Does anyone actually shoot Nosler comp bullets

Dmagna

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I have never shot any of the Nosler custom comp bullets. I have always used Bergers in my target and long range varmint rifles using match bullets. Was interested in some of the 22 cal bullets
 
I have many in various calibers (from 26cal to 33cal) along with rdf's, but haven't had time to load any. Just got into the 28cals, but haven't bought and cc's in that caliber although just got 185's in last week for 7saum.
 
I have shot thousands of them. I shoot the 220's and 190's in the 300 blk and 69's in the 223 and 140's in 260 Rem.

Their 190's out of a 300 blk are good fun on pigs. It will actually go through a pig and kill the pig on the other side. I have tested this a few times. 220's will obviously do the same (just haven't tried it yet).
 
I have shot many thousands of 22cal 80gr Custom Comp bullets (without looking I think I have repurposed 7 or 8 of the 1000 bullet boxes... So I've shot at least that many +plus an unopened box or two). I shoot NRA/CMP Highpower matches. I've had two bolt action barrels that both loved these things. One was a Savage Varmint take off barrel and it shot these as well as the custom aftermarket barrel.

I've gone through several Ar15 service rifle barrels for these matches as well, none of them shot the Nosler as good as the a Hornady 75gr ELD-M at 600yds. However, these 80 gr make great loads for standing, which us what I've used most of them for.

They are very good, not the best, but they have a place in my reloading room.
Regards
Ross
 
Are they any different than SMKs? I can't see any difference.

I had 1200 of the 30 cal 240 grain SMKs. Thats a pig thumper.
 
Just got my hands on a bunch of them. Was thinking of dumping them off. But seems people have good luck with them. I will try them for some chuck bullets.

They are superbly accurate and have used the 22cal 88g & 77g on foxes and wild dogs (similar but bigger than coyotes) with great success out of my 7" twist 22-250AI. We used the same on pigs, but we had better luck running the 123g CC out of my 2 6.5x47's.

Cheers.
 
I have used close to 5k of the 77gr .223's and another thousand in a 6 creed, and I love them. They aren't the quality of a Berger, but the factory seconds are the best deal in the business. Shootersproshop is the way to go.
 
Most of my experience with Nosler has been wth the Custom Competition in 22 caliber. The smallest group I have ever shot at 300 yards was with the 52 grain CC, and was under an inch.

The 123 CC is also a good bullet. A friend runs them in his 6.5 Grendel and I like them in the 6.5x47.
 
I have some Custom Comp bullets but never loaded any.

I have used the 6.5 140 RDF and they shoot fine in my 6.5/284.
I loaded some 140 RDF in Creedmoor for a buddy and we did some whitetail cull hunting and shot several deer with the Creedmoor and my 6.5/284. They worked very well and even held together and exited with 2" hole on a couple of double shoulder shots.
 
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