Hornady 30 cal 208g

ewallace · #8 08-07-2006, 09:59 AM

Bill
What twist is your rifle

ewallace · #9 08-07-2006, 10:08 AM

50
I will keep you up to date with my findings I will be putting it in a 9" torque block so I can move the barrel from one rifle to the other with out to much work. I think it will shoot better in the HG stock because it tracks better and is #35 heaver. We will see [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

bailey1474 · #10 08-07-2006, 10:46 AM

1-10" 4 groove Lilja

ewallace · #11 08-07-2006, 10:53 AM

Bill
I would think your barrel would shoot the 210g class good what bullets will it shoot?

bailey1474 · #12 08-07-2006, 12:22 PM

I know. It seems strange to me as well.

A year or so ago, Richard sent me some 210 gr bullets that had a straight taper nose profile on them. Those things shot lights out but the BC on them was pretty low. I then got some of his ULD RBBT 210s and could not get them to do much better than 1 MOA. Same w/the 208 gr AMax. Seems maybe that length of bullet just doesn't agree w/this bbl.

It shoots the 240 SMK @ about .25 MOA out to 500 yds or so. That is as far as I've tested it. I shot @ that steel plate Lerch posted pics of 2 times @ 650 yds and they were about 1" apart. I was shooting it @ 2850 fps w/Retumbo but it looks like US869 is going to give me 3075-3100 fps w/the same .25 MOA accuracy.

remingtonman_25_06 · #13 08-07-2006, 01:03 PM

208g amax? I was thinking the same thing. So whats the deal with those? Will us normal people ever be getting to put those downrange. I always thought hornady shoulda came out with a higher weight amax then a 178g for 308 cal. Looks like they might????

remingtonman_25_06 · #14 08-07-2006, 01:03 PM

208g amax? I was thinking the same thing. So whats the deal with those? Will us normal people ever be getting to put those downrange. I always thought hornady shoulda came out with a higher weight amax then a 178g for 308 cal. Looks like they might????