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Berger Bullets 30 cal BT - 4 NEW BULLETS

As many of you know several shooters are testing four different 30 cal heavy BT,non-VLD) Berger Bullets. First, I want to thank those of you who spent your time and components helping us with this project. I am eager to see results from those who have not reported in yet.

The feedback we received compels me to officially add these bullets to our line.

Announcing the addition of four NEW Berger Bullets!!

Berger 30 cal 155.5 gr BT Palma BC = .486
Berger 30 cal 175 gr BT BC = .528
Berger 30 cal 185 gr BT BC = .570
Berger 30 cal 210 gr BT BC = .647

These bullets, like all our BT bullets, are designed to be an alternative to the VLD. The BT bullet is made with a tangent ogive, which proves to be less sensitive than the VLD,VLD bullets use secant ogives). The BT design is meant for those who do not have the time or desire to tune their loads as much as is sometimes needed when using the VLD.

Also, the BT bullets typically shoot well when seated off the rifling. This is useful for those shooters who feed through a magazine or do not want to stick a bullet in their barrel if they have to extract a live round.

For clarity sake, when the VLD bullets are dialed in they typically perform better in flight,higher retained velocity, less drop and wind drift). Also, our VLD design is proven to be very effective on big game. The BT bullets behave differently on game and are not recommended for hunting.

Our dealers were notified yesterday,3-26-08). Some will be set up to accept orders sooner than others. If you find that your dealer is not taking orders for these bullets yet you can place orders directly with Berger at 714-447-5456 to insure getting some from the next production runs. It is important to note that our prices are a bit higher than our dealers.

The production run for the 30 cal 155.5 gr BT Palma will be first. These should be ready in 2-4 weeks. The rest will follow and should be made in the next 6-8 weeks.

Regards,
Eric
 
We recently completed testing on our new 6.5mm 140gr. BT,non-VLD) bullet. The BC is .593. It should be available within the next month or so.

Regards,
Michelle
 
Bob Gustin shot the new 140 gr 6.5 bullets in the first match of the Folsom 1000 yard any/any prone matches. His score was 200-13X.
 
How is it that the bc you list is higher than that of the VLD design listed on your website? ,I am going from memory on this)
 
The has been an interesting aspect of the 30 cal BT development. So far we have made heavy BT bullets in 22 cal, 6mm and 6.5mm. Each of these have a BC that is lower than our similar weight VLD.

The 30 cal VLD are not as streamline as the other caliber VLDs. All of our VLDs,except the .270 cal) were designed by Bill Davis. I suspect,speculation) that Bill was compromising the 30 cal VLD design slightly either due to the high number of 30 cal shooters who use magazines or in an effort to address the sensitive nature of the VLDs.

The result is that our 30 cal BT design has a profile that produces a higher BC than our 30 cal VLDs. It will be interesting to see how things progress from here. I do not have the intension of designing a more streamline 30 cal VLD given the success of the current version. I will be watching this situation with great interest.

Regards,
Eric
 
EricStecker said:
Announcing the addition of four NEW Berger Bullets!!

Berger 30 cal 155.5 gr BT Palma BC = .486
Berger 30 cal 175 gr BT BC = .528
Berger 30 cal 185 gr BT BC = .570
Berger 30 cal 210 gr BT BC = .647

For clarity sake, when the VLD bullets are dialed in they typically perform better in flight,higher retained velocity, less drop and wind drift).

Eric,

I posted the following over on the hide but I thought that I post it here in case you missed it over there. Related to the above post about the BC.

The published BC of the BT 185s,0.570) and 210s,0.647) is higher than the published BC of the VLD 185s,0.556) and 210s,0.631). Given the same weight,and presumably the same muzzle velocity), how is it that the VLDs retain higher velocity and have less drop and drift than the BTs, as stated in your post above? Was the term "typically" meant to denote that your statement may not apply to the .30 caliber BTs and VLDs? Seems very odd, given the published BCs and the fact that the announcement was limited solely to .30 caliber bullets.

Gary
 

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