Recent content by PLHunter

I have a 1:8 25-06 and shoot the 121 hammers. I will say that the BC and design on these hammers is noticeably less than the 124 6.5 hammers. Were I to do it again I would have done a 1:7 twist and shot the 128’s out of the 25-06. I’ve killed a pronghorn and a mule deer buck with the 25-06 in...

Lol I swear I saw 2020!!!! Yikes!

I grew up in Morgan, Utah home to Browning’s USA headquarters and the original home before being bought out. My mom worked there and we ended up with some browning and Winchester firearms over the years. I’ve sold savages, remingtons, and rugers but never one of those brownings I have two...

I was assuming as much. 0.07 was my sweet spot usually with Barnes. I’ll play around at 0.05 and 0.06.

I’ve caught one hammer shank in the offside hide on a 400 yard mule deer shot. This last year we observed large fragments well into the bands and riflings on our pronghorn. 3 shot with 6.5 hammers. One of which we never found the exit hole. We also never found the shank. Shot was 200 yards...

I’m going to be giving the badlands a try after trying all the other non-toxic bullets. Just for the BC. I love the mode of action for the cutting edge and hammer bullets. Seems reliable and has been for me through several kills. Longest kill was 500 yards. The thing I like about the pedal...

@Hespco Oh you are using the heavy hammers. I am referring to the 123 hammer hunters. These actually weighed 126 when I weighed them a few years ago. I do think they made changes to the hollowpoint depth since then however.

I’ll give them a try. Let you know how it goes

@Kmccord i don’t have my notes but I think I started around 42 grains. There was a node around 43.5 that worked well in all rifles used. I loaded to 2.81. I haven’t played with seating at all in the hammers. They shot as good as I do at that seating length.

Late to the show but add another to the RL-16 camp. Using 44.5 grains with the 124's. Top end load that was too much for a friend's former rifle (ejector marks). 3000 in a slow barreled tikka. 3060 in a 20 inch barreled fast barreled proof research. Tight groups low sample size but an sd of...

Thanks for your response. I’ve experimented with cutting edge, hammers, and Barnes. I couldn’t get the SD down on the cutting edge bullets and didn’t really like the customer experience. Barnes were fine but the lowish BC and performance at lower impact velocities kind of rules them out. The...

Looks great. Have you used hammer hunters? Wondering how these compare? Did you get any speed data? Thanks!

It’s all been said before and what you say is mostly true. However, the lower density coppers eventually do Peter out. So if you are applying this logic make sure to consult your ballistic table it will tell you at which point the copper beats and eventually loses to a heavier lead bullet...

I own a creed and am trying with all my might not to buy a PRC. I have a 25-06 with a 8 twist barrel so its identical in performance to the PRC... Except I have to buy expensive niche bullets. The recoil on the PRC is very light for the level of performance but of course still more than the...

I'll ditto the ditto's on Hammer Hunters. They have shot well. I'm an MOA shooter. Not a sub-MOA shooter. The hammers did their part and were much easier to develop a load for than another brand of similar terminal performance design. The realized BC's were lower than I would have liked but...