will do. Unfortunately our weather is going to be very windy for the foreseeable future--but I should get a good idea anyway.Please let us know how they shoot.
They look OK in BC--though my guess not as much as the MK or vld's in that size range. When I first ordered them I didn't see the pop-up window where they are described as factory seconds--I thought they were actually made by RMR. Still, a bonded high velocity .224 hunting bullet is something interesting. Federal announced several years ago after several "missteps" they were rolling out a 100 gr fusion--I haven't been able to track one of those mythical beasts down.Wind? With the BC's those must have, I'd figure you could laugh at the wind.
Didn't think of that; makes a lot of sense, especially since that "pressure line" appears in the boattail taper--in other words from the base of the boattail to the top of the taper there's a change in the angle of the taper.looks like an under-diameter ram was used on the bullet base to push it through a die.
I know what you're talking about--I have several valk builds and when Berger rolled out the 90 gr vlds I bought several thousand of them. It took seemingly forever to find a good load to drive them. Yesterday I tried charges of 8208 xbr with these since that works great with grendels, I did get some moderate velocity loads that approached MOA at 100 which is pretty reasonable since these seconds are for hunting anyway. I don't think sub .5 MOA is in the cards with these--but who knows, maybe a different powder. I honestly don't think the 6.5 twist is to blame for failing to stabilize the 90 gr Bergers; I had some loads that key-holed and some that I eventually discovered shot just fine. My theory is that it's such a long thin high SD design it simply gets deformed too easily. Simply seating the bullet in the seater stem can change them under not much pressure if the bullet nose doesn't conform "just right." Also, there were at least two different "flavors" of chamber reamers floating around among barrel manufacturers after Federal's less than stellar roll-out of the valk; the net result being that the same cartridge/bullet could have pronounced performance differences depending upon which barrel you had. I invested thousands of dollars in learning this hard lesson.Even though Berger said a 6.5 twist would stabilize it, it didn't.