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Best weight .224 bullets and powder for F Class 300 Yard
Best weight .224 bullets and powder for F Class 300 Yard
What are your opines on the best weight bullet for this event? Rifle will be a Savage Model 12, 26" barrel, 1:9 twist. My son-in-law wants to try 300 yard F Class.
Thank you in advance.
Rusty
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28 July 2009, 07:50
<Andrew cempa>Given that it has a 1/9 twist, your best success at 300 probably would be with 68/69 grain match bullets of any reputable variety (US makers, or Lapua, not knock-off folks like prvi or armscor).
You can push a 68 grain bullet at around 3000 f/s, but accuracy is the most important quality. wind at 300 is not really an issue, maybe a minute or two in 10+ full value wind.
28 July 2009, 07:51
<Andrew cempa>oops, assumption was a 223....
It is a 223 Remington. Thanks for your information.
Rusty
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DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
30 July 2009, 07:26
308SakoRusty, 69 Sierra MatchKing and 23.1 grains of VV 135, velocity chronographed at 2725 ft/secs F205M, Winchester brass 2.255 COL... Amazing, absolutely amazing from my 1 in 9 Colt Hbar Elite 24".
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31 July 2009, 02:12
swampshooterI agree with the previous post but there are a lot of good bullets in this weight class. Hornady is also readily available. Even 55gr. bullets should shoot well enough at 300 yards from a 1 in 9 twist to be competitive at that range.
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23 March 2010, 05:43
1/2moa@20070gr Berger VLD works great. As well as the 69smk, BC is better in the vld. Ive heard some 1-9s good threw Nosler77custom comps! But the 69smks with 25gr of varget smoke! As well as the 70 vld! good luck.