all this talk about the 156 EOL got me inspired to try them.
Specs on barrel
.130 freebore
Bartlein 3, 7.5 twist 24"
Forgot my bipod so had to improvise
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So my load for 143 eldx is 55.2 RL26
in Hornady brass with a CCIBR2 primer. This load is 3000 FPS
My 147 eldm load is 57.5 H1000, Hornady brass with a 210 primer. This load is 2975 FPS.
I decided to drop down 1.5 grains and use some Bertram brass I have Fired three times and neck turned due to extremely inconsistent neck thickness.
In my chamber the 156 EOL are 3.025 OAL to touch, and 2.320 BTO with my comparator.
I have to be at 2.975 to reliably feed from the Wyatt's box so that's where I seated them which was a .050 jump.
Loaded 4 each H1000, 210 primer, Bertram brass .050 jump.
56, 56.5, 57, 57.5 and 58, the plan was to shoot one each over the magnetospeed to get the speeds and foul the bore.
Fist shot 56 gr, clean cold bore was 2823.
Waited three minutes Fired 56.5, 2883
Slight pressure, felt on bolt lift.
Waited three minutes Fired 57, 2903
A little heavier bolt lift but not terrible. Decided to not go any higher.
Then I did a round robin OCW style test with 56, 56.5 and 57. Shoot a 56, wait three minutes, shoot a 56.5, wait three minutes etc.
This was done at 116 yards so 1 MOA is 1.21 inches.
Top target is with the magnetospeed and is why I don't do load development with it on the barrel.
Bottom three targets are three shots each and total .52 Moa for all nine shots across a full grain of H1000.
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I'd say these are going to shoot. Not much gained ballistically over a 143 or 147 except I prefer bergers for hunting. I've had very mixed results with the Hornady bullets on game.
Also nice that I didn't have to move my scope at all, dialed down 1.25 from my 200 yard zero with the 143's.