Thread: Help needed for 308 subsonic load

Originally Posted by lmlalong

tru. do you reckon jacked projectile at subsonic speed will expand? if i push 220gr at same speed as 151gr(lets say 1050), i will definitely choose the heavier 220, more energy. but if it wont expand that will be useless.

There are other guys here far more qualified to comment like @tikka and a few others than I but when I was playing with subs in 308 years ago the only jacketed projectiles that would expand were pistol hornady xtp? 90gr....they definitely expand but my testing on game was very limited to a couple of pigs and a couple of goats all at less than 50y and they definitely expanded and all 4 exited.
Now if doing the same I would be looking at Roberts 150 hollow point or the flash segmented projectile if useing on game was the end goal.

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