Haha. Thank Iowa and their stupid caliber restrictions. Almost built a 35 whelen with a 355 barrel to shoot 350 legend bullets. Fortunately I wised up before going down that rabbit hole and called hammer. I expect the 140 is going to awesome on whitetails and black bear.
And in all seriousness...
Quick or not, it made my day when I called and you said "yep, we can make that." The fact that it was so quick is just a bonus. I sent the barrel blank off to a smith this week so it will be awhile before I get to test.
So about 3 weeks ago, I called hammer and asked "can you make....?" Last night, I got a call saying "your bullets are done and on the website. They came out to 140 grains." Moral of the story, not only will hammer make something when you ask, they will make it quick.
To take out suspected variables, I will reshoot with a 100 yard zero and shoot some 162 eld x that have available. Hopefully on Wednesday of the weather cooperates
I am deffinately not trying "got you" with ballistic talk. However your example that shows roughly 9 moa at drop with 100 zero only works if we leave the rifle zeroed 2 moa high at 100 yards. And is now way off what I saw in the field at 255 and 400. Having your rifle sighted 2 moa at 100 and...
Naturally, we don't trust the box. My question is more of why am I so drastically off from both the box and what others are observing. Furthermore if I true my bc based on my 600 yard results, I am way off at 1k.
I haven't tried anything else in this gun. I could run some 162 elds just to check. In other guns, various hornady and sierra bullets match up reasonably well.
Unless I am missing something drastic, your example shows that the zero range isn't the issue. My rifle is right at 2 moa high at 100. If I zero at 100, (drop my zero 2 moa), I would now need 11.25 moa to hit 600 so still roughly 2 moa more predicted and we are back to making extreme cuts to...
For those asking my scope height is 1.8
As for pressure in my area being low, it's always low in this area. I just walked out my door and took some readings.
Temp 71.4
Humidity 30
Alt 3700
Density Alt 5574
Pressure inHg 26.13
PVA calls for a 9 and I am running a 9.25 at 3300' altitude so I should be good. Even if we are are degrading slightly, we at talking of going from .3ish g7 to sub .19 g7 to line up at 600.
Playing with 150 PVA Cayuga in my factory tikka 7mm mag.
Claimed BC .311 G7. Cody Adam's trued his to .300ish G7
Velocity 3150 (lab radar and magnetospeed confirmed.)
Sight in 2moa high at 100, confirmed zero at 255 yards.
Elevation 3365, pressure 26.45, humidity 50, temp 65. (Kestral...