Rich Coyle
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My 8mmCoyle has .400" jump in the magazine. Groups for five shots run from 9/16" to 1".
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My 8mmCoyle has .400" jump in the magazine. Groups for five shots run from 9/16" to 1".
thanks for the info
i'm guessing you mean .040"?
Rich Coyle
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Nope. .400". I guess when the barrel was rebored they thought it should have the Weatherby freebore since it's a Mark V.
interesting.. sounds like it shoots well for ya, I don't plan on loading anything that far off the lands tho
IHFarmer07
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Yes it's expensive but, the ammo is customized to your rifle, your custom components that make it shoot faster, flatter and smaller groups. I did a component price check on what I have in each every bullet and rounded up on it so. What I have in my custom 6.5prc loaded ammo using the lathe turned aluminum tipped Badlands's bulldozer copper bullets is: $.234 for 54.4g of powder, $.0375 cci200 or $.0425 for fed210m, I payed $144 for 100pcs of Gunwerks brass so 1.44 a case but I got 8 loadings out of that so I divide that by 8= $.18 per loading so you can look at it either way you want and lastly a $1 per bullet. So on the expensive one time and chuck the brass loading comes to about $2.77-$2.78 per round but you include reloading into the mix I have a $1.45 in each loaded bullet!! That is what/why I don't mind shooting a bullet that cost more, plus each and every bullet are soooo close to one another in weight, shape and form.
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Send it 284
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I'm looking into switching over to monos myself, I'm tired of mega lead contamination.
Do the Hammer bullets have competitive bc's to something like an ABLR?
Do the Hammer bullets have competitive bc's to something like an ABLR?
No mono is ever gonna have BC's like that, That's the trade off and I'm perfectly fine with it myself
nicholasjohn
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I'm not sure how it all calculates out in the formula, but the denser material produces a higher BC somehow or other. Like yourself, nobody seems to mind the slightly lower BC's of the Hammer bullets, vs. one with a lead core. I think the animals are equally un-impressed with the difference.
Send it 284
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I'm seeing really impressive bcs for monos from cutting edge and PVA, advertised anyway.
IHFarmer07
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I'd say there is maybe a mono that has the bc of the ablr, maybe, but you would have to get target monos that won't work for hunting. King of 2 mile guys seems to make monos work as they hold higher bc's farther out and are way more consistently made than a cup/core.
I should have been more specific, I assumed we were talking about hunting bullets
IHFarmer07
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The Lazers are what some of the KO2K use and they work great for hunting according to barrbor creek shooting academy. They tested the lazers and they were shockenly great in the gel test they did. But I draw a price line and those exceed said line of mine!
