Berger Hybrid 153.3g Bullet Load Data??
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If you e-mail Berger tonight you will probably get a response Monday AM unless they are backed up because of the Holidays. Last Wednesday I emailed at *AM and had a response by 10AM.
Was in a similar position when the bullets came out, not a lot of data. I set a target of 2700 fps as I feel that is realistic for the Creed and would give me a rain/heat safe load for year round shooting.
Started with H4350 powder, CCI 450's and Lapua SR brass. Worked up loads and 40.3 grains gives me 2700 fps from a 26" barrel. This is my standard load now for my creed and works all year round.
Hope this helps.
Started with H4350 powder, CCI 450's and Lapua SR brass. Worked up loads and 40.3 grains gives me 2700 fps from a 26" barrel. This is my standard load now for my creed and works all year round.
Hope this helps.
I just saw this post. Apologies. Berger’s max load data that they gave me was 39.5g RL-16. I’m only getting 2590 fps with a 22” barrel and CCI-400 primers. I’m sure it has to be my shorter barrel length. Maybe I could use magnum primers and increase the charge weight by .5 grain? Thoughts. I really want 2,700fps out of this bullet.
Yes, based on my experience and other loads I've seen published I would feel comfortable going up in .2 grain increments and watch for pressure. If you have a fast barrel you might make it, but I bet you'll find an additional .5 grains get you close enough the target will never notice the difference.
If you have any RL26 or similar slower burning powder give it a try. I ran RL26 with 153 Atips and got a little over 2800 but it was a warm load. I don't recall the load but think it was in the 44+ grain range. If you call berger they will give you the data. But you will need to run a slower powder with a heavier bullet to get the speed you want.
FYI they are sensitive to jump - you might need to do a seating depth test. I'm shooting from a bigger case, but have great accuracy 5-15 off the lands, which falls off as I get further out. Haven't tried to jump more than 50 thou, but it was terrible there (~1moa).
Interesting. I was under the assumption the hybrids were jump tolerant. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll go back and for my next 25 round load test and do them 15 thou off and see if that’s better for me. I’ll need to get a bigger magazine for it. The Magpul Pmags are gonna cut it for that test. Thanks.
We were shooting them things close range I mean like 200 yd and they're really good the problem is you you have to really be a trickster to get the velocity out of them that you need to carry them out so I've been reading a lot here and reading a lot there an experimenting while developing a recipe for them what I found out is you can put like 43 grains of 4831 SC to drive that and you could put a bullets in the same Hole with that but the velocity is somewhere around 2500 what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the powder to h1000 and I got like a 28 inch barrel real good sugar real good glass chassis gun I'm going to try to juice It up to like 2900 feet per second with a Garmin I'm going to see how the accuracy is on that with the recipe I got high hopes I'm going to be doing this Thursday in the morning I got bullets made up I think it's going to be a Wonder pony but we'll see I know that h1000 it's just about the same speed as reloader 26 and being that it's real long barrel and I really like long barrels for heavy projectiles and slow powder I think I just might find my love
I'll let you know how I make out good or not good
