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6.5 creedmoor????
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 973810" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>This is a long range hunting site so the long high BC bullets tend to be favored - like the 140 grain Berger VLDs for example however there is nothing wrong with lighter bullets though I do admit I tend to load the high BC stuff. I have a couple of 6.5 mm rifles (260 Rem, 26 Nosler). I use the 140 grain Hornady AMAX as my target load in the 260, I also load the 95 grain VMAX for the occasional varmit/plinking. For hunting I like tough bullets but still want all the BC I can get so load the 127 grain Barnes LRX. I'm running that bullet at 3,450 fps out of the 26 Nosler and 2,750 fps out of the 260 Rem. Obviously I'm getting a bit more range out of the Nosler.</p><p> </p><p>Let me mention a short tale regards short bullets. I wanted to test a scope on my 7mm WSM but didn't want to use up my 180 Begers which are kind of scarce right now. I noticed that I had 20 each 140 grain Nosler Partitions that were pulled out of a box of ammo that was bought by a friend just to get the brass. I grabbed those and some H4831SC which I have a lot of and threw together some loads. These bullets are relatively stubby flat based low BC bullets but... they grouped 0.098" at 100 yards. The rifle is a Savage 12FV that I stuck a Brux barrel on. It does 0.5 MOA with the Bergers but it has never done even close to 0.1". Needless to say I will be buying some more of those and I have a renewed interest in flat based bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 973810, member: 63138"] This is a long range hunting site so the long high BC bullets tend to be favored - like the 140 grain Berger VLDs for example however there is nothing wrong with lighter bullets though I do admit I tend to load the high BC stuff. I have a couple of 6.5 mm rifles (260 Rem, 26 Nosler). I use the 140 grain Hornady AMAX as my target load in the 260, I also load the 95 grain VMAX for the occasional varmit/plinking. For hunting I like tough bullets but still want all the BC I can get so load the 127 grain Barnes LRX. I'm running that bullet at 3,450 fps out of the 26 Nosler and 2,750 fps out of the 260 Rem. Obviously I'm getting a bit more range out of the Nosler. Let me mention a short tale regards short bullets. I wanted to test a scope on my 7mm WSM but didn't want to use up my 180 Begers which are kind of scarce right now. I noticed that I had 20 each 140 grain Nosler Partitions that were pulled out of a box of ammo that was bought by a friend just to get the brass. I grabbed those and some H4831SC which I have a lot of and threw together some loads. These bullets are relatively stubby flat based low BC bullets but... they grouped 0.098" at 100 yards. The rifle is a Savage 12FV that I stuck a Brux barrel on. It does 0.5 MOA with the Bergers but it has never done even close to 0.1". Needless to say I will be buying some more of those and I have a renewed interest in flat based bullets. [/QUOTE]
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