I have 300 of them and they are cannelured which surprises me. I guess I will use them in my 6MM Remington on a couple deer and maybe a feral hog or two just to temper my current 35 caliber whim just a bit. Any tales of performance on deer to 200 pounds or so?

The fact that they have a cannelure means that they were made for bulk ammunition manufacturers -- who always want to crimp their bullets. Although I don't care much for cannelures (how can it do anything other than slightly distort the jacket?), you won't likely notice much difference in their performance and that of a non-cannelured Solid Base.

I've used nothing other than the 100 grain Solid Base for deer in my .243 for many years. It is accurate, provides plenty of upset, yet penetrates well. The last deer taken with the .243 was at 375 yards with a single shot.

I also use the 130 grain SB in my .270 when I get serious about deer hunting.

I loaded some up using RL22. Might go to the range this weekend.

I hope that range is heavily shaded...

It's a scorcher here today. Just got in from some shredding. Finally had to call it quits and will wait till later this evening to continue.

Anyway, let us know how they shoot for you. I despise cannelures, but it's still a Nosler, and I'd wager that they'll shoot just fine.

Got mortered by my stepson, had to work on his car all day today. Cannelured or not these seem very well made.

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Although I don't care much for cannelures (how can it do anything other than slightly distort the jacket?)

Actually they do act somewhat as a mechanical lock for the lead. The cannelure isn't cut in these bullets....it's pressed in and the process actually does to some degree cause a slight lock of the lead core.

I've never looked at a cannelure as a negative and don't feel compelled to use it as a seating requirement.

Most all Hornady bullets are cannelured and they have a very good reputation for accuracy.

Vapo --

It's true that some manufacturers, particularly Hornady, have always promoted the notion that the cannelure on a bullet helps keep the core in place. Could be, but it appears to me that the weakening of the jacket at the cannelure (again, the mechanical process of pressing in the cannelure can't help but make a weak spot in the jacket) makes a place that promotes the jacket breaking apart, thus doing little to hold the lead core in place. I doubt there being much difference in either the accuracy or the terminal perfomance of a cannulure vs. non-cannelured bullet, but my prejudices rest with the plain, smooth, unruffled jacket.

I have to agree with Stonecreek in that I've always felt a cannelure could do nothing but weaken a bullet -- albeit perhaps insignificantly. I've seen Hornady bullets that had the cannelures misplaced (near the bottom of the bullet in some 6.5/129s) and some 7mms that had the cannelure crooked.

Hornady replaced my 6.5s but never bothered to contact me regarding the 7mm bullets. I gave them the info over the phone and was asked to send them in. I sent in 2 opened but full boxes complete with all of my information -- and this has been well over a year ago. I checked in about 6 weeks after sending them in but have not bothered since then.

That, along with an attempted sale of an obvious warranty item a couple of years ago, made me think Hornady's customer service needs somewhat of an overhaul. As the the warranty item: I bought a new set of dies, and the the tapered expander had a crack in it. I told her it was new, told her it was a warranty item -- and she still wanted to charge me. We did get that resolved, though -- after I asked to speak to someone else.

On another note, when Hornady had all the problems with the One Shot case lube, they did replace 2 cans of it quickly.

Currently working up a load for my 243WSSM AR15 and ran the following ladder w/100 gr. NSB bullets and Varget. Started @ 34 gr. and wound up @ 36.4 gr.

Velocities shown were taken 10' from muzzle. 36.6 gr. is listed as max. by Hodgdon, but with 2981 fps mv, so will probably ease up a bit more. Case head expansion is still .0002 -.0007" less than factory.

Was having trouble w/two stage trigger which caused #2 & 5 to break right(sometimes had the two stages w/hard 1st stage and other times it was just a single stage trigger w/very long creepy, jerky pull).



Looks like they are going to shoot OK.

Regards,
hm

PS These bullets do have the cannelure.