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I have some loaded at reduced powder and I'll see if that works, but I'm probably with you, to just abandon them and shoot other bullets. The 175's are great and accurate. Learned a lot. thanks for all posts
Reduced load or not, shoot at a target where you can actually see an impact. This reminds me of a hunt with an acquaintance a few years ago. He was shooting a .270 Win using factory ammo. He sighted his rifle the day before but ran out of ammo. He purchased another ammo with the same weight but not the same lot/brand, hoping it would impact the same. He took 5 shots at an antelope <300 yards and missed. Luckily, he had an opportunity for another shot. My other buddy and I were watching it unfold. Another friend hunting with him handed him his rifle to harvest the antelope. The moral of the story is always to know your POI, regardless.
Never heard of a Berger having these "Hornady" issues.
Yes jacket thickness
Is it possible that the more supported nose/meplat of otm style jackets resist high rotational forces better? Maybe it has nothing to do with brand A vs B.
Eh, it still melts a pretty gigantic hole if that's your thing. It's still a lot of inertia and SD even if it starts shedding weight immediately. That shed weight is violent in the extreme. I think it's a perfectly viable wounding theory if you take your shots with that in mind. If a gun shoots it, it's accurate and predictable. Plenty of people still getting exit holes on deer. Tons of retained energy. It's not for everybody but it has a lot of a thing some people have a lot of success with, especially starting at the distances the majority of hunting bullets start to fall out of reliability.
That's beyond Me! But an interesting thought.
Guessing it may have something to do with throat condition after a "few hundred rounds".
That is a tough one, I'd be tempted to blame batch or barrel age. I wanted to get 2800 out of my saum but it didn't even get close, that's some great numbers. One plan for the summer was to move them from .1 off to .01 and get a different powder, but maybe I'll just stick to the slow lane so I can keep using these things.
Hardly even shows fire cracking and no signs of a carbon ring. 300 rounds out of a SAUM is certainly not many and I was pretty surprised to see bullets quit reaching the target. Even more strange, they'd make it to 400 and pop somewhere after there....
284,400 is fairly moderate for RPM. I have heard a lot of issues for SOME people of the 180 ELD-M coming apart. Even at lower velocity and slower twist rates. Not sure why, as the ELD-M is not that thin of a jacket.
