The 12vbss-s .223 was doing a good job today A fellow approached me and asked if I would be interested in buying some 75 gr Black Hills .223 ammo and some 68gr. of the same. Said his wife's Howa did not do well with it. I bought it and the 75 grainers was about 2" at 100 yds. The 68 grainers did a 5 shot 3/4" group at 100 yds.

My buddy's Tikka dublicated the 75 gr. result and produced a one hole three shot group with the 68 gr. bullets.

The 12bvss-s shoots sub MOA with the 75 gr. Hornady BTHP match bullets. FYI. roger

Bartsche, I have been shooting Black Hills 70g V-Max (blue box) in my CZ, H&R and AR. They shoot very well in all three. Also try the 52g HP Match bullets (blue box). They shot very well in my CZ also. OK in the other two.
The guy at S-M guns said he has tried just about every load from BH and these are the best that he has found overall.

Your Savage is a 1-12, right?

---Mike

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flippy:
Bartsche, Your Savage is a 1-12, right?

1 in 9 ,Mike.

Try the 70g V-Max load. It worked well in three 1-9 twist guns I own and a 1-12 twist Remington bolt gun (one of the regulars at the range---5 in under 3/4" @100 yards) and according to the guy that sold them to me they worked well in just about every gun he tried them in.

---Mike

Bartsche, the V-Max load is 60g NOT 70g.
After thinking about it, I went out and looked.
Sure enough 60g. Sorry for the confusion.

Originally when I bought these I wanted to try a 70g load in my .223s, but S-M did not have any.


---Mike