Was able to do some shooting today, had a blast.
I don’t have the adaptor for my dies to seat the Berger’s properly so I only loaded up ten 168gr VLD’s that they gave me the load data for, plus I don’t have a bullet comparator yet either so I just loaded a few to see how they would turn out. I had a bunch of 162gr eldx’s I loaded up with some r26 as well.
I loaded 50 rounds all together, 10 VLD’s and 40 ELDX’s.
Here is the first 6 shots getting it on paper then close to zero. Well there’s one shot you cant see, it’s just at the very top of the target.
Then here is my 4 shot group, it would have been 5 but I ran out of those bullets. You can see the shot in the top right hand corner that wasn’t visible in the first pic.
I don’t smoke anymore but I still have lighters kicking around for starting fires and reference
I worked my way up to 69.5gr of r26 with no signs of pressure whatsoever, I think I can keep going up. All in all I’m totally impressed with the performance so far, I don’t think it’ll be too hard to find a happy spot with the ELDX bullets either.
Here’s all 50 shots.
