finely scored on some of them .139gr .284 i was begin to think they would never come out
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finely scored on some of them .139gr .284 i was begin to think they would never come out
Interesting to see how they perform on game, I'm picking no real difference.
tried them with the same loading that i used with the GMX . they fly the same .
@misserQuote:
Originally Posted by misser
I’m assuming you’re in Michigan… this is probably a longshot but is there any way that you can demonstrate the expansion on these new Hornady bullets? Maybe shoot some milk jugs full of water? I would be really keen to see how these bullets do a longer range. Say 400 to 500 yards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfAT...nel=gavintoobeQuote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
It’s just the GMX with the “heat shield tip” or a higher temp resistance polymer.
This was a .264 120gr GMX base of the neck 280m
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Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that's some serious timber.Quote:
Originally Posted by 300_BLK
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
Yeah great but questionable....stocked/safari type paid hunting?Quote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
Probably would have been better next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
No, was a cull stag.Quote:
Originally Posted by #the creeper
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by 300_BLK
OK, so it was killed to remove it from a farm?Quote:
Originally Posted by 300_BLK
I read that comment as sarcasm, cant imagine that being a cull stag personally looks like the crème of the crop for farmed/trophy stagsQuote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
Its a beautiful animal! 120gn at 2000fts at 280m.. Must be screamin
Base of the neck isn’t much of a test or merit to the bullet just shows good shot placement on your behalf
i did get the time to shot a set of different powders varget, rl15,imr4451, a2520, big game ,a4064,imr8208 and staball6.5 . some of the loading were max loads with a 2.755 COL its a rather long bullet for the 708 brass. staball6.5 and imr4451 takeup to much space to get a decent amount of powder into the brass. varget and imr8208 did get a well above 2900 fps 139gr .22'' barrel varget did give a less that 3/4 '' grouping
Shoot better than that everyday in the Ruahines…….👍Quote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
Thats pretty good speed for a copper bullet in a 7mm08.Quote:
Originally Posted by misser
the better grouping i found was a 5/8'' with a slightly reduced powder charge and a lesser COL . the plan now is to load up some more and then adjust the EC tuner
No, I wouldn’t agree with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by 300_BLK
From the testing done by fellas in the US, the GMX and CX are performing very differently. The CX looks like it is considerably softer than the GMX and will break up almost like a segmented copper bullet if impact velocity is high. The lower velocity expansion is remarkable.
From what I’ve seen so far I would say that the copper alloy metallurgy of the CX is completely different to the GMX.
The view on the GMX has historically been that it is too hard and double lung shots can frequently have bad outcomes. I don’t think we will be hearing that about the CX so much…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUTIy430UsA
Whilst I hear what the guys are saying about potentially driving this bullet too fast, the problem is a good one to have because here we seem to have a copper monolithic bullet that does not need to be driven at warp speed to deliver clean killing.
And here’s the GMX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1pmu5SaY0
