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<blockquote data-quote="orkan" data-source="post: 2635118" data-attributes="member: 25377"><p>Started back in on the Hammer 22 Creed project today. I was continuing with H4350 at around 3600fps with the 70gr Hammer Hunters... but it was just fighting me. Solid 1/3 MOA... but I felt like I was just chasing it around a bit. So, in keeping with some advice I've offered on another thread... I decided to grab a faster powder, which seems to make these Hammers work better in everything. I grabbed some Varget, and dumped 40.5gr with the best seating depth I've found with H4350. Generally, I'd never recommend varget with a normal 70gr bullet in a 22 creed... but these Hammers aren't normal. </p><p></p><p>YIKES! That's fast. I mean, the alpha OCD can take it, and no heavy bolt lift... but whoa. </p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/D1KyPuBh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The wind was doing dumb swirly things today, so I didn't bother with trying to fine tune accuracy. I just shot the condition and held straight on the dot, and put 3 down range as fast as I could. These are all 3 shot groups at 100yds. Two bullets essentially going through the exact same hole, then one landing a bullet away, over and over again. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> Obviously I will be doing some proper dev with this combo, as it is clearly better than what I was seeing with the H4350.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/RHEb7w7h.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I legitimately had to pull out some magnification to see if there were actually 3 bullet holes there. But, I was able to confirm it... just a little more paper torn out here, or a little oblong hole there. A couple of them, I just couldn't see how 3 bullets went in there. I didn't see them anywhere else... so anyway. lol </p><p></p><p>Something tells me it will be a little happier down closer to 3625 or so. I was hoping to use H4350 with this test, as that's the primary powder I run in all my other 22 creeds... but if I can get varget performing like this on the regular, I'll anchor in there for the life of this barrel. </p><p></p><p></p><p>----------- </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/primalrights" target="_blank">Follow on Instagram</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/primalrights" target="_blank">Subscribe on YouTube</a></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3txlBnp" target="_blank">Amazon Affiliate</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.primalrights.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://primalrights.com/images/signatures/sig1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orkan, post: 2635118, member: 25377"] Started back in on the Hammer 22 Creed project today. I was continuing with H4350 at around 3600fps with the 70gr Hammer Hunters... but it was just fighting me. Solid 1/3 MOA... but I felt like I was just chasing it around a bit. So, in keeping with some advice I've offered on another thread... I decided to grab a faster powder, which seems to make these Hammers work better in everything. I grabbed some Varget, and dumped 40.5gr with the best seating depth I've found with H4350. Generally, I'd never recommend varget with a normal 70gr bullet in a 22 creed... but these Hammers aren't normal. YIKES! That's fast. I mean, the alpha OCD can take it, and no heavy bolt lift... but whoa. [img]https://i.imgur.com/D1KyPuBh.jpg[/img] The wind was doing dumb swirly things today, so I didn't bother with trying to fine tune accuracy. I just shot the condition and held straight on the dot, and put 3 down range as fast as I could. These are all 3 shot groups at 100yds. Two bullets essentially going through the exact same hole, then one landing a bullet away, over and over again. 🤣 Obviously I will be doing some proper dev with this combo, as it is clearly better than what I was seeing with the H4350. [img]https://i.imgur.com/RHEb7w7h.jpg[/img] I legitimately had to pull out some magnification to see if there were actually 3 bullet holes there. But, I was able to confirm it... just a little more paper torn out here, or a little oblong hole there. A couple of them, I just couldn't see how 3 bullets went in there. I didn't see them anywhere else... so anyway. lol Something tells me it will be a little happier down closer to 3625 or so. I was hoping to use H4350 with this test, as that's the primary powder I run in all my other 22 creeds... but if I can get varget performing like this on the regular, I'll anchor in there for the life of this barrel. ----------- [URL='https://www.instagram.com/primalrights']Follow on Instagram[/URL] [URL='https://www.youtube.com/user/primalrights']Subscribe on YouTube[/URL] [URL='https://amzn.to/3txlBnp']Amazon Affiliate[/URL] [URL='http://www.primalrights.com'][IMG]http://primalrights.com/images/signatures/sig1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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