Turbulent Turtle
F-TR competitor
When Swampy sadly passed away a while back, it seemed like JLK bullets had reached the end of the line. I started looking at alternatives and for a while I tried the Hornady 230gr A-Tips out of my F-TR rifle. It was not a success, to say the least. Every time I shot, it was a roll of the dice on what would come up on the target. My scores suffered greatly, but I wanted to give them a real try. For TSRA LR last month, I loaded my match ammo with my remaining A-Tips and gave them one last chance. The Saturday matches were more of the same roulette wheel results, but on Sunday, things changed a bit, for some reason, and I actually won the last match of TSRA Long Range in nasty switching winds with a 197-something. I thought I had finally found the holy grail of loads for the A-Tips in my rifle.
Fast forward 2 weeks and I had just enough loaded A-tips for the next local match where I discovered that the random placement generator I thought had left, came back with a vengeance, the fiend. I was out of A-tips, finally...
As luck would have it, I found a shipment of Swampy's 210gr JLKLBT in my garage, where I had stored an overflow and forgotten about it. (Age; I can hide my own Easter eggs.) Thankfully, I had written down the exact specs of my last batch of match ammo with these bullets in my rifle notebook. So I loaded up 200 rounds for this month's TSRA Mid-Range match. It was like night and day, like someone had thrown a switch or something. It was fun again, but I was still sad that I had the last batch of JLKs produced and once gone, they were gone.
Come to find out that JLK bullets are back. Currently they are only making the 224, 6mm, and 6.5mm but I reached out to Ed Faber, I'm guessing the new owner of JLK bullets, and he is planning on making the 210 JLKLBT in the near future. I hope to have enough JLKs to tide me over until they become available from Ed.
JLK Bullets site
Fast forward 2 weeks and I had just enough loaded A-tips for the next local match where I discovered that the random placement generator I thought had left, came back with a vengeance, the fiend. I was out of A-tips, finally...
As luck would have it, I found a shipment of Swampy's 210gr JLKLBT in my garage, where I had stored an overflow and forgotten about it. (Age; I can hide my own Easter eggs.) Thankfully, I had written down the exact specs of my last batch of match ammo with these bullets in my rifle notebook. So I loaded up 200 rounds for this month's TSRA Mid-Range match. It was like night and day, like someone had thrown a switch or something. It was fun again, but I was still sad that I had the last batch of JLKs produced and once gone, they were gone.
Come to find out that JLK bullets are back. Currently they are only making the 224, 6mm, and 6.5mm but I reached out to Ed Faber, I'm guessing the new owner of JLK bullets, and he is planning on making the 210 JLKLBT in the near future. I hope to have enough JLKs to tide me over until they become available from Ed.
JLK Bullets site