Testing the new Berger Hunter Classic Bullets

[Justin Crossley]

Good to hear 30338!

I'm shooting them at 3165 right now. I'll report back when I put a couple more through some animals.

 

[30338]

I don't know what elevation you are hunting at, but a lot of my stuff gets done up around 10,000 and sometimes a little higher. That bc, at that velocity is not going to take a lot of clicking. Heck at my velocity it doesn't take too much clicking.

 

[30338]

The 168 Hybrids are shooting good in two rigs for me. The 25 yr old Ruger 77 in 7mm Remington is sighted in for 1.5" high at 100. At 9000 feet elevation, I just had 3 go into 2.5" and exactly 6.5" low. That at 2886 fps. 69.5 grains of H1000 on that one.

My other rig is also a 7mm Remington with an 8.5 twist Rock barrel. It put 2 different groups under 2" at 300 yards today with 71.5 grains of H1000 and right at 3000 fps. Hoping to test them out on antelope and elk in the upcoming weeks. The hybrids do seem to be less seating depth sensitive to me.

 

[jarheadhunter]

I have been shooting the 185 gr Classics in my 300 win mag. Very impressed so far. I just loaded them to mag length in my Savage 110 FCP and they like to be pushed hard. I am using a max load according to Berger of 79.5gr of H1000. Chrono was avg of 3000 fps.


Here is my 5 shot group at 100 yds. I think it's a little better then it looks. I was using particle board as my target stand and the particle board would just explode making the group look bigger then it is.

 

[Shrek]

168 berger classics out of my 7mm wsm at 225 yards. Getting there.

 

[Shrek]

Finished dialing my 7mm wsm in today. Forgot to snap a picture as I was in huge hurry trying to get ready to leave but the last four went into 7/8" @ 225 yards. Hope to see what these 168gr Berger Classics will do to an elk in a week. Ended up at 69.0 gr Retumbo , wlrm primers , 2.331 to the ogive. First lot of Retumbo finished at 69.7 gr. That to me is a big difference lot to lot imo. Going to buy 16 lbs of the same lot and build another load so I don't have to rework the load all the time.

 

[Sam Millard]

16 pounds@ 69.0 grains= 1623 rounds...I like how you think!

Good luck when you come out here!

 

[Shrek]

Thanks Sam , I will leave today but only get a couple hours down the road to my Mom's house tonight. I start driving for real Sunday. I hope to be in your neck of the woods by Tuesday . 16lbs should be more than enough to burn out a 7mm wsm. I'm looking really hard at maybe a 7mm-300 wsm which would probably go the whole 16lbs before being a tomato stake.