Decent results bullet sorting Hornady 178 ELDX

[hafejd30]

Thought I’d share my results from sorting 300 bullets this afternoon. These are for long range hunting only rifles. AIAT in 308 and GA Precision in 300 WM

30 Cal 178 Hornady ELDX

Long story short in the past I had issues with base to ogive measurements being way off while loading Hornady bullets. Come to find out the box of 100 count 165 sst had a .017” Base to Ogive difference. They were very clearly off two different machines etc. I was taken care of but the replacement box wasn’t anything to write home about either, but better. Had similar results when comparing 178 AMAX to 175 SMK. With the SMK showing results similar to what the hornady did today

I typically don’t sort for hunting just for fclass etc but I was curious

Measurements are Base to Ogive of each bullet on rcbs caliper with hornady comparator. Then every bullet was weighed on rcbs scale.

Results:

Red Bowl: (249 bullets)
Base to Ogive - 1.737”-1.738”
Weight - 177.5-178.5 grains

Orange Bowl: (33 bullets)
Base to Ogive- 1.739”

Yellow Bowl: (18 bullets)
Weight- 177.2-177.4 grains (2 bullets 178.6 grains)

The red bowl is obviously the targeted measurements. The orange bowl was bullets that measured just .001” over the target of 1.737-1.738”. The yellow bowl were rounds that met the Base to Ogive target but weighed outside of the target weight of 178.0 +/- .5 grains (177.5-178.5)

Just thought I’d share these results as I was impressed with the consistency compared to my past experiences.

FYI we have been shooting these bullets for a couple years now and have been very impressed with the accuracy and their ability to effectively kill whitetail deer. To date doing “crop damage” deer eradication we’ve taken about 400 deer from ranges of 50-700 yards with great results



End Results of (3) 100 round boxes of the same lot #:

All bullets were Base to Ogive- 1.737”-1.739”

All bullets were 177.2 - 178.6 grains

 

[straightshooter1]

Thought I’d share my results from sorting 300 bullets this afternoon. These are for long range hunting only rifles. AIAT in 308 and GA Precision in 300 WM

30 Cal 178 Hornady ELDX

Long story short in the past I had issues with base to ogive measurements being way off while loading Hornady bullets. Come to find out the box of 100 count 165 sst had a .017” Base to Ogive difference. They were very clearly off two different machines etc. I was taken care of but the replacement box wasn’t anything to write home about either, but better. Had similar results when comparing 178 AMAX to 175 SMK. With the SMK showing results similar to what the hornady did today

I typically don’t sort for hunting just for fclass etc but I was curious

Measurements are Base to Ogive of each bullet on rcbs caliper with hornady comparator. Then every bullet was weighed on rcbs scale.

Results:

Red Bowl: (249 bullets)
Base to Ogive - 1.737”-1.738”
Weight - 177.5-178.5 grains

Orange Bowl: (33 bullets)
Base to Ogive- 1.739”

Yellow Bowl: (18 bullets)
Weight- 177.2-177.4 grains (2 bullets 178.6 grains)

The red bowl is obviously the targeted measurements. The orange bowl was bullets that measured just .001” over the target of 1.737-1.738”. The yellow bowl were rounds that met the Base to Ogive target but weighed outside of the target weight of 178.0 +/- .5 grains (177.5-178.5)

Just thought I’d share these results as I was impressed with the consistency compared to my past experiences.

FYI we have been shooting these bullets for a couple years now and have been very impressed with the accuracy and their ability to effectively kill whitetail deer. To date doing “crop damage” deer eradication we’ve taken about 400 deer from ranges of 50-700 yards with great results



End Results of (3) 100 round boxes of the same lot #:

All bullets were Base to Ogive- 1.737”-1.739”

All bullets were 177.2 - 178.6 grains

I had some SMK's with a variance of as much as .033 and that's when I started to doing as you do in measuring BTO for all whenever I get new box of bullets. The last couple of boxes of 500 SMK's I've gotten (as well as some Bergers), didn't have much of a variation (like .003). Now, rather than measuring the whole box, I'll measure around 30 selecting from different parts of the box (like some from the bottom, top, middle, left and right) to see if there's a mixed batch piled on top of another. If I don't find much variance (like the .003) in my sampling, I find the whole box is pretty uniform, so I don't have to do the WHOLE box of 500 or more of that lot. Sorting by BTO really helps a lot in getting uniform seating.

 

[hafejd30]

I measured the last batch I had and theses were .007” shorter in BTO length. I actually included the BTO measurement of both lot #’s
above.

I didn’t get time to test the 300 like I wanted to last year but if the 308 and 300 really like this bullet I’ll order a couple thousand. Otherwise I’ll go to the Berger’s but I’ve read better results with expansion from the ELDX than Berger’s VLD hunting bullets.

I will say these bullets do what there designed to do and have had good clean kills with them