Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting 6.5-284 Norma loads for long range.

Holy chit,too bad you won't be doin much shooting in the future!!!

Nice rig-your using a hunting bullet for 1000yd competition, did you try the 142 SMK, if so please comment on your findings. Have a great day.

That's way cool, aalf. Quite a rig. What is the real difference between Berger target and hunting bullets? I've heard all sorts of things, like no difference at all.

Isn't H-4831-SC one of those Extreme series, Australian powders that's reportedly very temp stable?

DF

The pic with the 5 groups is with the 142's.

At one time there was just the standard VLD's. Then people were finding that certain barrels would blow up the 140's, so they ended up making the 6.5 140's with a thicker jacket and designated those TARGET bullets, and packaged them in the yellow boxes. The original 140's, with the "thinner" jacket is now the HUNTING bullet, and packaged in the orange box.

I was one of the fortunate ones that had issues with the bullets not making it to the target. It was an 8 1/2" Krieger. Interestingly, my 8 twist Broughton, with more rounds through it, would not. There was no rhyme nor reason to it. I retired that barrel early. I probably could have went to the SMK's, but kinda lost faith in it.

Yup, the H-4831 is an extreme powder. I shoot the same load at 30 degrees or 90. I do keep them in a cooler to avoid the extremes though.

Maybe it was the Broughton's rifling that was less aggessive to the thin, J4 Berger jacket. I have a .308 with their 5C rifling that reportedly has a slight bevel on the cutting edge to engrave less into the bullet jacket. Just a thought.

DF