87 gr VMax

[Barlow]

Anybody using this bullet for competition or paper punching? I'm thinking about giving them a try this spring at 300 in my 6 Dasher. Loads would be helpful. Barlow

 

[waterfwlr]

I use them for my .243 and 6BR. They shoot really well out of my 12 twist BR. I also weight sort them. I think there are better bullets for competition and paper punching but I use them primarily for varmint hunting. Pretty good BC for a 87.

 

[NCVarhtr]

You might want to sort them Base to ogive also. There is a lot of variation in some boxes and some variation in almost all boxes.....

 

[5spd]

While I don't shoot competition I do use them for coyote/antelope/paper punching testing loads.
BC is very good, accuracy in my all stock Savage .243, 22" bbl prints an average of .700", in my 6x6.8 AR15 22" bbl, they print .400"-.560" I know other 6mm shooters, 6woa/6dti/6 fat rat/.243/6x47/6xc etc that run them and using a better barrel get cloverleafs on paper.
IMO its not a bullet I would use in comps though.

 

[waterfwlr]

Heres a 5 shot group from my 12 twist savage shooting those bullets:

 

[Barlow]

I measured a box of them base to ogive and found them very consistent. If we ever get spring I am going to do some testing with them. Thanks for the replies. Barlow

 

[lpreddick]

measure the suckers! i once weighed a box of 100 and NONE of them weighed 87 gr!!! measured base to ogive and there were no more than 12 in a group. i used an egg carton and filled all twelve with some being .015 different. i contacted hornady and they sent replacements...THE SAME LOT NUMBER! measured and they were clones. all weighed 87 gr and base to ogive was .001-.002 difference. perfect.

 

[CatShooter]

" ...THE SAME LOT NUMBER! measured and they were clones. all weighed 87 gr and base to ogive was .001-.002 difference. perfect."

There is an almost religious belief that lot numbers actually "mean something", like everything in the lot is the same. Sometimes, that is true, but more often, it can mean anything. Manufacturer can use lot numbers to indicate what date it was made, even if it came from different machines, and one bullet company uses lot numbers to indicate ANY change, even if it does not effect the bullets - Mary takes a tinkle break and John sits at the machine... and John's bullets gets a new lot number... Mary comes back, and she gets a new lot number again - 250,000 bullets might come off that machine, all with the same bunch of jackets and cores, but have 90 different lot numbers.

Most people sort Lake City brass by date, but there are many machines making cases at the same time, and they do not change anything on Jan 1st, except the date on the dies - the dates do NOT confer any thing similar, or any difference between 2012 and 2013 production. A hand full of LC - 97 cases came off of 10 or 20 or 30 different machines.