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<blockquote data-quote="cowboy" data-source="post: 1225009" data-attributes="member: 8833"><p>My son and I both have 280AI's with 1/10 twist barrels and have shot the Berger 168 VLD's hunting bullet for years. After Berger updated their twist recommendations they lowered the VLD hunting bullet to a 1/9 twist recommendation from what had always been a 1/10 twist minimum recommendation. Bergers 168 Classic Hunter was listed at 1/10 twist when they finally hit the market - I tried them and had very noticeable improvement in consistency. The little I gave up in BC was well worth the improved consistency in accuracy. </p><p></p><p>I live at 3600 ft. Elevation, hunt up to 9000 ft and ran my 168's at 2840 fps. My son lives at a higher elevation than I and pushed his just over 3000 fps and has never had a problem with consistency with the VLD hunting bullet and he has no need/desire to switch to anything else - same gunsmith, same reamer on both rifles. I just think he stabilized his better with more velocity and higher elevation. </p><p></p><p>We both use Nosler brass, I use 210M primers, son uses 215M primers. Both rifles are starting to get close to their barrels life span and they'll get 1/9 twist barrels when it is time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowboy, post: 1225009, member: 8833"] My son and I both have 280AI's with 1/10 twist barrels and have shot the Berger 168 VLD's hunting bullet for years. After Berger updated their twist recommendations they lowered the VLD hunting bullet to a 1/9 twist recommendation from what had always been a 1/10 twist minimum recommendation. Bergers 168 Classic Hunter was listed at 1/10 twist when they finally hit the market - I tried them and had very noticeable improvement in consistency. The little I gave up in BC was well worth the improved consistency in accuracy. I live at 3600 ft. Elevation, hunt up to 9000 ft and ran my 168's at 2840 fps. My son lives at a higher elevation than I and pushed his just over 3000 fps and has never had a problem with consistency with the VLD hunting bullet and he has no need/desire to switch to anything else - same gunsmith, same reamer on both rifles. I just think he stabilized his better with more velocity and higher elevation. We both use Nosler brass, I use 210M primers, son uses 215M primers. Both rifles are starting to get close to their barrels life span and they'll get 1/9 twist barrels when it is time. [/QUOTE]
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