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<blockquote data-quote="RDM416" data-source="post: 510560" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>SBruce,</p><p></p><p>I have had very good results shooting the Bergers out of one of my Khans' at 2875fps. Made some very long kills on antelope last fall with them. I loaded them intentionally to keep them under 2900fps based on what I was hearing on this site. I liked them so well I started to experiment with them out of my other Khan which has a longer barrel to see what kind of velocity I could work them up to. </p><p></p><p>Last week I was shooting some and average velocity was running about 3080fps. Groups were good at 100 but not impressive (1/2 to 3/4 moa). I moved out to 300 and shot 1, 3 shot group that was about 1", then shot a second group, 1st and second shot were about 1 1/2" apart, the <strong>third shot went 9" left and 6" high.</strong> That was the first shot with the Bergers that something obviously went wrong with the bullet. I know I did not pull the shot (not THAT far anyway) and the brass was perfect so it had to be the bullet. I only had about 6 more loaded so I went home pulled the bullets and concluded that 3080fps is too fast for Gen 1s. </p><p></p><p>Like you, I have several hundred in stock. I'm still deciding if I am going to return them to Berger or just shoot them with the reduced load. From what Shawn and Kirby are saying it looks like the Gen IIs are the real deal though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDM416, post: 510560, member: 3745"] SBruce, I have had very good results shooting the Bergers out of one of my Khans' at 2875fps. Made some very long kills on antelope last fall with them. I loaded them intentionally to keep them under 2900fps based on what I was hearing on this site. I liked them so well I started to experiment with them out of my other Khan which has a longer barrel to see what kind of velocity I could work them up to. Last week I was shooting some and average velocity was running about 3080fps. Groups were good at 100 but not impressive (1/2 to 3/4 moa). I moved out to 300 and shot 1, 3 shot group that was about 1", then shot a second group, 1st and second shot were about 1 1/2" apart, the [B]third shot went 9" left and 6" high.[/B] That was the first shot with the Bergers that something obviously went wrong with the bullet. I know I did not pull the shot (not THAT far anyway) and the brass was perfect so it had to be the bullet. I only had about 6 more loaded so I went home pulled the bullets and concluded that 3080fps is too fast for Gen 1s. Like you, I have several hundred in stock. I'm still deciding if I am going to return them to Berger or just shoot them with the reduced load. From what Shawn and Kirby are saying it looks like the Gen IIs are the real deal though. [/QUOTE]
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