Fellas
It's a little late but here's an update on the 154. it's a dead chicken. I had four 137 hammers and two each154 and 168hhts that I shot to 502 yards. Well Willie shot two of them that's the hammer Trail in the video. I would love to tell you and show you the two holes in the cardboard but that didn't happen yeah you should hear me laugh. No fear 6 miles to the nearest anything in that direction.
In all fairness to Willie he had bad issues with acquiring a cheek to stock weld (consistant sight pic) on my rifle and in all actuality on his rifle too. we had to remove his cheek pad for it to fit into my rifle rest. And he never mentioned this to me until we were discussing what had happened later in the day.
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We shot two rifles Sunday morning, one was Willie's 300 RUM using the 120 lever hammer zeroed for 1 inch high at 100 yds. The other was my 300 rum shooting the 137s 154s and 168s being zeroed at 2 in high at 100 yds.
We would shoot one rifle then hop in the side by side and go down and put a tick mark so there was no confusion on what was happening. I would shoot then Willie would shoot I would shoot then Willie would shoot all the way to the very end. Shooting one shot and moving the rifle and bringing it back to position gives me confidence in real world situations instead of it sitting there never being moved .The last two shots (137) with the hammer trails we're fired Bang Bang after all data was annotated.
I shot the 137 one time and we drove down to check Target it was just noted that I needed two clicks to the left that's the adjustment you see in the figuring. The adjustment to the left also helped because Willie's rifle was printing down the right side of the cardboard. My second shot with the 137 reacted to the two click adjustment and the adjusted group of Two Shots was three and three quarters of an inch. Not bad for last year's bullets loaded in October.
Next up was the 154's, they produced a two-shot group of four and three quarters with a vertical dispersion of four and three quarters not too happy with barely Moa from this pill.
Last but not least was the 168 hht. This was the pill that kept me up all night. The first two shots the previous day at 378 yards the bullet holes touched, the third (because I had to shoot it) created a group of an inch and three-eighths wow!!! I needed to see if this would repeat. I had to move the target up approximately 4 in because I knew my drop would be greater than the 137 154 bullets. That's the big lines you see next to the Target and below the Target so I could use as measuring points for my drops. I was happy to see that the first shot landed at 6:00, that was pretty cool. At about 19 in low. It's a little farther than my drop should have been, still got math to do. Chronograph will be back with me in 2 weeks then we'll see. The rifle was left to cool blasi blasi blasi. The second shot landed approximately an inch and one eighth to the left. When I saw that, I was like no way, I might actually have something here! It's repeated twice over the bench and at three separate times firing. One more time across my bench (which I made 10 last night) and I will be more than happy. I'll be over the moon actually.
The accuracy potential with these bullets is ridiculous, but I will add that I went to Georgia fully believing that I was going to use the 154 and tests at distance showed that not to be the case.
This place and these bullets are awesome!
Joe