I’ve never ran a rod and patch down them. I have two rifles that are stamped 9 and neither will shoot the 75hpbt so I use 55-68gr in them and my 8 twist gets fed 75’s and down.
Hpbt, after trying them in the 9’s I’ve never tried the eld in my 9’s.
I tried about 3/4 of a box hpbt with different powders in my 9’s. Never had a keyhole but never had a group under 2”. Same bullets shoot great from my 8’s.
I use the Sinclair small and large rifle
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I run a pocket cutter through just about all new brass. I bought 250 pieces of 6.5 Grendel Hornady brass and my rounds wouldn’t chamber the primers were so high. After cutting them they are fine.
I’ve had 0 luck getting the Scirocco to fly from mine. The 90 tac-x is interesting I will admit.
I’ve seen enough big hogs killed with the 108 Hornady eldm from 60-100yds from a 6 Creedmoor that I’ll have my Howa 6arc loaded with those in the fall.
Another bullet I have on hand is the...
A friend is using a bolt gun and Varget with the 105 hpbt. It’s definitely not a speed demon but he had 6 shots under 3” at 600yds the last time he took it for a drive.
He’s getting 2600 from an 18” bolt with the 105 and 25.7grs of Varget.
If you have any available I’d look at it and...