95gr VLD can't hit paper out of a 1:8 6CM

[300WSM]

Yeah, I'm still scratching my head on this as well. There's a first for everything, I guess.

Most of us in this industry try to pay it forward...

Might I suggest, if you haven't already, give the fine folks @ Berger a call and explain what you've experienced with complete detail. The rifle itself and then what has shot well to of course the Berger that is completely missing the target.

I say pay it forward because I'm sure they'd like to hear of this issue and the lot#...etc etc....
PLUS...It might help another shooter in the future with such a phenomena you've experienced

 

[jmad_81]

Most of us in this industry try to pay it forward...

Might I suggest, if you haven't already, give the fine folks @ Berger a call and explain what you've experienced with complete detail. The rifle itself and then what has shot well to of course the Berger that is completely missing the target.

I say pay it forward because I'm sure they'd like to hear of this issue and the lot#...etc etc....
PLUS...It might help another shooter in the future with such a phenomena you've experienced

Thats not a bad thought. I certainly wasn't bashing Berger, I shoot a lot of their bullets. It was more of just trying to see if anyone else had ever seen anything like that with any bullet. I hadn't.

 

[300WSM]

Thats not a bad thought. I certainly wasn't bashing Berger, I shoot a lot of their bullets. It was more of just trying to see if anyone else had ever seen anything like that with any bullet. I hadn't.

I completely understood and wasn't accusing you of any ill slander toward those folks.

They do take pride in their product and the more shooters the merrier. Thus if an issue arises like yours I know they'd love to hear about it, note it, correspond with you plus a possible remedy if possible.

Mark my words if it happen to you it's only a matter of time until someone else is chasing their tail...


Maybe they had a bad batch slip out the door but I'd definitely pass it along.

Good shooting brotha

 

[gerry]

Just a thought here, maybe you know someone locally that could load a few of those up and see how they group out of their gun. Not sure what twist they need for them but it could give you some answers.

 

[ElmerThud]

I won a 20" barreled Christensen chambered in 6CM at a local fundraiser last spring. I'm running a Dead Air Nomad Ti on it and have been shooting the 108 VLD out of it for the last year. Due to the short barrel, I'm only getting about 2900 fps at the accuracy node. It's plenty of fun, but I wanted more speed for dinking around on the farm. I bought a box of the 95 gr VDL and loaded them over some RL16. I couldn't get all 3 shots out of any of the 5 loads I tried to hit the page at 100 yards. I was completely baffled. I thought it was the scope, so I swapped it out. It wasn't the scope. I thought maybe I was getting baffle strikes somehow so I took the can apart, no strikes.

I loaded up the last few 108s I had over my proven charge of H4350, and it shot tiny groups again.

Have any of you ever seen a rifle in good working order hate a bullet bad enough that it won't even put 3 on a page?

I really wanted to play with some 95 TMK, but they apparently don't exist. Now I'm having second thoughts about even grabbing them to try.

A 1-8 twist usually prefers a heavier bullet so I guess 95gn bullets are just a bit too lightweight. A 95gn bullet shoots well usually with a 1-10 twist
just my tuppence worth