120gr 6.5 Lapua

[M-61]

Anyone with any experience with these bullets?
Theirs is the only 120’s that I can find that are available. I have no experience with any of Lapua bullets.

 

[bobke]

Use them for 6.5 Grendel with AR Comp. 2550 and VG accuracy and low SD’s to boot. Have run in 6.5CM AR’s with either AR Comp or Varget with success. Wouldn’t be afraid to run in 6.5x47, as well. Different ogival shape than 123 Scenars, so work up accordingly. Very consistent BTO, meplat and weight, in my experience. Have a bunch, so standardizing to use of same.

 

[whatsupdoc]

Shoot them in my 6.5 Creed they are very accurate and easy to tune.

 

[PopCharlie]

I have some experience with the 123 gr Scenars. I used H4350, and cci450s. These bullets liked to be jambed in my 8 twist Criterion barrel. Which seemed somewhat odd to me. The Berger 120s, 130s and 140s all liked to be jumped.
Edit: this is a 6.5x47L
PopCharlie

 

[CharlieNC]

123 Scenar is the most accurate bullet I shoot in my 6.5x47. Faster than the 140gr bullets makes up for lower BC in terms of drop out to 1000yd but gives up windage sensitivity. Great bullet!

 

[AckleymanII]

Anyone ever killed any deer and hogs with the 120g Lapua?

 

[rijndael]

123 Scenar is the most accurate bullet I shoot in my 6.5x47.

I have the same experience with the 123 Scenars and my 6.5 Creedmoor. They're great.

I have multiple consecutive 5 shot groups =< .3 @ 100Y. That's with a bipod off a rigid table.

 

[Laurie]

Like other Scenar-Ls, the 120gn 264 is very, very well made. IME, it shoots very well indeed in various cartridges and barrels. My current use is 6.5 Grendel (like @bobke) out to 300 yards in a factory Howa 'Mini Oryx'. A friend from the same rifle range found it produced superior short-range results in a 6.5X47L custom job some years back when this bullet was new on the market. It's the best bullet I've loaded in the Grendel to date by a pretty large margin, but I've yet to get onto the various 123s and the 130gn Berger OTM Hybrid-Tactical.

In the past I've used the been-around-forever 123 Scenar in various cartridges and rifles with excellent results including a 6.5X47L F-Class rifle that was used up to 1,000 yards. It remains my favourite model in this weight, although who knows I may yet find something as good or better one day. I like it so much, I've often chosen it vice 139-142gn combinations depending on the wind conditions at the start of a match in cartridges up to the 6.5X55mm.

The one downside of the 120 Scenar-L is that it's relatively blunt and therefore high-ish drag. Its (Litz) G7 BC average is 0.242 whilst the 123gn Scenar model gets 0.265. (This is however still better than some of the competition with the old 120gn Sierra MK down at 0.213. By contrast, the most recent version of the Sierra 123 MK is up at an impressive 0.272 BC thanks to an excellent form factor of 0.928. Note though that this version - the meplat-'pointed' one - is a revised/improved shape over its unpointed predecessor with a longer more secant nose and shorter shank sections.) The other plus of the 120 Lapua Scenar-L is that it's close to being a true tangent ogive design and therefore very jump-tolerant.