Why in the heck is no one shooting this? HAHA
One reason why not too many are doing it is that a 10-twist is on the feeble side for the 95gn Hunting VLD. Using Litz's measurements, the sample bullets he tested averaged 1.132" OAL.
Run that through Don Miller's Twist Rule spreadsheet and you get Sg (coffecient of stability) values of:
3,050 fps ...... 1.14
3,250 fps ...... 1.17
under 'standard conditions' (59-deg F air temperature; 29.92 inches mercury pressure at sea level).
I too have in the past worked up loads with bullet and barrel combinations that give Sg values around 1.1 and which shot a dream at 100 but then found they wouldn't hold 2 or 3-MOA elevation at 600 yards and up, or which gave quarter / third-MOA groups at 100 one day and 1-MOA plus on another.
If you're a couple of thousand feet or more ASL you might get away with it as each 1,000 ft additional elevation adds ~0.05 to the Sg and if you can get up to the 1.3 level and above the bullet should become a reliable medium to long range performer. BUT .... even so, you WILL lose BC value if significantly under 1.5 Sg. Bryan Litz gives this bullet an optimum twist rate of 1:8.6 and a minimum twist rate for stability of 1:9.6, the latter a bit pessimistic IMO, but he has to allow for people shooting on very cold winter days. (
Ballistic Performance of Rifle Bullets 3rd edition by Bryan Litz.)
If you feed these numbers into Berger's stability calculator, you get
3,050 fps ................. 1.15 Sg; 11% loss of BC value
3,250 fps ................. 1.17 Sg; 10% loss of BC value
at the 1.3 Sg level if you can get there on altitude, you still lose 6% of Berger's claimed 0.239 G7 BC rating according to the program.
The company's 95gn Classic Hunter Hybrid bullet is a shorter design so can manage on a slower rotational speed. Even so, Berger recommends a minimum 9.6 twist barrel. In a 10 at 3,250 fps, its Sg runs at 1.37 in 'standard conditions', and Berger says that drops its BC by 4%.
(The VLD minus 10% BC and the Classic Hunter minus 4% actually have the same effective resulting BC of 0.215. However, with a near 1.4 Sg, the latter will likely behave much more consistently in a range of atmospheric / weather conditions and at all distances.)