Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles 127 LRX Expansion

I'm planning on using a suppressed 6.5 Creed for cow elk if I get tag and been waffling between the 130 Accubond and 127 LRX. I had my Tikka barrel cut/threaded from 24 to 18.5. 41g of RL 17 gave ~1800 fps prior to chop, and now yields ~2650. Barnes lists initial expansion down to 1600 fps. but I couldn't find any low velocity tests of this bullet.

Anyway I got around to testing the LRX with water jugs and a reduced load of 19.5g AA5744 for a velocity of 1770 fps. Here is the recovered bullet after passing through 6 gallon jugs and stopping at the log backing them. I feel pretty good about the results since I will not drop below 1800 fps until beyond 450 yds, and I'm not taking a shot that far. Not massive expansion but almost double diameter to .45.





I need to gather more jugs and try that Accubond too. Curios how it will fair that slow.