100gr ELD-VT in 6.5 PRC?

[KyShooter]

Has anyone been playing around with this bullet and cartridge combo? If so what powder have you found best fit. I’d love to push them around 3500 fps to wreak havoc on coyotes!

 

[208 Fred]

Sorry You haven't had any response as of yet to your question. I just bought some and loaded them for 6.5 Creedmoor and I hunt Coyotes in Idaho so wide-open areas are common. I have had the 95gr V-max bullet all last year and really liked them for Coyotes as them do a great job of putting them down. I slowed them down with 40grs of Varget and they shoot really consistent at 3000fps. The 100 gr ELD-VT are a new design, and higher BC so should serve me better. I'm reaching out to that 400 yds with a Thermal scope and that's quite a poke from a tripod at night. I look forward to hearing how you do with them in your 6.5 PRC

 

[jamesl]

Has anyone been playing around with this bullet and cartridge combo? If so what powder have you found best fit. I’d love to push them around 3500 fps to wreak havoc on coyotes!

I have been using staball 6.5 with this combo, was using the 95gr vmax and a4350 and it was okay that combo got me 3550fps. I like the 100gr eldvt better fits the longer freebore in my prc better. I'm running 3525fps and it is reasonably accurate. Hornady is listing data for the 100gr eld-vt on their app now. If you can get rl26 it would probably give you best velocity and case fill, but hybrid100v, a4350, magpro, staball 6.5, superformance, and n560 are all listed for top velocity. When I ran it through quickload rl26 was the top powder.

 

[mic2377]

Wow that sounds awesome, I may have to give this combo a try. I had recently tried the 95 Vmax in the 6.5 Creed and it was definitely a winner. Able to push it to 3100-3150 over 8208 XBR with a 22" barrel and accuracy was very good. Haven't shot anything with it yet. I would think a speed in the 3500 fps range would achievable with the 6?5 PRC... I have just been using 140 class projectiles.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Sorry You haven't had any response as of yet to your question. I just bought some and loaded them for 6.5 Creedmoor and I hunt Coyotes in Idaho so wide-open areas are common. I have had the 95gr V-max bullet all last year and really liked them for Coyotes as them do a great job of putting them down. I slowed them down with 40grs of Varget and they shoot really consistent at 3000fps. The 100 gr ELD-VT are a new design, and higher BC so should serve me better. I'm reaching out to that 400 yds with a Thermal scope and that's quite a poke from a tripod at night. I look forward to hearing how you do with them in your 6.5 PRC

Let us know what you end up with on the new bullet with Varget. Thanks .

 

[208 Fred]

Let us know what you end up with on the new bullet with Varget. Thanks .

I found a YouTube video that shows numbers, etc for the 6.5 PRC with 100 gr ELD-VT. Elchupagoat is the guy who posted it. You'll like it as it addresses your question. He got good SD and ES with the Garmin, however I can't say I was impressed with his groups of the loads. He did get crazy velocities but not that accurate of groups on any of the loads. I did get some 6.5creedmoor loads with the 100 eld-vt and I found really good sub-moa groups with 41.5grs Varget powder 3190fps however the es and sd (7.4) where just OK... Then at 42.5grs Varget, 3284fps, great sd (4.3) and terrible groups... So maybe the good es and sd isn't the best with higher velocity as the accuracy is forfeited. My barrel is a 20" Proof Carbon Fiber 1:8 twist. Suspicious that with the higher velocities stabilizing is more difficult???

 

[prcwv]

OGIVE is 3.270 error in my fat fingers. Thays Hornadys length of 2.900 OAL. Shoots under half inch.

 

[prcwv]

Worked really well last night. First 2 sound like soup inside with just small entry hole. This was result i was expecting.