Thread: 22 cal hornady 55gr soft points

anyone had much experience shooting animlas with these? working up a few loads and my gun definietly likes them, they are cheap and I have access to a few thousand projectiles. curious to see what experince people have had shooting a deer with them, and before people get shitty my main hunting caliber is a 270.. mainly going to shoot goats with it but also wanting to neck shoot the odd fallow or red ( I know shot placement with a 223 is critical ) cheers

Work mint have shot lots of deer/pigs ect with them as u said shot placement is the key

My main projectile.
Works well, but as said before, you need to place your shots

They work well, up there as one of the better 55gr pills performance wise. Shot all sorts with them including a few really big bodied red stags. They are fine for chest shooting fallow too. Any tricky shots I usually just put it in the chest, saves blowing off a jaw/snout or missing the vertebrae and the animal just runing away.

Use them a lot.
Pretty much my go to pill in 22cal.
Wallaby drop and bunnies go pop.
Fallow drop quickly and reds with the right placement as well.
Tahr also fall over quite easily

hit sheep in head and the eyeballs go all bulgy like...great projectiles.

My go to pill for 222 as well.

One of the best , hit them right and they are yours.

They work really well. Do your part right and animals tip over. From my experience they work on; ferrets, rabbits, cats, wallabies, tahr, fallow, red hinds and spikers. Deer and tahr where shot at max of 150m.

They work well on goats out to 350m if driven with a warm load.

Here's one from a .223 at 180 yards. It ran about 30 yards, lung shot. Fallow doe.



It came to rest just under the skin on the far side.

@Tahr what is your recipe as I am about to start loading them for my 223 for doing some roo harvesting

Originally Posted by Ackley

@Tahr what is your recipe as I am about to start loading them for my 223 for doing some roo harvesting

26.5 grns W748. Start at 25 grns.

They work well at 25 grs of BM 2 under the 55 gr Hornady SP/WC also.

Yea, I'm using a similar charge weight in my Hawkeye with those nice little plain-jane Hornadys.
Awesome combo.