Spent the week in S E Colorado trying to reduce the quantity of grass eating creatures
for some local ranchers. I was using a 788 REM chambered for .222 and found some cast loads using the former Bator design ( blunt ogive) 55 grain g.c. in the bottom of my ammo bag. The load was either 12.0 gr 2400 or 14.0 gr 4227 but I couldn’t determine which as the sharpie marks had worn off the side of the zip lock bag.
Anyway, the p dawg doubled over and twitched a few times and expired. I had used these quite a bit several years back with about the same reaction from a well placed hit. Velocity is around 2 kfps and accuracy is about 1.5” at 100 yds. So about 150 yds range, if the wind is friendly. The relatively blunt nose just doesn’t seem to impart a whole lot of energy and I had to cast them pretty hard to get them to shoot.
Just thought someone might wonder about using them or something similar on the pasture poodles…