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Originally Posted by Paslode
Here is the grouping.
Distance was approximately 250yds (300 was too muddy). Slight cross wind from the SE @4-5mph. Temp around 55.
147g Win FMJ and 168g SMK were hand loads both with 44gr of Benchmark. The 175g American Ballistics were straight from the box. The AB looks like it did okay with 3 right about the same hole and a couple a bit off (probably me more than the ammo).
I had a case of spray paint I was pitching I did a little plinking with...The hand loads were by far more consistant with one shot, one can in orbit. I didn't have the same luck with the AB on the cans. I even had better luck with Wolf Gold 150g SP's than I did the AB.
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PL:
Hard to come to conclusions with three shot strings but I have to hand it to you that you ran an experiment and can draw some conclusions altough they are not backed by statistical power.
That 147 grain ball shot pretty well compared to the match grade others. That is kind of interesting so you may want to fire four or five each five shot strings with that load and bullet at 300 doing the same thing. Don't worry about holding for the wind. Just focus on shooting decent shots for four or five strings. Right now that 147 grain ball is flat lining and it may pay you in the long run to confirm that it will do this consistently at 300 as those bullets are much cheaper than match grade jobs.
If it shoots well at 300, chances are it will shoot well at 500. However, that 147 stuff ain't much good at distances much past 600.
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