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I Hate Hammer Bullets!
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<blockquote data-quote="Jaredk03" data-source="post: 2406753" data-attributes="member: 100527"><p>I will throw out some small complaints I ran into. When I got my first box of Hammers I went through and weighed all 50 bullets. They were the 7 mm 143 gr. I was surprised to see up to a 2 grain difference in many of the bullets, and one that was actually a 131 gr! That is over a 10 grain difference, glad I had weighed them all. That was kind of disappointing for a bullet that cost over twice the amount of the bullets I had been loading, the Eldx 162. When I weighed each Eldx, they were mostly all 162.0 and didn't vary more than 0.5 grains. When I did load development with the hammers they shot about the same as the Eldx so I didn't use the hammers again for awhile. This year I decided to give them a shot again, but I didn't have enough of the Hammers from the original box of 143 gr, so I ordered a new box of 143 gr. Of course I measured and weighed them and they were significantly different weight and BTO than the first box. So load development again. I thought with the CNC machining they would be more consistent. Anyway I found a good load with the new hammer 143 and shot a bull elk at 360 yards. It performed perfectly and rolled him downhill. So overall I am happy with the performance, but wish they were more consistent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaredk03, post: 2406753, member: 100527"] I will throw out some small complaints I ran into. When I got my first box of Hammers I went through and weighed all 50 bullets. They were the 7 mm 143 gr. I was surprised to see up to a 2 grain difference in many of the bullets, and one that was actually a 131 gr! That is over a 10 grain difference, glad I had weighed them all. That was kind of disappointing for a bullet that cost over twice the amount of the bullets I had been loading, the Eldx 162. When I weighed each Eldx, they were mostly all 162.0 and didn’t vary more than 0.5 grains. When I did load development with the hammers they shot about the same as the Eldx so I didn’t use the hammers again for awhile. This year I decided to give them a shot again, but I didn’t have enough of the Hammers from the original box of 143 gr, so I ordered a new box of 143 gr. Of course I measured and weighed them and they were significantly different weight and BTO than the first box. So load development again. I thought with the CNC machining they would be more consistent. Anyway I found a good load with the new hammer 143 and shot a bull elk at 360 yards. It performed perfectly and rolled him downhill. So overall I am happy with the performance, but wish they were more consistent. [/QUOTE]
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