Hornady 178 BTHP Match Bullets..

[Unknown]

Re: Hornady 178 BTHP Match Bullets..

I have a batch of (600) once fired, match prepped LC match cases that I'm going to load up.
I'm all out of my last large purchase of bullets, and thought that for my 1-10 twist DPMS LR308 and my TRG22 (1-11) that the 178 bullets might work out really well. I have about 4 pounds of Varget all from the same lot, so I was wondering if anyone has worked up a load with the following:

LC match cases (primer pockets uniformed, flash holes deburred, trimmed etc)
Varget
178 Hornady BTHP (or AMAX)
CCI BR2, or Fed 210M (whatever I can find)

 

[Nushooter]

Re: Hornady 178 BTHP Match Bullets..

I reloaded some of the 178 match at 44g/varget with col of 2.800 to shoot out of my Savage 12fv .308. If I could figure out how to post the pics you'd see that they shot a 5 shot group of .48 moa at 100yrds. In another case I had 175 SMK with 42g/varget with col of 2.80 that shot .692 at 300yrds. This was all done from a bench with a headwind off of a bipod amd rear bag.

 

[lvgolfer962]

Re: Hornady 178 BTHP Match Bullets..

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Unknown</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have a batch of (600) once fired, match prepped LC match cases that I'm going to load up.
I'm all out of my last large purchase of bullets, and thought that for my 1-10 twist DPMS LR308 and my TRG22 (1-11) that the 178 bullets might work out really well. I have about 4 pounds of Varget all from the same lot, so I was wondering if anyone has worked up a load with the following:

LC match cases (primer pockets uniformed, flash holes deburred, trimmed etc)
Varget
178 Hornady BTHP (or AMAX)
CCI BR2, or Fed 210M (whatever I can find)
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My 178 Amax load is

LC LR brass with 43.1g of varget, br2 primers and the coal is 2.855 (to the ogive is 2.240)

Its getting me 2720 fps out of my 1-10 5r krieger thats 28" (under 1/2 inch when I do my part )

I usually use lapua brass and get slightly better results but my brass has been on backorder for 3 months so I had to go back to the old faithful Lake city brass