02-19-2022, 08:21 PM
Made it out to the range this AM. Was dealing with temps in the low teens & 25ish MPH wind gust. Beats the 35 to 40 MPH winds we experienced yesterday. Anyway this simply was not a good day to be pushing for top accuracy & that was not todays goal, for me any-way. Ill say Despite the conditions accuracy was at least fair with the few initial loads I tried little over MOA.
I had overlooked the ballistic gel test in the link & above. Keeping in mind the likely Velocity difference between my 22" bolt action loads & their slower 18" AR loads along with target medium, I am not surprised at difference in our results. Ill verify velocity on a future range trip, though I was expecting roughly 2800 FPS with the 29.4 GR CfE 223 & same weight of Lever Evolution. The 29.4 GR happens to be a moderate accuracy node with 108 GR Elite hunter over Lever-evolution in this 22" CZ527 bolt action. To be clear this load is likely to hot for an AR load.
That loads is pushing the 108 GR Berger bullet at 2780 FPS.
In the past I have found velocity & pressure to be very similar for a given charge between these two propellants.
With the wind chill today I just wasn't up to dealing with the Magneto speed this morning to verify or quantify velocity.
The 106 gr bullet was good for just a little over three 1 gallon water jugs. Fired 2 bullets into the series of 1 gallon water jugs. Copper jacket & core completely separated by the 4th water jug with both loads. One load just penetrated the 4th jug & the other never quite penetrated the 4th jug. These water jugs were right at 100 yards from the muzzle.
For deer hunting I prefer a bullet that does a better job of retaining weight. I expect this bullet may do a better job of holding together at lower velocities.
For me, this bullet will likely be delegated to target shooting or coyote control.
I had overlooked the ballistic gel test in the link & above. Keeping in mind the likely Velocity difference between my 22" bolt action loads & their slower 18" AR loads along with target medium, I am not surprised at difference in our results. Ill verify velocity on a future range trip, though I was expecting roughly 2800 FPS with the 29.4 GR CfE 223 & same weight of Lever Evolution. The 29.4 GR happens to be a moderate accuracy node with 108 GR Elite hunter over Lever-evolution in this 22" CZ527 bolt action. To be clear this load is likely to hot for an AR load.
That loads is pushing the 108 GR Berger bullet at 2780 FPS.
In the past I have found velocity & pressure to be very similar for a given charge between these two propellants.
With the wind chill today I just wasn't up to dealing with the Magneto speed this morning to verify or quantify velocity.
The 106 gr bullet was good for just a little over three 1 gallon water jugs. Fired 2 bullets into the series of 1 gallon water jugs. Copper jacket & core completely separated by the 4th water jug with both loads. One load just penetrated the 4th jug & the other never quite penetrated the 4th jug. These water jugs were right at 100 yards from the muzzle.
For deer hunting I prefer a bullet that does a better job of retaining weight. I expect this bullet may do a better job of holding together at lower velocities.
For me, this bullet will likely be delegated to target shooting or coyote control.