Yup. What @Woody says.
Yup. What @Woody says.
Ended up buying 165gr speer Spitzer as they do amazingly well in the federal blue box. $59 for 100 and apparently easy to source. Will load some up and if they shoot will bu some more and put them away for later. Abandoned the multiple weight projectiles ideas
had the same off to one side issue going from 357 mag to 38 special in the marlin lever . 38 went to the left around an inch and a half or so at 25 mtrs when sighted with 357, but strangely after fitting a suppressor it stopped doing it and now both rounds shoot straight ( height differs though obviously ) . just use the hash marks in the scope for elevation going from 357 to 38 now.
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If you subscribe to the theory of accuracy nodes normally linked to velocities, you will find that in normal barrel length you normally can’t reach the next node in a 308 with the 150gr, in which case the 160gr bullets will be better with a higher BC.
Hornady 165ssts easilly shoot moa at 750yds on a good day.Factory ammo all i use.
The data here is developed for my rifle and you woukd need to work up a safe load carefully for any other.
Case NORMA
Primer cci200
Bullet ELD-X 178grain
Powder AR2208; 42.4 grains
C.O.A.L. 2.860".
MV 2620'/sec
0.7 moa groups @ 300. and 0.2moa @200
Schultz and Larsen Classic DL.
25" bbl.
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Greetings Superdriver,
I tried for years to get different projectile weights to shoot to the same POI in the .308 and came up empty. You can read my two articles on this on the NZ Guns website which is now open access. Recently I tested 125, 150 and 165 projectiles in my now suppressed .308 and found that the 150 grain projectiles shot left of the other two even at 60 metres. I believe that you may have better success sticking to one weight, as close in BC as possible. The BC of the Corelokt is much lower than the two other projectiles you mention so would likely shoot lower. The factory loads will likely give less velocity as well. Its always best to get your premium load sorted first then tinker with any other load to get it to match. In my rifle an extra grain of powder would put the Speer projectiles in with the ELDM's. This is assuming you are not max already.
Regards Grandpamac.
Ok so updating this thread. Have ditched the speer 165btsp and loaded the speers 165gr HCSP(federal blue box bullet). 45gr of 2208 loaded to 2.75" coal has these shooting sub inch @ 100m with the same POI as my remington corelokt factory rounds then by using my ballistics calculator worked out my 168eldms are zeroed @ 250 so pretty happy. Need to shoot the speers at distance to verify speeds but guessing 2600-2630 which means they are good on reds/rusa size animals out to 400m~ which will cover basically all my hunting.
Have you got a link to the articles @grandpamac l can not find them
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