Am88 wrote:Wondering if anyone has had any experience with these? They are a premium bullet. I just a rather nice conversation with the owner/maker whatever and he seemed to really know his stuff. Thinking of trying some in .308 and .222.
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Am88 wrote:Hmmm well I managed to speak to him on the phone and he was quite helpful. Blade racer he reccomended the 36gr in .224, it would be a general hunting bullet. It's the main rifle I have with me most times, cats, dogs, dog meat, he also said that head shooting deer would not be an issue. The load data he provides suggests 3600 FPS roughly with the 36gr bullets with 2207.
Sungazer that's not a good result nor good news, bugger.
SCJ I was mainly looking at .308 bullets and just happened to start discussing the different methods used on Chital up here using the .222 ie. Head shooting, hence he brought up the 36grs. But the .308 will be used for Chital as well. More so the larger models, and sambar when I travel to VIC later this year. He recommended the 140's would be all necessary. It's more of a curiosity as my local shop had a box of 7mm bullets there today and they looked pretty wicked. I'm always up for supporting someone trying something.
Am88 wrote:Hey bladeracer i haven't personally tried it but the gentleman I bought the rifle off gave me his load data as well, his father was shooting the 55gr Sierra game king #1365 in front of 23grs of 2206H and he sent photos of the testing. Shot extremely well.
I'm more so concerned about the 30 cal. I have seen some info regarding Barnes TSX and TTSX which is why I was looking for something else. They were talking about expansion issues the exit wound not creating large enough exit wound channel.
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Bill wrote:Im doing testing with the Outer edge projectiles atm and the signs are very promising, stil finding whats safe in terms of max loads as they are lighter weight of all coppper versus cup n core isnt covered by any available reloading data.
My 6.5 Grendel didnt show much potential with 100gr TTSX because they have to be seated so deeply. In my opinion the OEP have a much better designed ogive for the Grendel. BC for the OEP s**ts all over the Barnes being almost 0.1 higher for simialr weight. Testing to date has also show accuracy to atleast 30-50% better than TTSX's.
Hoping to find max loads this week out of my 20 inch Howa Mini, I had zero pressure signs pushing 103 gr OEP HP to 2800fps and 113gr OEP BBT (BC 0.475) to 2600fps, I'm hoping I can push these to around 2700fps which should be a very handy Fallow load out to 500m.