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28 Nosler - Best Hunting Bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="kai" data-source="post: 1443168" data-attributes="member: 98994"><p>After hearing other reports of inconsistent terminal performance of the Bergers, I decided to avoid them regardless of their accuracy and High BC.</p><p>My barrel will have an 8 twist so I can run almost any weight bullet.</p><p></p><p>I looked very closely at the Hammer Hunter bullets in 143, 155 and 177 grain weights. I ran ballistic calculations on these Hammer bullets at muzzle velocities of 3600, 3450 and 3250 FPS respectively. <u>These were my guesstimated maximum velocities and they could be wrong.</u></p><p></p><p>Here are the drops and wind drift figures in inches at 800 yards:</p><p>143 gn bullet: 98.6 34.7</p><p>155 gn bullet: 106.4 34.4</p><p>177 gn bullet: 116.2 32.1</p><p><u></u></p><p><u>If my muzzle velocity guesstimates were accurate,</u> then the 143 grain Hammer Hunter bullet would be my choice of the Hunter bullets. The 143 with its higher velocity, shows less drop and almost the same drift as the heavier 177.</p><p></p><p>The ELD-M 180 has more drop but less wind drift. Since I can't read wind as well as distance, I'm leaning toward the ELD-M 180 because of its lower wind drift, thinking that it might aid in shot placement shooting across the valleys where I hunt.</p><p></p><p>I've heard that the Hunter bullets shoot well at almost any amount of jump.</p><p>This has me thinking that I can have the barrel chambered and the throat cut for the alternative bullet and I can still shoot the shorter Hammer bullets if I choose to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kai, post: 1443168, member: 98994"] After hearing other reports of inconsistent terminal performance of the Bergers, I decided to avoid them regardless of their accuracy and High BC. My barrel will have an 8 twist so I can run almost any weight bullet. I looked very closely at the Hammer Hunter bullets in 143, 155 and 177 grain weights. I ran ballistic calculations on these Hammer bullets at muzzle velocities of 3600, 3450 and 3250 FPS respectively. [U]These were my guesstimated maximum velocities and they could be wrong.[/U] Here are the drops and wind drift figures in inches at 800 yards: 143 gn bullet: 98.6 34.7 155 gn bullet: 106.4 34.4 177 gn bullet: 116.2 32.1 [U] If my muzzle velocity guesstimates were accurate,[/U] then the 143 grain Hammer Hunter bullet would be my choice of the Hunter bullets. The 143 with its higher velocity, shows less drop and almost the same drift as the heavier 177. The ELD-M 180 has more drop but less wind drift. Since I can't read wind as well as distance, I'm leaning toward the ELD-M 180 because of its lower wind drift, thinking that it might aid in shot placement shooting across the valleys where I hunt. I've heard that the Hunter bullets shoot well at almost any amount of jump. This has me thinking that I can have the barrel chambered and the throat cut for the alternative bullet and I can still shoot the shorter Hammer bullets if I choose to. [/QUOTE]
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