DustyGmt
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So opening day begins next weekend in Vermont and I had settled on 140 gr NBT's for hunting and got my rifle sighted in for those and then I started poking around online and hearing from different people that they preferred the 120's over the 140's so I ordered 2 boxes of them from Nosler and they took forever to ship and will probably not arrive til mid week. I also noticed that wherever I happened to go that sold ammo, more than a few places, were always out of stock on the 120gr fusions and NBT. 7mm08 is often pretty scarce where I go but there is always some, never 120's.
My concern is, worst case scenario I dont have time to sight in with the new ammo, should I expect a pretty significant shift in POI? I'm guessing it likely will.
I could not get 140gr nosler partitions to group well to save my life (3-4moa), all over the place possibly bad batch of ammo but I pretty much ruled out user error with several trips, the 140gr BT did better, maybe 1.25moa. I have some 150gr Federal PSP's that grouped really well (MOA or better) out of my compact American and I'm wondering if I should just stick with those, where I plan to sit overlooks a powerline and my shot could stretch. Another reason I liked the sound of the lighter 120's.
My bbl is 18" 1/8.5 twist iirc. Any suggestions. I will more than likely find a small swath of time to go sight in I just didnt know if it would be an absolutely bad idea to carry the substantially lighter loads into the woods without testing them....?
My concern is, worst case scenario I dont have time to sight in with the new ammo, should I expect a pretty significant shift in POI? I'm guessing it likely will.
I could not get 140gr nosler partitions to group well to save my life (3-4moa), all over the place possibly bad batch of ammo but I pretty much ruled out user error with several trips, the 140gr BT did better, maybe 1.25moa. I have some 150gr Federal PSP's that grouped really well (MOA or better) out of my compact American and I'm wondering if I should just stick with those, where I plan to sit overlooks a powerline and my shot could stretch. Another reason I liked the sound of the lighter 120's.
My bbl is 18" 1/8.5 twist iirc. Any suggestions. I will more than likely find a small swath of time to go sight in I just didnt know if it would be an absolutely bad idea to carry the substantially lighter loads into the woods without testing them....?
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