Federal TLR and Trophy Bonded Tip

[coop2564]

I'm not liking the TLR so far in my 300wsm very fussy on seating depth and just haven't found a solid load, burned thru a box of 50 and still not close to where I want my groups. Think I'll move on down road.

 

[the444shooter]

This was 500yds with gusting winds this afternoon. Gotta tweak my numbers since I'm about 1 MOA low. Pretty pleased with them so far.

 

[KU_Geo]

This was 500yds with gusting winds this afternoon. Gotta tweak my numbers since I'm about 1 MOA low. Pretty pleased with them so far.

444, what bullet are you running and what BC are you using? Wondering how inflated the BC are or if they are actually close to reality.

 

[the444shooter]

It's the 7mm 155gr. I have .610 plugged into my app (Istrelok) but I'm betting I screwed up my input somewhere along the way. These things have the same profile as an ABLR and are actually longer than the 168gr ABLR by .015, so I'm thinking the BC is pretty accurate, and I would place blame in my data versus theirs.

 

[KU_Geo]

Good to know. Encouraging that the BC seems realistic

 

[Brianc74]

What is suggested for jump to the lands?

Brian

 

[the444shooter]

I don't know if there is a suggested jump. I just got lucky and used the same COAL as my ABLR

 

[Korhil78]

I bought 250 of the 7mm 155 Gr TLR bullets to try out in my 7mm Sherman MAX when I get it built at the end of this summer. Will start out with a seating depth test and then move to powder charge testing.

I am going to be sending some of these bullets to Barbour Creek for them to shoot at a gel block at around 700-800 yards to see how they do. Should be interesting.

 

[JC Lepley]

I would've liked to find RL26, but had the H1000 available to me. I'm thinking Retumbo or RL26 might be able to push them over 3200 pretty easily in my gun (27" barrel)

I get about 100 fps more velocity with near max charges of R26 compared to H1000, and with about dozen or more different bullets, only one or two bullet, brass combinations are best with H1000 for accuracy. Now that I have spent a year messing with bullets, the R26 supply goes away or gonna mess with the recipe.

 

[NickW]

Here is a review of the Fed Edge TLR .284/7mm 155gr bullet on several game in Africa.

https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/...ral-284-7mm-155-grain-edge-tlr-bullet-review/

 

[rustyshackleford]

Loaded up some 175's in my 30-06. They seem to shoot fine but I do think the additional bearing surface limits the velocity. I loaded mine out to 3.350 and got serious primer flow at 2810 ft/sec. Accuracy was fine though. Seem to have a really good node right around 2750 ft/sec with H4350.

 

[SeboCreek]

My son shot an elk at close to 400 yards with the 180 gr TTB Federal from a 300 RUM for one shot kill. Had better luck with them than the Federal TLR bullets. FWIW.

 

[the444shooter]

My son shot an elk at close to 400 yards with the 180 gr TTB Federal from a 300 RUM for one shot kill. Had better luck with them than the Federal TLR bullets. FWIW.

Can you expound on this, please?

 

[SeboCreek]

Tried 175 Federal Edge TLR in 300 RUM using RL 26 which was one of their suggested powders. Plenty of speed but no groups that were satisfactory. Worked up from 87.0-92. Which were within their data. Best was 90.5 but inch at best. Tried H1000 and RL 23 too. Tried 180 gr. Fed TBTip and started with ReL 23. Shot from 81-85.5 gr. Best load 84.8 at about 3150 FPS average. Was shooting a little over .5 MOA.