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308 Lapua Bullets

DocRDS

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During the current shortage I was looking around at alternates to my favs, and i noticed Lapua bullets really lag behind Barnes/Berger/Hornady/Sierra in terms of (published) BC for match bullets.

Is this a case of them being conservative? Has anyone found their numbers to be low? With Lapua brass being A+, suprised to see the bullets lag behind competitors on paper. Would be interested in real world data for their heavier 175 and 185 bullets. I have their 155s which have less of a mismatch (on paper) for my large AR
 
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This is with 175gr Scenar-L with IMR 4064 @ 42.1gr 2590mv
Steel was at 1165yds
shotmarker at 600yds
all shot from a bipod and a rear bag
All the bullets were pulled and reseated to adjust the charge weight.
 
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