300 Win Mag ELD-X load testing?

[TikkaHunter94]

which primer

Wlrm's

 

[tomcat818]

Has anyone with a 300 Win Mag had a chance to shoot the ELD-X bullets yet? I curious how they are grouping and what kind of speed you are seeing with them so far?

Any load data would be appreciated.

I have both the 212 and 220 gr. but have not shot them yet. I loaded a dummy round with .001" neck tension for the 212's to determine where the ogive hits the jams and didn't like how far the bullet was seated in the case. I did the same with the Berger 215 HT and with the hybrid ogive it gave me much better seating placement and I was able to hit the velocities I wanted. With an 8 twist 26" lite bull barrel H1000 produced a .143 3 shot grp @ avg vel 2809. VV570 was very consistent across the 6 charge weights I used for OCW testing shooting 5 out of 6 sub MOA with the best @ .733 avg vel 2,905 SD 6.17. The super accurate node with the H1000 is small and the SD is 11.1 so I'm thinking it makes sense to further optimize the VV570. I like the SD and velocity better and should be able to get it under .5 MOA. The only downside is VV570 is known to be a barrel burner but not going to worry about replacing the barrel at some point.

 

[tomcat818]

I just started loading for my 300wm. It shot factory sig 190 otm great so iloaded190gr speer with 77.5 of h1000 and it's a tac driver. I have never actually chrono my rounds. A guy at my range let me use his to chrono a 5 shot string and I was floored. My group at 100 was .4. Not bad for a mediocre shooting old man.

Stadoc - is that the 190 impact? I've been thinking about giving them a try

 

[tomcat818]

Will try this again. I loaded some 212 ELDX for upcoming hunt. Got all my data from Hornada. Loaded 3 different powders at varies weights and went and shot them. One of the loads was 72 gr of H4831 and it shot so well that I just quit and loaded them. Will not saw it is half moa but most holes touch at 100 yards. Shooting 26 in barrel 1-8 twist at 2870 fps.

Like me it sounds like you might be shooting a Browning X-bolt one of the few factory 300WM that offer an 8 twist barrel. Are you shooting SAAMI max COAL for that load. I have some 212's and am curious especially if you are shooting a Browning. In my rifle this bullet finds the jams @ 3.524" COAL. Didn't realize I had responded to an old thread... some threads never die I guess.