Beautiful bullet doesn't want to shoot. Help!

[Neverhome]

Had a chance to hit the range today. Decided ahead of time to load just a handful of these rounds but enough to test at 25 yards and 50. All previous testing was done at 50. I wanted to see what they'd do going faster, as suggested, but at both distances.

Here is the NOE 360225 launched at about 1250 ft/sec at 25 yards using a 1x red dot.




Here it is at 50. Nothing changed but the distance. Only 2 holes because the third went off paper.




This is screaming unstable to me and really seems to act not unlike a full wadcutter. This swc is virtually straight up and down at the nose. Almost no ogive to speak of.

Could that be what's happening? It's falling apart like a wadcutter at distance?

[Neverhome]

For the sake of argument, here is the Lee 358-200 at 50 yards with no load development.

[popper]

Larry is right, I fumbled the Miller. Your 50 yd looks like barely tilted holes but that could be the backer moving.

[Neverhome]

Larry is right, I fumbled the Miller. Your 50 yd looks like barely tilted holes but that could be the backer moving.

The pictures are terrible...
But up close they definitely show carbon on one sideof the hole on most of the rounds fired.
Wasn't a still day so the target could have been moving but at this point I'm inclined to believe that they are yawing as distance increases.

[oldblinddog]

Try Unique or Bullseye. I can’t recommend a load with that bullet, but a search of the site ought to provide you with a starting point with these two powders.

Try here: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...=1#post2586400