New to 300 PRC, advise?

[DaveTooley]

1-9 is all you need. My Hvy 1K BR rifle is a 9.5 and loves 225 ELD-M's

 

[long40shot]

I picked up some ADG brass and a box of the 212 eld-x to get the rifle sighted in and work up a load for practice/deer. For the some longer range loads should I skip the 225 eld-m and go to the Berger 230s? Or is that a Ford vs Chevy argument?

 

[nwmnbowhunter]

I picked up some ADG brass and a box of the 212 eld-x to get the rifle sighted in and work up a load for practice/deer. For the some longer range loads should I skip the 225 eld-m and go to the Berger 230s? Or is that a Ford vs Chevy argument?

I have way better luck working up loads with berger 215 hybrids than 225 eldm

 

[Wildcats]

I picked up some ADG brass and a box of the 212 eld-x to get the rifle sighted in and work up a load for practice/deer. For the some longer range loads should I skip the 225 eld-m and go to the Berger 230s? Or is that a Ford vs Chevy argument?

you forgot MOPAR

 

[DaveTooley]

Not saying the 230's won't be accurate but there's a reason the military chose the 215's over the 230's for the 300 Norma Mag.

 

[bradb]

215 with 570 and Alex work with his reamer work, darn good for me

 

[long40shot]

1-9 is all you need. My Hvy 1K BR rifle is a 9.5 and loves 225 ELD-M's

Any clues on your load data for the 225s?

Thanks

 

[DaveTooley]

Any clues on your load data for the 225s?

Thanks

Moderate load of Rl-25. It wasn't fast, just accurate.

 

[MTlager]

The 225 M work well in my 10 twist Lilja barreled hunting rifle. I could shoot them close to 3000 fps with RL 26 or Ramshot magnum. I wanted a mellow elk load to shoot with suppressor. This one works !

 

[long40shot]

The phone call came! I picked up my rifle from the smith a few days ago. It looks great, he always does a great job for me. Also, I picked up some VV N570 the other day. I loaded up a handful of hornady 225s with it, that is some chunky stuff. I'll give the hornady bullets a try first, then if they aren't performing the way I hope I'll try some Berger 230s.

 

[long40shot]

First range trip with the PRC today was a good one. I tested some 212 eldx and some 225 eldm. It was cloudy and cool, about 73°, barely any breeze to speak of. I had a suppressor on the gun the entire time today. I went to the local 100yd range, luckily it wasn't busy and I got a bench off to the side away from the others. I tried H1000 with the 212s, it shows great promise. 77.0grns had a nice group with decent chrono numbers, 79.0 had good numbers, but it double grouped. With the 225s, I first tried N570. I tried 78.0, 79.0 & 80.0. 78.0grn had a really nice group but the numbers were crap. With the 79 & 80, the groups weren't great and the numbers were crap. I suspect i need more powder to slip into the next node. The 225s with H1000 show good promise, I tried 76.0, 77.0 & 78.0. Out of the three, 76.0 had a decent group but the numbers were crap. 78.0 had the best numbers of the day but the group wasn't the best, however that was the last group of the trip and I was getting a little flinchy. So I will
revisit that one for sure. So I think for next trip I'm going to concentrate on the 225s. I will try a few more N570 loads with more powder, then some H1000 loads with a bit more as well. The brass and primers both look great throughout the 50 shots I made today. I do realize that the numbers could change next trip since I was fire forming brass today, funny I could tell a real difference, mainly in the shoulder area, in the virgin brass vs the fired cases. I would have posted a couple target pictures but the range was hot and I was in a rush to get home, so next time. Let me know if you have any thoughts on my results. The picture is the fired brass on the left, a new case on the right.

Thanks
Matt

 

[long40shot]

The 225 M work well in my 10 twist Lilja barreled hunting rifle. I could shoot them close to 3000 fps with RL 26 or Ramshot magnum. I wanted a mellow elk load to shoot with suppressor. This one works ! View attachment 1683616

Does that say 400yds?

 

[long40shot]

Glamor shot.

 

[MTlager]

Does that say 400yds?

yes, it was 400 yds

 

[Maximus1840]

My 225 ELDM load is 78.5 of H1000

 

[long40shot]

Well, i just pulled the trigger on a box of Berger 230 Hybrids. Brunos has them on special for this weekend.

 

[long40shot]

I got out this morning to try out the 230 Bergers with N570. I started low at 78.0, the group was great, the numbers were great, but pretty slow, about 2750. I worked up in .5 grain increments to 81.5. Everything was loaded at 20 thou off. Groups weren't great and the numbers weren't either until I got to 81.0. At 81.0 the group was good but the numbers could be better. 81.0 was running right at 2900. I felt like I was struggling a little getting comfortable on the bench for some reason. At 81.5, I started getting some primer flow, so I'll not go any higher. What sort of ES are you guys getting with your pet loads?

Thanks
Matt

 

[long40shot]

Went back out this morning and did some more testing the 230s with N570. It was about 60°, calm with 83%rh. The 81.0 looked promising on the last trip, so I loaded up 80.8, 81.0 and 81.2. I shot a 5 shot group at 100 for each. The numbers looked pretty good for each of them and the group at 81.0 looked the best. The other groups would've been better if a good shooter was on the rifle, but I'm going with 81.0 for now. So here is the work up, ADG brass, CCI 250 primers, VV-N570 powder, Berger 230grn target hybrids seated about 24 thou off. 81.0 gave me a five shot average of 2917fps out of a 25 inch barrel with the suppressor on. As soon as the corn is cut I'm hoping to get out and print a couple groups at 600yds. Maybe if I'm lucky, I can get over to a local range that has steel out past 1000yds. I'm really enjoying this new cartridge, thank you everyone for all your advise so far.

On a side note, my fire forming load has been doing very well too. I've been running the 212 eld-x over 80.4grn of H1000. It's giving me an average velocity of 2955. I could probably go higher, but I'll retune for the fire formed brass with the 212s later for a nice whitetail load. I haven't ran any of the 230s out of virgin brass, only once fired. Overall, I'm happy.