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Reloading for VLD bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="WRG" data-source="post: 404514" data-attributes="member: 13638"><p>I feel your pain and gave up myself! Wasted many bullets, powders, & primers trying to get the VLD to fly. Best I could achieve was MOA in a 25-06. Also tried them in my 7mm RM & 300 WM with no better results. Many who have had success will tell you it takes some distance before the bullet goes to sleep and load developement needs to be done further than the normal 100 yards. It truely is a long range bullet and not sure how well it would perform as far as expandtion on game animals at high velocity under 100 yards anyways. </p><p> </p><p>With other bullets that I have had success with, your TTSX, Combined Technology, Sierra and so on, I seem to find best results when I know what the particular rifles velocity vibration nodes are. Accuracy was there if I targeted those velocities no matter which bullet I was testing though one bullet would stand out from the others. However, I did change the way I did my testing and got away from the basic ladder work-up and switched to Dan Newbury's method. Simular in some aspects to the ladder but uses a round robin approach which has yielded a much easier and faster way to locate those velocity nodes. But nothing I own liked the VLD no matter what I tried. Followed Bergers recommedations to a tee with no success and decided they were not worth the effort and moved on. If punching paper is your game you can't go wrong with the SMK or if your looking for a hunting bullet there are better bullets out there that are less difficult to work with. IMO</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>WRG</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WRG, post: 404514, member: 13638"] I feel your pain and gave up myself! Wasted many bullets, powders, & primers trying to get the VLD to fly. Best I could achieve was MOA in a 25-06. Also tried them in my 7mm RM & 300 WM with no better results. Many who have had success will tell you it takes some distance before the bullet goes to sleep and load developement needs to be done further than the normal 100 yards. It truely is a long range bullet and not sure how well it would perform as far as expandtion on game animals at high velocity under 100 yards anyways. With other bullets that I have had success with, your TTSX, Combined Technology, Sierra and so on, I seem to find best results when I know what the particular rifles velocity vibration nodes are. Accuracy was there if I targeted those velocities no matter which bullet I was testing though one bullet would stand out from the others. However, I did change the way I did my testing and got away from the basic ladder work-up and switched to Dan Newbury's method. Simular in some aspects to the ladder but uses a round robin approach which has yielded a much easier and faster way to locate those velocity nodes. But nothing I own liked the VLD no matter what I tried. Followed Bergers recommedations to a tee with no success and decided they were not worth the effort and moved on. If punching paper is your game you can't go wrong with the SMK or if your looking for a hunting bullet there are better bullets out there that are less difficult to work with. IMO WRG [/QUOTE]
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