Spied my reloading manual sitting around, and out of curiosity I began to flip through it, thinking, 'okay, if they've recovered fragments of the round, and it looks like a 55gr bullet, what else could it be?' My findings:

22 HORNET 45gr .224" 2425fps-fast enough to fragment
218 BEE 46gr (cannulured!) .224" 2466fps
222 REM same cannulured bullet as the .223 at 2900+ fps
222 REM MAG same cannulured bullet as .223 at 3400+ fps
22 PPC rare benchrest wildcat - 55gr .224" 3100+fps
225 WIN same cannulured bullet as .223 at 3000+ fps
22-250 REM 55gr .224" 3100+fps
220 SWIFT 55gr .224" 3300+fps

If you're going to go through all the trouble of sorting through 4473's for .223 in the area (like that's really going to turn anything up - especially since you'd have to get casings from each and every one to match the red herring the sicko left for you to find), you might as well harrass the varmint hunters and benchrest guys with their exotic bolt action rifles as well...


PrudentGT





PrudentGT
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Location: sunny Rancho Cordova, Kalifornia

Er.. what are you on about sixgun?

if he is a gun buff than he probably would know how to make his own bullets?

Making bullets is trickey, making the actual round is easy enough we do it up here all the time but getting the casing right is the problem and the mixture.

I just wanted to point out that it is presumption to say it is a .223 when it could be any .22 centerfire chambering.

It might not even be a rifle, it may be a scoped single shot pistol like the T/C Contender.


BTW, I do cast my own bullets and I handload my own cartridges. Check out this website for more details on my hobby.

Handloading

hehe... he likes to handload his own cartridge.

Of course I do!

I can "roll my own" cheaper and more accurrate than storebought ammunition.

http://www.reloadammo.com/
http://www.reload-nrma.com/
http://leeprecision.com/

and yet another thought provoking and poingnant post by Lassie.