Nope. I use Hornady 108 ELD-Ms and 110 ATips. Both work excellent with H4350. If you wanted another powder VV N160 is also very good with them in my rifles.
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Nope. I use Hornady 108 ELD-Ms and 110 ATips. Both work excellent with H4350. If you wanted another powder VV N160 is also very good with them in my rifles.
Kmccord
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I appreciate it, I know the 108 ELD-M Hornady Match Ammo I was not impressed with, I would have two touching then a flyer or three that were all about .5 in apart from each other. I do like the cost of those ELD-M's, I may pick up a box to give a try.
The factory 108 ammo shoots great in my rifle but every rifle is different. If you load them I am sure you will see a different outcome.
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My go to in 3 different rifles, 2 precisions 1american predator is 41.5 H4350 behind a Hornady 105 match. Truthfully I kinda sorta worked this up for the first one and I'm too lazy to try anything else. Shoots under 1/4 in the heavys, less than a 1/2 in the predator. The only thing I don't like about this load is it only flings sod poodles about 1 in 5 to 10 times. 400 yards and under a 100 grain Hornady boattail or any 100 grain Sierra works better for reaction and shoots for sure minute of dog. And honestly if the wind isn't bad, I'll use them a lot farther. The weird thing, I think anyways is the change in POI. At 100 yards between the 100 and 105 Hornadys is close to an inch of elevation and a 1/4 inch windage with the 100's lower and right. Either way not a big deal. I do load the Pred with 100 grain Partitions also since the wife loves this ugly little rifle and with those it's more like 3 inches off. But that's what Partitions do in almost everything it seems.
blksno
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115 Dtacs and RL16 for me
born2hunt4ever
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I second this and actually was very hesitant to even try reloading because the factory 108 eld m shot consistent 1" groups at 200 yards. I haven't tried that 105 berger hunting vld past 100 due to extreme fire warning. I did shoot an antelope doe at 458 yards using the 108 eld m and I was very impressed.
Jim’s Hunt
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41.0 gr H4350 115gr Berger VLD target cci450 in Lapua brass 1-7 twist on a rem 700 action
.300 Dakota
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Not for your current repertoire, BUT RL17 and the Hornady 103gr ELD-X hunting bullets were a match made in Heaven in my factory 26" 7.5 twist Savage. 41.5 grains duplicated multiple times across the chrono. That was with Hornady LRP cases and Fed 210 Gold Medal Match primers. I was seating .068" off lands. Extreme spreads like 7 ft/s when it wasn't exactly the same. Used Hornady runout tool to correct concentricity then a Lee factory crimp die to uniform neck tension.
Somebody ran that data in Quickload and told me it should only be making 54,900 PSI (below minimum). Hornady listed it as a max load. Velocity was just short of 3200 at sea level, so I'd say there's no way it was as light was 54,900 psi. I'm sure I could have run it faster, but with those velocity spreads (and I had a tuner brake that took it down to about 1/4 MOA in the pouring rain) I let it be. Just throwing this in because RL17 and 103 Hornadys MIGHT be easier to find than RL 16 and those bullets you have IN THE FUTURE. Tuck this info in your back pocket and file it away for a later date. It's one of the finest combinations I've found for any rifle.
Kmccord
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Thank you.
Oldtime Shooter13
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Have you shot this load beyond 100 yds? I am curious if 7.5 twist will stabilize the 115's? I know that 105 A-Max's showed great accuracy at 100 yds in a 9.25 twist 243 Win to open up and start key holing at 200! The bullet required 9 twist or faster and the 9.25 would not stabilize them. At 100 it would shoot bug holes!
I am shooting a 7.5 twist 6 creed now. I thing 115's require 7 or faster twist?
I think you are being steered in the right direction overall.
Personally I'm not interested in anything over 109 grs. myself. I'm not shooting Berger bullets because I have better things to do with my life than hunt the internet for them. That said I don't doubt they are excellent bullets.
Hornady 108 ELD-M's do very well to 1300yds. For bulk shooting 105gr Barnes Match Burners will put a smile on your face. I haven't shot the 112's but I understand they do very well.
40.6 grs of H-4350/cci 450/rem 7/12 is an excellent load that will save a little barrel life. 41.5 grs +/- will thump whitetail deer with authority using the Hornady 108's.
Personally I'm not interested in anything over 109 grs. myself. I'm not shooting Berger bullets because I have better things to do with my life than hunt the internet for them. That said I don't doubt they are excellent bullets.
Hornady 108 ELD-M's do very well to 1300yds. For bulk shooting 105gr Barnes Match Burners will put a smile on your face. I haven't shot the 112's but I understand they do very well.
40.6 grs of H-4350/cci 450/rem 7/12 is an excellent load that will save a little barrel life. 41.5 grs +/- will thump whitetail deer with authority using the Hornady 108's.
115 will be fine in a 7.5 twist. I shot one for years in my match rifle.
6mm creedmoor Howa 24" heavy bbl. The shot at the steel silhouette is at 290 yds from my bench at home. 41.5 grains is consistent with several post using H4350. So I would say it would be a good place to work up to. Your rifle will tell what it likes.
