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Offline HGunner

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Hornady 200 XTP in a Winchester 92?
« on: October 25, 2012, 02:54:36 PM »

Does anyone load the Hornady 200 grain XTP in a Winchester 92 44-40?  I read an article awhile back suggesting that this was safe with a pretty stiff dose of 2400 pushing the bullet to 1400+ fps.  It's a rifle from the 20's in very good working condition but I am concerned about the bullet being a little oversized resulting in excessive pressure.  Any thoughts?

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Re: Hornady 200 XTP in a Winchester 92?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 06:05:26 PM »
Assuming you are talking about the .427 old bullet diameter with the .429 of the XTP. I looked in some of my old Winchester catalogs, I have them back to the 20's and they show a .429 jacketed bullet in their loaded ammo of 200gr. From a 60 year old Lyman manual #38, they also show a jacketed bullet but not the diameter or brand in 200 grs using 2400. The data says For Rifles ONLY. Peaked out they have 23.5grs 2400 under their bullet which they say is at 1700'ps. Factory jacketed ammo was at 1330'ps per my catalogs. I don't know how hard you want to push that Winchester. I don't push mine at all. I quit using jacketed ammo in all of the oldies as barrel life is shorter on the old steel with jacketed bullets. So it's kinda "It's yer rifle, do what ya wanna do" kinda thing. I'd probably be happy some where around 1200'ps with an XTP. FWIW, Hornady recommends velocities of no more than 1500'ps with that bullet.

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Re: Hornady 200 XTP in a Winchester 92?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2012, 05:15:47 AM »
If the .430 XTPs are too big would it be safe to resize the XTPs to .427 using a LEE sizer?  This would be a lot cheaper than buying the Winchester 200 grain JSPs (the XTP's are about $12 cheaper per 100).  I want to use the rifle for deer hunting this season.