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<blockquote data-quote="Joe King" data-source="post: 746153" data-attributes="member: 47325"><p>Retumbo works great for the 180's or bullets with a longer bearing length, H100seems to be in that sweet spot for the 168's. This past season I gave the 168gr classic hunter a go and I have to say it shot well for me all through the load work up. One thing I found with it is that that bullet is really insensitive to seating depth, I mean the difference between the worst and best when I varied seating depth was only a 1/4moa. But (Walt did say this when I emailed him about it) you'll see a velocity drop from what the VLD gets, apparently it is due to the longer bearing length. As for on game performance, I shot a muley at about 50yrds, no it didn't exit, didn't expect it to with an impact vel of 2900fps, but I didn't loose much meat at all either. The pressure wave though deflated his heart, it was weird it was like an empty sack.</p><p></p><p>In my research of 168gr loads using H1000 I found most settle on their powder charge between 69gr and 71gr with the majority being around 70gr.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe King, post: 746153, member: 47325"] Retumbo works great for the 180's or bullets with a longer bearing length, H100seems to be in that sweet spot for the 168's. This past season I gave the 168gr classic hunter a go and I have to say it shot well for me all through the load work up. One thing I found with it is that that bullet is really insensitive to seating depth, I mean the difference between the worst and best when I varied seating depth was only a 1/4moa. But (Walt did say this when I emailed him about it) you'll see a velocity drop from what the VLD gets, apparently it is due to the longer bearing length. As for on game performance, I shot a muley at about 50yrds, no it didn't exit, didn't expect it to with an impact vel of 2900fps, but I didn't loose much meat at all either. The pressure wave though deflated his heart, it was weird it was like an empty sack. In my research of 168gr loads using H1000 I found most settle on their powder charge between 69gr and 71gr with the majority being around 70gr. [/QUOTE]
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