Just opened a new box of 285gr. 338's for my LM and noticed that many of the red tips were broken off. 12 to be exact. Not a good thing for a long range set up. Makes me wonder how many tips are breaking off during flight. Maybe even cause a barrel obstruction. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Range Report - Broken tips on Hornady 6.5 140 ELDMs
Anybody else see this issue? I've shot almost 5000 Hornady 140 ELDMs since 2017 and until this month have never seen this before. A couple of weeks ago I was shooting a match and had a round go way low at 600 yds that was not due to me making a bad shot. This picture is of three broken bullet...
www.snipershide.com 147 ELD-M breaking up and tips melting?
Hi I have a 6.5PRC with a Krieger 1:8 Twist barrel 26". I shoot 147 ELD-M (batch 2180670). I am running them just over 3000 ft/s and shoot 1/2MOA all day long. In winter, I calibrated the BC out to 1350m and it came in at 0.345; i.e. pretty close to the published value. What I noticed when I...
www.snipershide.com ...Interesting Post on 224V Accuracy Issues
True enough unfortunately. My Craddock Precision barrel with matching bolt and threaded was over $500. It shoots lights out, but then I already knew that Craddock had the chamber and throat worked out. Yea I lucked out and grabbed an X-Caliber when they did the 50% off sale. X-Caliber doesn't...
www.snipershide.com Have not had any issues that i know of with the 6mm 108s including the seconds from midway, or the 140ELDM or 143ELDX. I did have several problems with the barnes tipped 110s in my Grendel, they were snapping off during chambering in my AR, had 6-7 out of 15 test rounds. Never even finished load work up with them.
Range Report - Broken tips on Hornady 6.5 140 ELDMs
Anybody else see this issue? I've shot almost 5000 Hornady 140 ELDMs since 2017 and until this month have never seen this before. A couple of weeks ago I was shooting a match and had a round go way low at 600 yds that was not due to me making a bad shot. This picture is of three broken bullet...
147 ELD-M breaking up and tips melting?
Hi I have a 6.5PRC with a Krieger 1:8 Twist barrel 26". I shoot 147 ELD-M (batch 2180670). I am running them just over 3000 ft/s and shoot 1/2MOA all day long. In winter, I calibrated the BC out to 1350m and it came in at 0.345; i.e. pretty close to the published value. What I noticed when I...
...Interesting Post on 224V Accuracy Issues
True enough unfortunately. My Craddock Precision barrel with matching bolt and threaded was over $500. It shoots lights out, but then I already knew that Craddock had the chamber and throat worked out. Yea I lucked out and grabbed an X-Caliber when they did the 50% off sale. X-Caliber doesn't...
Plus a couple more I'm sure lol
I’ve had some broken tips as well with factory 224 Valkyrie 88eld-m. It started mid day of my last match in really dry dusty conditions. I haven’t really been able to sort it out yet, as once I cleaned and lubed my gas gun I couldn’t replicate the problem. I figured it was more of an issue with my gasser than a projectile problem.
I don't have a 338, so can't comment directly about the Berger 300 hybrids, but a friend has one and uses/likes them. I use the 230 hybrids in my 300 and 105 hybrids in my 6. I prefer them over their polymer tipped cousins for a host of reasons.
My buddy with the 338 Norma was loving them as well but his last lol of 285’s were pretty disappointing.
