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Well, I'm getting my range finder and ammunition tuned in for this fall deer season and am having a some thoughts about changing my bullet. My son't and I brought home 5 deer for 5 tags last season, but, every shot displayed terrible performance compared to the Hot Core I've used since the beginning of time. I would just return to the Hot Core but Speer doesn't offer a BT Hot Core for the 7mm and the flat base doesn't satisfy my need for long range trajectories as nicely as a quality BT does.
I looked at some Nosler and really like my options there. The 145 gr. Partition with a B.C. of .434 will scream out the barrel and no doubt excel in the expansion and weight retention department. So thats one of my serious consideration. I'm also looking at the Interbond 145 gr. BT with a B.C. of .485.
Barnes has some very impressive bullets and I've noticed they are really working hard to continue to improve on ballistics and accuracy to a greater extent. They have a whole line up of some bullets with better than past numbers from back in the late 1980's early 1990's. The TSX BT with a .412 isn't a bad sounding projectile. And the one I'm most interested in and hope I hear someones experience with it is the MRX BT witha .439 B.C.. I like the sound of the tungsten core. They boast some match grade accuracy with this hunting bullet.
Basically what I'm searching for is a bullet of decent integrity, bonded core or some other process slightly better than the standard cup base design. I need something that can handle being loaded up to maximum obtiable velocity with heavy charges of RL22. My adult Son's and I are using the Leupold RX-IV B.C. rangefinder which works to near precision BDC adjustments provided in either hold ove,r or MOA adjustments, and kicks back distance in feet, meters, or yards. It also compensates the angle of the shot. It's fully functional out to 1500 yds.. Last year I loaded some 130 gr. Speer BT standard run of the mill bullets. They flew with really good ballistics and were accurate with no exception, but they just didn't have the integrity to hold together as well as I wanted. We had shots that ranged from 325 yds. out to just under 600 yds. and the TBR on that RF was dead on with the BDC numbers.
So if any of you load at or near max with a high velocity cartridge above 3200 fps and have had a real good esperience with a particular bullet(BT) shoot my a post with some velocity and other pertinent data please.
I looked at some Nosler and really like my options there. The 145 gr. Partition with a B.C. of .434 will scream out the barrel and no doubt excel in the expansion and weight retention department. So thats one of my serious consideration. I'm also looking at the Interbond 145 gr. BT with a B.C. of .485.
Barnes has some very impressive bullets and I've noticed they are really working hard to continue to improve on ballistics and accuracy to a greater extent. They have a whole line up of some bullets with better than past numbers from back in the late 1980's early 1990's. The TSX BT with a .412 isn't a bad sounding projectile. And the one I'm most interested in and hope I hear someones experience with it is the MRX BT witha .439 B.C.. I like the sound of the tungsten core. They boast some match grade accuracy with this hunting bullet.
Basically what I'm searching for is a bullet of decent integrity, bonded core or some other process slightly better than the standard cup base design. I need something that can handle being loaded up to maximum obtiable velocity with heavy charges of RL22. My adult Son's and I are using the Leupold RX-IV B.C. rangefinder which works to near precision BDC adjustments provided in either hold ove,r or MOA adjustments, and kicks back distance in feet, meters, or yards. It also compensates the angle of the shot. It's fully functional out to 1500 yds.. Last year I loaded some 130 gr. Speer BT standard run of the mill bullets. They flew with really good ballistics and were accurate with no exception, but they just didn't have the integrity to hold together as well as I wanted. We had shots that ranged from 325 yds. out to just under 600 yds. and the TBR on that RF was dead on with the BDC numbers.
So if any of you load at or near max with a high velocity cartridge above 3200 fps and have had a real good esperience with a particular bullet(BT) shoot my a post with some velocity and other pertinent data please.