I've done alot of shooting with both the remington 33 grain vmaxs and the winchester supreme black box (34 grain???). I would have thought the vmaxes would have been more distructive than the winchester funky looking hollow point (same designed hollowpoint as the Winny 223 white box varmint loads), but the winchester won at long distances. The vmaxes seemed to have a narrower velocity operating range, meaning when they slowed down to nnnn fps they didn't expand. The winchesters had to slow down alot more than nnnn fps before they quiet opening up, actually, I never did get one of the winchester supremes to not open.
When shooting out of a 6" 22 mag colt revolver at 15 yards the vmaxes, shot from the short pistol, didn't have the required velocity to blow up when going through an apple. I'd just fet a .22 hole in, approx .30 hole out. However the winchester black box ammo, even at the slower velocity, made apple sauce out of the apple, reminisent of shooting apples with my 223.
So ever since I've used the winchester black box supremes for my "blowup" load.
As far as accuracy at 50 yards, my sportster likes 1. winchester silver box, 2. winchester black box (close second, first some days), 3. Remington vmax, 4. cci anything - distant forth... My sportster doesn't like the cci stuff... :cry:
I mounted a 6-18x50mm scope on my sportster 22 mag for fall squirell season :eek: . If I can ever put down the nail gun long enough to sight in the scope I'll shoot some postal cards.... :wink: I doubt I'll hunt squirells with that big scope on there, but the big scope, harris br bipod, black sling, it's an extremely mean looking small game rifle!
later,
scruffy
