Federal 7mm PRC 170 Gr Terminal Ascent

[Korhil78]

This ammo can be found now. Just bought three boxes and gonna test them out.

 

[Prieto9000]

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[ZReed85]

I handload everything but saw a box and picked it up to try yesterday, I could only shoot 200 yards so no BC testing. They shot right at 1/2moa and 3039fps in my 26 inch benchmark. Another solid option on the market for sure.

 

[Kimber7man]

That might be a great option for an alternative to Big Red. The TA is unleaded, correct?

 

[Korhil78]

It has a lead core but a copper shank.

 

[fmajor]

That looks like an outstanding design! Can't tell metallurgy from just looking at it, but if it turns out to perform well on impact it would be awesome if Federal offered the component for reloading.

 

[MostlyUselessLurker]

This ammo can be found now. Just bought three boxes and gonna test them out.

What is the velocity on the box?

 

[Korhil78]

2950 fps

 

[slikmrc]

Any updates on this ammo?

 

[Korhil78]

I'll be shooting it under a chrono in about an hour

 

[Korhil78]

So…the ammo sucked in my rifle.

Rifle:
Hells Canyon Armory build
Tikka action with a new trigger spring installed
24" HCA Carbon barrel.

Velocity is well over advertised:
3020 on cold cleaned barrel
3045
3065
3081
3054
3081
3064
3033
3094
Chrono did not read the last shot for some reason.

Not counting the cold clean barrel shot it was an ES of 61.

Group was around 2" for the 10 shot group at 100 yards. (I'll measure when I get home)

Shot three handloads (all I had)
170 Gr hammer Hunter tipped over 65.5 gr of N560

3013
3014
3018

ES of 5 and grouped .3" (I'll measure when I get home). Like I said, that's only 3 shots for handloads so not a fair comparison but I have shot 10 shot groups with ES of 15 and way smaller groups than 2" haha.

Overall thoughts of the factory ammo….awesome bullet but crappy ammo.

 

[Korhil78]

Went and measured the group. 1.5" 10 shot group and 1.2" if you take that flier out that's a tad high and right. Still not great and with 61 ES…wooo!

 

[TucsonFX4]

That's unfortunate. I don't know much about this bullet, so I wonder how forgiving it tends to be for reloading (when/if it comes out). These are pretty expensive, even as a component, but I like the design.

 

[quandary]

Based on my experience the bullet is a stone cold killer. It would be really nice to get them in component form.