Berger 224 80g vld

[dazza284]

Gday all is anyone using these in a 223r with a 1:8 and if so are they fully stable ie are you getting the full BC .


Cheers D

[SteveL]

Hi Dazza,

I have used that bullet in an 8t 223 and they shot very well. Not sure about the BC and stability side of things?

[dazza284]

Steve the reason I ask is years ago I shot the 6mm 95gvld in a 1:10 barreled 243 and after crunching the numbers the bc of .486 turned out to be .410 or so close to a 87g vmax it was a wast of time this was out to 800y , but they did shoot very well at 525y 0.4184 MOA

[RDavies]

Steve the reason I ask is years ago I shot the 6mm 95gvld in a 1:10 barreled 243 and after crunching the numbers the bc of .486 turned out to be .410 or so close to a 87g vmax it was a wast of time this was out to 800y , but they did shoot very well at 525y 0.4184 MOA

Shooting the 95gn in a 10" twist I'm not surprised you didn't get the full BC. It might not have been too bad in summer, but the BC would have been terrible in winter. It was for me the very few times I tried to shoot 95s in a 10". I switched to shorter 87gn pills in 10" which were much more consistent all year round.

[SteveL]

Fair point Dazza, i suppose all that i can add from here is that it did hold together at 900 metre's.

[dazza284]

Oh well I guess I will find out when the rifle gets here as l just bought 800 of them .
We all know the supply issues and I'm not going to end up missing out I was not going to take the chance on just getting a 100 to try and then find out their all sold out .