Don’t hear much talk about them, just wondering if many shoot Hornady bullets in competition?
You might find this of interest:Don’t hear much talk about them, just wondering if many shoot Hornady bullets in competition?
I shoot the 80 and 88ELDs in my 223 palma rifle and not noticed any difference between the 80/90 VLDs except in my pocket book. The 88's shoot exactly the same as the 90s.
PT&G made my reamer it has .120 freebore, as short as you want to go for 88/90s but it shoots them nicely. Back when you could call and get Dave on the phone I told him I wanted somthing for 80s that could shoot 90s, at the time wasn't planning on doing so. At our club there has been about 5 or 6 rifles chambered with my reamer and a couple other guys have gotten their own. It technically isn't set up for 88/90s as should have longer freebore but they do shoot.What chamber do you have in your PR? All my LR stuff is .308 but I think the less recoil of the .223 is a significant advantage.
I shot 80 ELDs in my SR the last three years and just got a Bartlein and had WOA put a .223 Holliger chamber in it. It's .040 longer than a typical Wylde. They shot so well in the Wylde we started playing around with the 88s, but so far I think the 80 ELDs are at advantage in a Service Rifle with a Wylde chamber. It will be interesting to see how the new barrel & chamber like the 88s. I got almost 4K of them for .23 cents or so so they better work.
Yep, same here. Blowing out brass is the only time I use Hornady bullets. Too many times and too many rifles I have tried them in and always went to a different bullet.Well I use them for fire forming and foulers to save my good bullets for matches
because like most here you never hear people shooting in most competitions.
but I was just wondering so I ask. they seam to be about the only bullets you can find on the shelfs these day Which mite tell you something
Rardoin, what twist were you running with the 190 A-tips and at what velocity were you running them?I will qualify my above post.... Hornady A-tips are the most consistent in dimension of any bullet I have ever measured (and I am not alone in that statement). Intra lot and inter lot variation is miniscule...better than any 'custom' bullet I have used. I shoot F-class and the precision is not there for that game and, although I do not shoot that discipline, I presume inadequate for bench rest also (if they were, the BR guys would be all over the A tips for LR). That does not mean that they are not wholly adequate for some types of competition. The ballistics of the 190 A-tip compared to other competitive bullets in LR F-class are stupidly superior. Ask Omar Alonzo how they shoot in a tropical storm at 1000.But, only one barrel worked with them...and that same barrel shot Berger 190 hybrids consistently very well (go figure...).
So to answer your question more precisely...it depends upon your game.
Uncle Bill I can sum it up in a word....Yep, same here. Blowing out brass is the only time I use Hornady bullets. Too many times and too many rifles I have tried them in and always went to a different bullet.
8.0 and 8.25tw, 30-32” barrels, velocities from 2650’s up to 2820’s. My only barrel that liked them shot them best at 2680’s and 2780-2800fpm. This barrel also shot the infamous 190 hybrids very well also. I wish I would’ve tried 180 hybrids in it as I suspect this was one of the rare ‘hummers’.Rardoin, what twist were you running with the 190 A-tips and at what velocity were you running them?