Inconclusive proof...V-max/Varmint Grenade

[bagdadjoe]

V-max or Varmint Grenade, which works best? I shot two jugs at 169yds with my .22 Hornet Handi rifle. The jug on the left is the Varmint Grenade, and looks like more "blowed up real good" than the V-max. The VG is a 36gr, while the V-max is a 40. The polymer tip was still in the jug. Same dose of 1680AA powder.

The frontside shows that they both hit remarkably close to the same P.O.I., had to use two shots with the V-max when the right jug tried to crawl off.

I'm guessing a groundhog won't notice much difference. 

[PowPow]

looks like you bagged a "brace" of milk jugs; one male and one female.

[bagdadjoe]

hmmm, I did notice they had some little differences..... It's kind of like this couple I saw one time on the street... I was thinking they were "same sex"...I just couldn't tell which one.

[bigvarmnt]

Looks like the male was DRT I like the VGs so far. Some do some don't. The 36s have been good to me. I down loaded my 223 SL to about 2000 fps and used the 30 gr VGs and they did about the same thing to 1/2 gallon jugs at much closer range. Got a .8" 3 shot group at 100 yds. Only a quiet pop with no recoil. Nice little quiet back yard gun. Hope to test a little more soon. May work up to 2600 fps but like the little pop and destruction @ 2000 so far. More accurate than my 22 Mag. That's a good shootin Hornet. Do you know the twist of your barrel?
I REALLY DON'T WANT ONE!

[helotaxi]

Using the jug test, the 6mm 62gn Varmint Grenade is a hammer.  Even way out there.  Clean entry hole and the entire "back" of the jug in tatters.  Throws the jug several feet in the air out at 400yds or so.  On the whole quite the spectacular display.

[Swift One]

I love shooting milk jugs.  I really had an eye opener when shooting the milk jugs with my 7mm SMK bullets.  At 100yds, it was pretty much 7mm entry hole, 7mm exit hole. Which is now why I have switched to the SBTs. 7mm entry hole, gigantic explosion with violent water dispersion, and a big smile on my face.....

Another and sometimes more accurate way to test your bullets expansion properties is with the wet phone book test.  Take a couple of phone books (depending on how thick they are).  Tape them together, and then submerge them in water for about a minute.  Set it up at the range and shoot it.  The phone books tell QUITE a story as to what your bullet is doing.  Not quite as accurate as ballistic gelatin, but who in the h&ll has the money for that?

[helotaxi]

I don't know if there are enough phone books in my small town to stop a real bullet.  1/2" thick, maybe.  More like a phone pamphlet.

[bigvarmnt]

They started putting phone books on the ground by the mailboxes around here the other day. If they do that in your town just drive around and pick em up.
Everybody probably knows everyones number anyway

I have a few saved up and haven't got around to wetting them yet. Told the wife to stop throwing them away a couple years ago. Her dad passed away and had a few saved up. Been wondering what the Varmint Grenades would do in them.

[Swift One]

I don't know if there are enough phone books in my small town to stop a real bullet.

LOL...I hear ya.  One can substitue phone books with magazines also.

[Sourdough]

You know all those catalogs that come and no one knows why.  The ones full of stuff no one wants.  I have this box at the shed, and as I walk past from the mail box I just drop them in.  In a couple of weeks I have enough for a good target.

[Ladobe]

In my case the "proof" of any bullet is determined in the killing fields, not at the range.   Not too hard there to see what peforms "best" on what I intend them for, and at what ranges.   Sometimes the results were not what I previously thought they would be either and so changed which bullets became my go to for various useages.   
FWIW