BCB
03-28-2014, 05:51 PM
Anyone here shooting this caliber—cast or jacketed?...
T/C Contender 23" Carbine...
I have been working with it using jacketed bullets almost exclusively, but I am looking for someone who might have challenged this cartridge with cast…
I have shot the 280642 (150 grains) and the 270-130-FN (~138 grains) with good success, BUT only out to 50 yards. The P.O.I. at 50 yards for these boolits is 4-5 inches low as compared to the Sierra 90 HP. I really don’t want to adjust the ‘scope back and forth between bullets and boolits. The reason can be seen with the 2 pics I posted. The bullet shot at the groundhog silhouette was the 90 HP with 30.0 grains of H-322—the distance was 250 yards. That is 3 hits in the black 2.5-inch circle…
(By the way, the Hornady 110 V-Max produces similar accuracy)
Regardless, anyone have any incite on the 6.8mm and cast? There is a 6.8mm website, but it is for the most part, a semi-weapon site…
I know this is a cast boolit forum and I don’t mean to interrupt that format. So if one feels a bit uncomfortable posting to this thread, I have a PM that I look at all of the time…
This is the most impressive cartridge I have shot in many many years—maybe in all time…
Thanks all...BCB
T/C Contender 23" Carbine...
I have been working with it using jacketed bullets almost exclusively, but I am looking for someone who might have challenged this cartridge with cast…
I have shot the 280642 (150 grains) and the 270-130-FN (~138 grains) with good success, BUT only out to 50 yards. The P.O.I. at 50 yards for these boolits is 4-5 inches low as compared to the Sierra 90 HP. I really don’t want to adjust the ‘scope back and forth between bullets and boolits. The reason can be seen with the 2 pics I posted. The bullet shot at the groundhog silhouette was the 90 HP with 30.0 grains of H-322—the distance was 250 yards. That is 3 hits in the black 2.5-inch circle…
(By the way, the Hornady 110 V-Max produces similar accuracy)
Regardless, anyone have any incite on the 6.8mm and cast? There is a 6.8mm website, but it is for the most part, a semi-weapon site…
I know this is a cast boolit forum and I don’t mean to interrupt that format. So if one feels a bit uncomfortable posting to this thread, I have a PM that I look at all of the time…
This is the most impressive cartridge I have shot in many many years—maybe in all time…
Thanks all...BCB