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Hornady 180 eld-m VS 180 Hybrid

A friend of mine has done some shooting with the 180 ELDMs in an 8-twist and confirmed a G7 bc of 0.385 out to 1k. He has also shot steel out to 1600 with them and got reliable hits based on that bc. If I had an 8 twist I would be switching.
 
I shot them at a couple of matches and they shoot a full 2 moa higher than untipped Berger Hybrids at 1K. I am not convinced they are as consistent yet but the BC is great. I had one "miss" with all the rest 10's and 9's. I have never had a miss in over a year of shooting so don't know what happened but a zero pretty much takes you out of the competition. Another guy was shooting them and shot very well. The load was 51.3 g of H4350.
 
My freebore ended up being too short for this bullet and I was not able to get consistent results at 200 yds during development. I would get a few .25" groups at 200 and keeping everything the same, I would try the same thing a day later and it yielded 2" groups! I checked bedding, swapped scopes and the rest of things one would consider checking when things get erratic.

My bullets were definitely seating beyond the dreaded "donut" and running a seating depth test from zero to .020" jump made no difference.

I have since increased my freebore by .065" and the bullet is clear of the "donut". I will do another powder/seating test to see if freebore and the "donut" was the issue.
 

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