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Most Accurate Traditional Hunting Bullet?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lowedown" data-source="post: 2918447" data-attributes="member: 110204"><p>The bullet that has proven out the most consistent for me in weight and on paper was Sierra Gameking 7mm 160gr SBT. I have since shot multiple ELD-X bullets into dime size groups from a 7 mag and a 6.5 creed so they have made me happy. the 55gr Vmax out of my 22-250 has shot some outstanding groups also. The barnes I shot for a while did ok but never really impressed me. Later talking to a good friend I got some good info. His uncle (who owned a truck load of small caliber rifles that ALL shoot) started making his own bullets. He would get jackets from Berger and do the rest himself. He ended up with a lot of very precise tools for measuring bullet run out, weights, jacket thickness, concentricity, etc. He went to work testing factory bullets and I don't claim to remember everything he learned. What stuck with me was that the least consistent bullets he tested were Barnes and Nosler, the most consistent were Sierras. Now there are a lot of factors here, and I don't think it is fair to just say some are junk. However I trust him, and therefore have never spent much money on Noslers, and I had already quit shooting Barnes. FYI, I did recently weigh out 200 ELDX 7mm 162s. nice looking bell curve with outliers creating a spread of .6 gr, with the majority falling within .1 gr of the median which was 161.9.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lowedown, post: 2918447, member: 110204"] The bullet that has proven out the most consistent for me in weight and on paper was Sierra Gameking 7mm 160gr SBT. I have since shot multiple ELD-X bullets into dime size groups from a 7 mag and a 6.5 creed so they have made me happy. the 55gr Vmax out of my 22-250 has shot some outstanding groups also. The barnes I shot for a while did ok but never really impressed me. Later talking to a good friend I got some good info. His uncle (who owned a truck load of small caliber rifles that ALL shoot) started making his own bullets. He would get jackets from Berger and do the rest himself. He ended up with a lot of very precise tools for measuring bullet run out, weights, jacket thickness, concentricity, etc. He went to work testing factory bullets and I don't claim to remember everything he learned. What stuck with me was that the least consistent bullets he tested were Barnes and Nosler, the most consistent were Sierras. Now there are a lot of factors here, and I don't think it is fair to just say some are junk. However I trust him, and therefore have never spent much money on Noslers, and I had already quit shooting Barnes. FYI, I did recently weigh out 200 ELDX 7mm 162s. nice looking bell curve with outliers creating a spread of .6 gr, with the majority falling within .1 gr of the median which was 161.9. [/QUOTE]
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