Thread: How fast/effective?

Originally Posted by The bomb

Have loaded some 150g SST Bullets in the .308 for bush hunting Sika and reds for my boy,trying to emulate the 7.62x39 using the .6 formula from Hodgdon as a youth load to reduce recoil for him, using AR2206h,how fast would they be going?looking to get around 2200fps -2400fps as a table I saw in old nz hunter mag reasons only has about 6.8lb of recoil but they use a 125g bullet.would they be ok out to 100m max expansion wise? Thanks

38.5Gr 2206h will give you around 2200Fps from a 16in barrel
Assuming case holds 56gr water and 2.8OAL cartridge length