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Received my bullets on Saturday. Loaded up 15 (all the empty brass I had) on Sunday and went to the "range". Load is 68gr of IMR 4350. I went to the Barnes Manual and just picked something safe. 3 shots into just over an inch. This shooting off of my pack on top of a concrete picnic table, so not exactly benchrest conditions. Good enough for the moment. I'll let everyone know how they work once I get to hunting and find a suitable elk.

nice bloke

I received mine Monday. Am working with a brand new rifle I'd never fired so I went to the range Tues with a box of factory loads to get a baseline and fire formed brass. Put 20 rounds of Weatherby 180 Spires thru my 300 Weatherby and got pretty consistently around 1.25" for 3-shots @ 100 yds. Going to put some loads together tonight w/ IMR-7828 & the 155 gr ACPs Battered sent me and then Saturday morning hitting the range!

I'll report back first thing.

Thanks again!!

Wow easy bullets to work with; thanks again Battered for allowing me to try these out!

Here is baseline:



I requested Quickload data on the 150 TSX & IMR-7828SSC which I had laying around. I cross referenced that w/ Nosler & Hodgdon data and decided to try 3-ea of 85, 87, & 89 gr in 1x Weatherby cases sparked by Federal Magnum primers & seated as long as would function in the mag.

Like I said; WOW. First try!




85 gr IMR-7828SSC

Obviously precision-machined projectiles. A brand new unproven rifle & sub-MOA load on the first try. Can't wait to see what these do to deer!

I'm loading up the rest of my ACPs, get it zeroed, and taking it as my sole deer rifle this season!

cool........now go put some meat down!!!!!!!!!

how did you guys that already loaded decide on a starting seating depth?

or are you just loading them as if they were a barnes for powder, depth, ect...

Tim -

Strictly speaking for myself. When/IF I don't have any idea of where to start on COAL, I've found that the FACTORY coal is NOT a bad place to start.

Alot of folks say they start by finding the lands and backing off +/- .1". Some magazines won't allow that so....

I start at the max that will function thru the magazine.

This is what I do.....so hope it helps.

Jerry

Mine has the "Weatherby throat" so I seated it as long as would function through the mag knowing it'd have a long jump anyway.


Basically my approach was to treat em like a TSX; used load data for TSX charge-wise too.

Michigan opener is Sinday; hopeful for some terminal results to follow!!

I received the 120 grain sidewinder in 7mm to use in my 280AI, started with the high load of the Barnes 280 (starting for 280ai) using RL 19. Shot a nice 3 shot group last night so I loaded 5 more and went hunting this morning.

Missed one doe first thing. Connected on a spike, small horns but nice body so I'm not complaining. He dropped to the shot, lungs were mush when I gutted him about an inch exit hole.

cheers tim, look forward to some pics champion

So what are the bc's on all these ACP bullets ?

The Barnes LRX bullets have a long profile with tips and have boat tails but still the bc's ain't that great as compared to the Cutting Edge MTH bullets .....

These are stubby, light FLAT tail bullets, what will they do that the multitude of US made bullets can't do ? MTH, LRX, TTSX, TSX, GMX etc, etc ....

Sorry mate, i just read this. what will they do differently......They work differently for one with the staged petals on the projectiles, sure all bullets will kill. we art here to bag anyone else. Oh and they are made in the usa

if you have any .452 bullets I'll kill a big buck with them from a muzzleloader. my season is all next month

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hopefully the links work. the shot was a shoulder shot so did mess up a bunch of the shoulder with bone fragments but you can see the 120 grain 7mm sidewinder bullet did a nice job. deer dropped in his tracks. The lungs were pure mush, excellent result on the hydrostatic shock

FYI, they don't.