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Horizontal stringing over distance
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<blockquote data-quote="agrodgers" data-source="post: 1439955" data-attributes="member: 46003"><p>Thanks for the suggestions. Looking around this and other sites at the terminal characteristics for the Berger's, there seems to be a mixed bag. Some explosive fragmentation and some good channel exit wounds. I'm looking for experience with Elk specifically. It seems like antelope and deer will present no issues for penetration generally. My main worry (for any bullet) is the close in shots < 100yds where you have a less then optimal angle (quartering too, head on) and the bullets are really cooking. I've had a bad experience with the Nosler BT at ~50yds on an elk (300WM @ 3100fps) which forced me to switch to the AB. Most of my shots are typically in the 200-500yd range so a lot of these longer range bullets are probably going to perform well there....but for that 1 shot close in.... So any experience from people out there on elk sized targets for the Bergers would be appreciated as they sound like something I would want to explore. Of course another option for me is to just load up something pretty stout (Partitions?) that closely approximates the trajectory for the first 100yds and use those when I am wondering through the really thick stuff, then swap out to the longer range loads as needed.</p><p></p><p>Back to the main problem. Since I still have plenty of the ELD-X's laying around. I think I'm going to run an experiment on the seating depth/lands to see if I can prove that this is in fact the issue (not that it will cause me to use them now). I think I'll load up groups of 5 @ 0.015-0.02" off the lands and shoot at 100, 200, & 300yds (loading them singly) to see if I can get them to stop the stringing or at least alter the result somehow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agrodgers, post: 1439955, member: 46003"] Thanks for the suggestions. Looking around this and other sites at the terminal characteristics for the Berger's, there seems to be a mixed bag. Some explosive fragmentation and some good channel exit wounds. I'm looking for experience with Elk specifically. It seems like antelope and deer will present no issues for penetration generally. My main worry (for any bullet) is the close in shots < 100yds where you have a less then optimal angle (quartering too, head on) and the bullets are really cooking. I've had a bad experience with the Nosler BT at ~50yds on an elk (300WM @ 3100fps) which forced me to switch to the AB. Most of my shots are typically in the 200-500yd range so a lot of these longer range bullets are probably going to perform well there....but for that 1 shot close in.... So any experience from people out there on elk sized targets for the Bergers would be appreciated as they sound like something I would want to explore. Of course another option for me is to just load up something pretty stout (Partitions?) that closely approximates the trajectory for the first 100yds and use those when I am wondering through the really thick stuff, then swap out to the longer range loads as needed. Back to the main problem. Since I still have plenty of the ELD-X's laying around. I think I'm going to run an experiment on the seating depth/lands to see if I can prove that this is in fact the issue (not that it will cause me to use them now). I think I'll load up groups of 5 @ 0.015-0.02" off the lands and shoot at 100, 200, & 300yds (loading them singly) to see if I can get them to stop the stringing or at least alter the result somehow. [/QUOTE]
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