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<blockquote data-quote="kweidner" data-source="post: 996775" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I too was a Barnes or Berger only until a year ago. I now exclusively swage my own. If I didn't have the tooling, I would use a berger for that particular scenario. As a matter of fact my swage dies are modeled after the VLD except I use a rebated boat tail. I have a .308 I use for just 5-600, It is a flatbase though and is lights out accurate to 850 with that long secant ogive. Effective killing range to 600. Making it a boat tail really doesn't increase it's effective killing range that far due to it's really high bc in flatbase form. I have found flatbases more accurate to around 600yds. After that boat tails take over but in your scenario in .308 is pushing the energy envelope anyway i would use at least the 168 berger maybe even the 175 as it should stabilize in that twist. Berger is a bang flop affair at distance that is why I modeled my bullets after them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kweidner, post: 996775, member: 4964"] I too was a Barnes or Berger only until a year ago. I now exclusively swage my own. If I didn't have the tooling, I would use a berger for that particular scenario. As a matter of fact my swage dies are modeled after the VLD except I use a rebated boat tail. I have a .308 I use for just 5-600, It is a flatbase though and is lights out accurate to 850 with that long secant ogive. Effective killing range to 600. Making it a boat tail really doesn't increase it's effective killing range that far due to it's really high bc in flatbase form. I have found flatbases more accurate to around 600yds. After that boat tails take over but in your scenario in .308 is pushing the energy envelope anyway i would use at least the 168 berger maybe even the 175 as it should stabilize in that twist. Berger is a bang flop affair at distance that is why I modeled my bullets after them. [/QUOTE]
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