bullets never quit match the 40 and 5o gr. Hornadys through them on deer and all my kids used them with that bullet on their first deer.They sure worked on a big muley at 100 yards away and even at 200 yards on rare ocassions.The 60 gr. I have owned a bunch of them over the years, I love the old Riihimakis with the roller safety, especially those sweet little Manlicher models, they are awesome. The Vixens are very well built rifles and in my opinion, a bargain at the prices asked for them on the auction sites. The Ramshot Exterminator glides right through my measure without a hitch. It just takes too much time when loading a couple of hundred rounds. I don't load it much anymore because you have to weigh every charge with that coarse grained powder. That load has been around for a long time, with good reason. 222, it would be the same 40 grain bullets over 21 grains of IMR 4198. If I had to pick the most accurate load for the two Vixens as well as my Remington. I like Ramshot powder because it meters so well and it is not temperature sensitive.
24 grains of Ramshot Exterminator will get you about 3400 fps and hopefully the sub 1" accuracy we get from ours. I load 40 grain V-Max and Ballistic Tips in both. It was his first center fire rifle and he learned to become a good shot with it. 222 and liked it so much I got another one for my son when he was eleven. 223 both have been used on antelope/deer sized game with success, but I believe you owe game animals more consideration when hunting them. I have never shot the heavier 60 grain bullets at all, finding the best velocities, accuracy and explosive characteristics with these light bullets.Ī Partition is a game bullet and I don't see much use for a.
223 as well as in my 220 Swift with great accuracy and overall reliability. 223 and even more, possibly 10's of thousands of 50 grain Remington PLHP bullets in both. 223 or the 6mm as his Lightweight is so accurate.Īll that said, I have shot 1000's of 55 grain soft point bullets in the. 223 in heavy barrel, and a single shot 6mm PPC. I have another friend that I convinced to buy Sakos, he has 3.a. I have owned and shot several Sako L461's in both standard and deluxe models in. I have 2 custom made rifles using the older Riihimaki actions because of the excellence in their manufacture as well. The guns themselves are notoriously accurate and extremely well made. They don't make the L461 any more and the "Vixen" is a designation that Sako had put on their shortest action made until the newer models after Stoeger started importing them. Sako Vixens are probably the best production actions available.