My bad I thought the entire range of amax had been superseded :slow:
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Speed of sound is about 1120 fps at sea level.
I shoot a 155gr Lapua Scenar with 44.5gr 2208 in Lapua Palma cases through a 32" 1:10 True-Flite barrel at 2840 fps.
The projectile's still supersonic at 1000 yards and registers on electronic targets.
I've also shot a 80gr Amax projectiles from a Savage 223 that still are supersonic at 1000 yards and register on e-targets.
From experience of our etgts at Trentham anything less then 1200fps is unreliable. So same load of 45.5gr of 2208 with nosslers the ones that registered had about 1170fps maybe 2 out of 5 or 6 (sat there did that) 45gr behind a Nossler will not register at all. Generally HBC and the Lapua seem very comparable in terms of BC showing 100fps more than nosslers from what I can see, 45.5gr of 2208 for them seems 100% reliable, this is probably gun dependant, the last barrel it had wouldnt register at all at 1000yds we had to bin it.
@Shahin
If you want some HBC 155gn to play with - I've got a few spare (15-20) that I can let you have.
You cover post - PM me with addy mate.
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Hi @Shahin. If your still after 168amax still stock them at BLACK WATCH RELOADING - Black Watch Reloading
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Attachment 69661Attachment 69662Attachment 69663 Here's how she's started out since my last post! Ran out of gun safe room so bought a rack and installed her whilst been starting to load 168 amax with 45gn of 2208 federal large primers and winchester brass. OAL 2.82. Have the same recipe in 5 rounds of each with different powder variation (+/- .5-1gn) Will be taking these to the test in the next couple of sundays :thumbsup:
Excuse the deer skin :omg: couldn't incorporate it in the other photos ;)