destruction and reduced onward bullet travel!

[JonathanL 4]

Generally, they will still exit the fox though, but you definitely do reduce this.

 

With the hornet, the 35gr v-max rarely exits.

 

Like he said, you will commonly find the .223 ballistic tips do go right through the fox, even if you hit bone the odds are, bullet fragments or all of it will still go right through.

 

But on the whole they are the best bet for destruction and reduced onward bullet travel!

 

Depending upon how much work/investment you're prepared to put in there is another alternative. You can get swaging dies to make .22 bullets using fired .22RF brass for the jacket. This is obviously very thin and apparently results in dramatic terminal performance.

 

A lot of work to go to though.

[rioulike 2]

have used 40g v-max hornadys and found they dont realy exit on broadside shots most of the time but hit a few in the skull and

[JohnGalway 1,043]

have used 40g v-max hornadys and found they dont realy exit on broadside shots most of the time but hit a few in the skull and

 

I use the same, as rioulike says they don't exit a lot of the time.

[rjimmer 4]

I remember once hitting a fox in the chest front-on with the .308 at about 50 yrds.

The bullet didn't exit and when I picked it up by the tail, it was like picking up a plastic bag full of water.

That was either with a 125grn Nosler ballistic tip or a 150grn Samson soft point.

[riohog 5,725]

hornady 50gn sx super explosive just load them under 34000fps ,very thin jackets any faster and it can strip the jacket off the ogive

[brno17 5]

hornady 50gn sx super explosive just load them under 34000fps ,very thin jackets any faster and it can strip the jacket off the ogive

 

34000 sorry mate couldnt resist

[Deker 3,478]

hornady 50gn sx super explosive just load them under 34000fps ,very thin jackets any faster and it can strip the jacket off the ogive

 

34000 sorry mate couldnt resist

 

Does the barrel get very hot???