Black Hills Ammo

[M Jager]

I am concidering picking up some black hills ammo to do some varminting. The particular round I am looking at features a molycoated 52 match hollow point. I have heard that match bullets have a tendancy to be very fragile (some big game hunters cuss them) or almost non expanding (some varmint hunters cuss them). Does anybody have experiance with this particular round? Specifically accurracy and performance. Thanks in advance for any and all imput
Matt

 

[cookhj]

i've seen groundhogs shot with a 25-06 with match rounds, and all of them were killed instantly. although it's not the preferred round, you CAN use them on smaller varmits and still make clean kills.

 

[dakotasin]

if it is red box stuff, it is great ammo. accuracy is better than most factory stuff. in my wife's 22" 223, they chrony out at 3196 f/s and a s.d. of 17 - very good numbers for factory.

if it is blue box, then i don't know - never used it in my rifles, though my buddy likes it.

edited to add: bullet performance is highly dependant on velocity. w/ a 223, you'll shed velocity fast enough that by the time you reach 250 +/- yards, your 'explosiveness' w/ matchkings will cease, though you'll easily kill prairie dogs w/ one shot far beyond that.

 

[JohnKSa]

I'm not big on moly-coating, but I've shot the uncoated blue box Black Hills 52 grain Match HP stuff.

It does better than 1/2 MOA out of my Thompson Encore @ 100 yards.