09-26-2020, 09:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-26-2020, 09:30 PM by Dino11.
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Went to the range yesterday, beautiful day,sunny, 75*, light breeze.
Set up our targets at 100 and 300 yards, there are always targets at 600 and steel at 200,300,400,500,600.
I was shooting Nosler RDF 105's as that is the load I have worked up the most and I now believe after reviewing months of data today have finally found the gold, at least for my rifle and it works well for my son as well.
After reviewing data for over 100 5 shot groups, some of them were not so impressive. I was having some problems recently with high SD's and traced it back to my old digital scale that I have had for about 15 years gave up the ghost. So I purchased a Frankford Arsenal Intellidropper, nice piece of equipment. My SD's went from 20's and as high as 30 recently to an average of 8 on this last trip. I did take some of the old reloads with me and the SD's went to 18 from all single digit SD's loaded from the new powder dropper.
The sweet spot seems to be loading with Leverevolution topped with Nosler RDF 105's, OAL of 2.215
Best groups 29.4gn @2680 to 2700FPS, .5 or less MOA @ 100 yards.
Very good groups 29.7gn @2730 to 2750FPS, .5 MOA @100 yards.
This is months of data collected, and I did take out the more recent data that I knew was bad from the scale being wonky.
I will add that I really do not see any variance between the Nosler RDF's and the Hornady 108 ELD's They both shoot almost Identical speeds and accuracy with the 108's losing just a little velocity. And maybe just one click of elevation in favor of the Hornady pills. So I don't think I need to work up a load for them.
It is amazing how these things do in the wind, it doesn't really seem to effect them much at all.
I was approached by a gentleman at the range. He walked up and asked how I liked my 6 ARC, I thought that was rather odd because nobody that I have spoken to even knew what it was. He said He saw the ammo boxes on my bench, I had to put some of my reloads in them because I ran out of the plastic ones I use. They were at the next bench over and my brass was landing next to them. Well after a couple of min talking about the gun he told me he was a rep for Hornady, he was their coaching another guy there and setting up his rifle for PRS. We talked for a while he seemed nice enough and was a wealth of knowledge, but not so much on the technical stuff. I think he must of been a sales or marketing rep, but he did pass on a phone number I could call to talk directly to an engineer for tech info.
Set up our targets at 100 and 300 yards, there are always targets at 600 and steel at 200,300,400,500,600.
I was shooting Nosler RDF 105's as that is the load I have worked up the most and I now believe after reviewing months of data today have finally found the gold, at least for my rifle and it works well for my son as well.
After reviewing data for over 100 5 shot groups, some of them were not so impressive. I was having some problems recently with high SD's and traced it back to my old digital scale that I have had for about 15 years gave up the ghost. So I purchased a Frankford Arsenal Intellidropper, nice piece of equipment. My SD's went from 20's and as high as 30 recently to an average of 8 on this last trip. I did take some of the old reloads with me and the SD's went to 18 from all single digit SD's loaded from the new powder dropper.
The sweet spot seems to be loading with Leverevolution topped with Nosler RDF 105's, OAL of 2.215
Best groups 29.4gn @2680 to 2700FPS, .5 or less MOA @ 100 yards.
Very good groups 29.7gn @2730 to 2750FPS, .5 MOA @100 yards.
This is months of data collected, and I did take out the more recent data that I knew was bad from the scale being wonky.
I will add that I really do not see any variance between the Nosler RDF's and the Hornady 108 ELD's They both shoot almost Identical speeds and accuracy with the 108's losing just a little velocity. And maybe just one click of elevation in favor of the Hornady pills. So I don't think I need to work up a load for them.
It is amazing how these things do in the wind, it doesn't really seem to effect them much at all.
I was approached by a gentleman at the range. He walked up and asked how I liked my 6 ARC, I thought that was rather odd because nobody that I have spoken to even knew what it was. He said He saw the ammo boxes on my bench, I had to put some of my reloads in them because I ran out of the plastic ones I use. They were at the next bench over and my brass was landing next to them. Well after a couple of min talking about the gun he told me he was a rep for Hornady, he was their coaching another guy there and setting up his rifle for PRS. We talked for a while he seemed nice enough and was a wealth of knowledge, but not so much on the technical stuff. I think he must of been a sales or marketing rep, but he did pass on a phone number I could call to talk directly to an engineer for tech info.
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