Thread: 75gr ELD-M Advice needed

Possibly…… whatever it’s doing tho, Given the precision of the other 3 hand loads I’ve tried in this rifle, leads me to believe this one isn’t worth messing with any further

Originally Posted by John P

Possibly…… whatever it’s doing tho, Given the precision of the other 3 hand loads I’ve tried in this rifle, leads me to believe this one isn’t worth messing with any further

The only reason I've persevered with them is the scenario modeling I've done in GRT shows the 75s are a sweet spot for extracting maximum energy from the 223 case . . . With LVR and 75s you can get over 1400 fpe from 20", 1300 fpe is about the limit with anything else as far as I can see.

74 Targex. 2206H 20" Shoot well in 3 rifles of mine. 2x 1:8 and 1x 1:9

RangeVelocityEnergy Trajectory
0 2970 1449.0 -1.5 0.0 0.0 0
25 2911 1393.0 -0.3 1.2 0.4 0
50 2854 1338.0 0.6 -1.1 -0.3 0
75 2797 1285.0 1.2 -1.5 -0.5 0
100 2741 1234.0 1.6 -1.5 -0.4 1
125 2685 1185.0 1.7 -1.3 -0.4 1
150 2630 1137.0 1.4 -0.9 -0.3 2
175 2576 1091.0 0.9 -0.5 -0.1 2
200 2523 1046.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3
225 2470 1003.0 -1.2 0.5 0.1 4
250 2418 961.0 -2.8 1.1 0.3 5
275 2366 920.0 -4.7 1.6 0.5 6
300 2315 881.0 -7.0 2.2

Fairly sure tikkas do well with both with a throat modification i recall a few people getting new ones done and they shot brilliant my one was rechambered to 22-204 and shot the 80s amazingly “couldn’t miss” sort of rifle on very small gongs out to 500 yards

The thoat modification I use is, I will revisit the 75s in another couple of thousand rounds.

Originally Posted by John P

73s on the other hand…….
Just picked a charge weight that put me somewhere in the 51-55k pressure range, seated 0.050, loaded up 10 rounds, and sent them.
Job done
Attachment 285356

There you go

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

So if stability itself was issue...would you not expect to see yawing??? If not actual keyholing in target???

Not necessarily. But it probably isn't stability so much as the barrel/chamber spec just doesn't work well with that bullet

Ok thanks...I have pondered using long heavy projectiles that is beyond my rifles ability to stabilise but due to using a suppressor I are not game as don't want yaw to baffle strike...and U suppressed is now just anti social to my ears .