Lake City vs Greek(Pyrkal) .30-06 ammo

[Tejicano]

Has anyone chronographed any of the Greek HXP .30-06 ammo the CMP is selling to compare it to Lake City M2 Ball? Any ballistic info?

 

[P-32]

I haven't chronographed the Greek but I believe it shoots better than Lake City, at least in my M-1's.

 

[GRIZ22]

The HXP I chronoed went 2910 fps. ES was about 40 fps. LC went 2710 fps. I'd have to dig through my notebooks to get more data (lot, SD, etc).

 

[Geno]

Ooops. Sorry, errant post.

Geno

 

[AethelstanAegen]

I haven't fired any Lake City M2 Ball in my Garand in a while, but the Greek HXP is quite accurate. I've been very happy with it on the whole though it is quite dirty but nothing running a few more patches through the barrel/gas system won't fix.

 

[lmccrock]

I haven't chronographed the Greek but I believe it shoots better than Lake City, at least in my M-1's.

I know the Greek ammo shoots more accurately than late 60's LC, in my 2 M1 rifles, although I did not chronograph. By "more accurately", I mean the HXP ammo groups are half the size of the LC. YMMV with different lots of either.

Lee

 

[shootr]

No problems with the Greek ammo here either and it's plenty accurate for our club shoots.

 

[Tejicano]

Thanks, Grizz22. Our group at southtexasshooting.org began shooting the Greek ammo as our stocks of Lake City dwindled and CMP was only shipping us Pyrkal. I could tell Pyrkal was hotter than Lake City in my Garand and the 1903 shooters were adament there was more felt recoil. I had planned to reload the 1,000 or so cases of LC brass I'd saved to +/- 2900 fps and was wondering how it would compare to the Greek ammo. I appreciate the post.

 

[GRIZ22]

My Garand load uses a 147 gr bullet to about 2800 fps using A4064 and shoots a little better than HXP. Slower or faster and the accuracy drops off. You may not need to go to 2900 fps. As always watch your pressure when loading for a Garand.

 

[Jon Coppenbarger]

I think the greek stuff shoots fine. Did pick up some surplus 30-06 this weekend.
Found a person who had 3 cans of yugo 1957 non corrosive boxer primed M2 ball. Its been a few years since I have seen any of it. each can is a WWII 50 cal USGI side opening ammo can. it has 22 boxes of 22 rounds for a total of 484 rounds per can. He wanted $100 a can so I bought all 3 of them.
A person needs to be lucky once in awhile but still like to buy a few cans of the cmp greek stuff once in awhile to put away as some day when its all sold out at the cmp I will be wishing I had bought more.