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Has anyone shot this thru a Saint Victor pistol and can you?

Agree! Too much twist and possibly grenade it in flight. I doubt it will have too little twist as most seem to be 1:7 or 1:8 these days.
My eagle arms H-bar is 1:9
 
It should not hurt the firearm, it just may not hit paper or be very inaccurate.

I remember an article where varmint Hunter was trying to work up a round with light bullets and basically he couldn't get it on paper until he took a friend out there with a spotting scope he couldn't see that the round was actually exploding midway to the paper. His twist rate on his rifle was tearing apart the thin skinned bullet before it could impact the target.
 
Pitdogg2 said:
It should not hurt the firearm, it just may not hit paper or be very inaccurate.

I remember an article where varmint Hunter was trying to work up a round with light bullets and basically he couldn't get it on paper until he took a friend out there with a spotting scope he couldn't see that the round was actually exploding midway to the paper. His twist rate on his rifle was tearing apart the thin skinned bullet before it could impact the target.
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Thanks I appreciate your answers
 
I remember many moons ago, I had some Hornady 50gr .224 diameter varmint bullets, might have been the SX line, anyway, back then, you could only load them so fast or they would come apart after leaving the barrel, I was using them for my Remington 700 VH in .222rem, loaded them at around 3000fps, I ran out or 55gr for my Ruger M77 Target in .220Swift and by accident grabbed a box of the 50gr that I used for the .222rem and loaded about 50 rounds to about 3900-4000 FPS, needless to say, I shot at paper to sight in, but never hit target. Took me a few minutes to figure out my error, the bullets we’re going to fast and just disintegrated in flight.
 
Annihilator said:
I remember many moons ago, I had some Hornady 50gr .224 diameter varmint bullets, might have been the SX line, anyway, back then, you could only load them so fast or they would come apart after leaving the barrel, I was using them for my Remington 700 VH in .222rem, loaded them at around 3000fps, I ran out or 55gr for my Ruger M77 Target in .220Swift and by accident grabbed a box of the 50gr that I used for the .222rem and loaded about 50 rounds to about 3900-4000 FPS, needless to say, I shot at paper to sight in, but never hit target. Took me a few minutes to figure out my error, the bullets we’re going to fast and just disintegrated in flight.
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Thanks for the reply
 
Annihilator said:
I remember many moons ago, I had some Hornady 50gr .224 diameter varmint bullets, might have been the SX line, anyway, back then, you could only load them so fast or they would come apart after leaving the barrel, I was using them for my Remington 700 VH in .222rem, loaded them at around 3000fps, I ran out or 55gr for my Ruger M77 Target in .220Swift and by accident grabbed a box of the 50gr that I used for the .222rem and loaded about 50 rounds to about 3900-4000 FPS, needless to say, I shot at paper to sight in, but never hit target. Took me a few minutes to figure out my error, the bullets we’re going to fast and just disintegrated in flight.
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Do you have any recommendations for a personal defense round for my Saint Victor pistol?
 
Newbie said:
Do you have any recommendations for a personal defense round for my Saint Victor pistol?
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I really can’t recommend anything, I do not have a AR pistol but, I have included a link that may help you some.

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Right.

A pistol is not going to grenade the bullet in flight, and likely won’t give it poor accuracy.

Bullets can shed the jackets when pushed too fast through too fast of a twist (if you've ever seen it, it’s neat...a small cloud of “smoke” appears downrange, mid flight...), but usually requires a velocity well north of 4000fps...which you are not going to get out of a pistol length barrel; you’d be lucky to break 3k, if that...so definitely not a worry.

Also, accuracy won’t suffer much...it’s hard to overstabilize a bullet to the point accuracy suffers; the problem is a too slow of a twist failing to properly stabilize the bullet, resulting in keyholing.

Honestly? It would probably work well at shorter ranges; it also wouldn’t be a bad choice for interior work, as that light, thin jacketed bullet will start to come apart if it hits a wall...should reduce stray round overpenetration.

But, there are better choices; I’d look at a 50-55gr ballistic tip, such as a Nosler or V-Max...or even a 45gr Winchester Silvertip.
 
HansGruber said:
Right.

A pistol is not going to grenade the bullet in flight, and likely won’t give it poor accuracy.

Bullets can shed the jackets when pushed too fast through too fast of a twist (if you've ever seen it, it’s neat...a small cloud of “smoke” appears downrange, mid flight...), but usually requires a velocity well north of 4000fps...which you are not going to get out of a pistol length barrel; you’d be lucky to break 3k, if that...so definitely not a worry.

Also, accuracy won’t suffer much...it’s hard to overstabilize a bullet to the point accuracy suffers; the problem is a too slow of a twist failing to properly stabilize the bullet, resulting in keyholing.

Honestly? It would probably work well at shorter ranges; it also wouldn’t be a bad choice for interior work, as that light, thin jacketed bullet will start to come apart if it hits a wall...should reduce stray round overpenetration.

But, there are better choices; I’d look at a 50-55gr ballistic tip, such as a Nosler or V-Max...or even a 45gr Winchester Silvertip.
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