Range Report 130gr RDF

[Hondo1]

I am wanting to try this bullet in my short barrel 6.5 Creedmoor, now that they have been out a while I was hoping some of you could chime in with some real world experience. Is the published B.C. Correct? What are you velocities?
What kind of seating depths have worked for you?
Thanks in advance.

 

[308Gunner]

I shot some in my 6.5SLR I had been loading H4350 and after shooting 100 of the 130's I was about to give up on them as the best group I could get was 3/4 MOA. Then I got to reading Lowlights review of the 121's and thought I would try some Varget, I loaded up 10 from starting at 38gr and ended up at 39.3 this load is well under 1/2 MOA and is running 2920 out of a 22" Broughton . I used Peterson SRP 260 brass and CCI primers I also shoot suppressed but I have taken them out to 1345 and the BC's are right on the money. Don't give up on them if H4350 does'nt work try Varget and they will kill hogs DRT

 

[bfglowkey]

All of the Nosler RDF line seem to enjoy a 0.03 jump or more ( I ran mine mag length and groups were 0.5-0.62 moa with RL 16, Hornady brass and S&B primers)

 

[47guy]

i shot several of these in my 47 and they never shot well from jammed to .070 off.

 

[KWilson]

i shot several of these in my 47 and they never shot well from jammed to .070 off.

Some people have had some success at .090...funny bullet, they look great but they're not in the same league as Bergers.

 

[47guy]

Some people have had some success at .090...funny bullet, they look great but they're not in the same league as Bergers.

i know a lotta ppl love the RDFs but i could never get them to shoot including the 140s and i agree they are great looking bullets and actually pretty consistent but they just dont work for me.

i looked back at the last couple of years at my match scores because ive had a bad year...im not sure if its just coincidence but looking back everytime i stray away from the bergers my scores drop off...i started shooting 123g lapuas after the first couple of matches this year(they are fantastic bullets and shoot very well)because bergers where unicorns so i decided i was going to stop shoot bergers because of availability.

well after looking back at scores i bought 6k berger hybrids and will be tracking my scores very closely the rest of this and next season to see if its just me or or a combination of me and bullet selection...

 

[308Gunner]

I have a friend that shoots a 47 and he could not get them to work , he loads Varget and he did not try any different powder. These RDF's are finicky with so if 1 powder won't work and you wnat to shoot them try a different powder as I stated above H4350 sucked with them until I switched to Varget. The 140's that I tried worked fine with the 4350 but the 130 did not.

 

[47guy]

i tried h4350 IMR4451 varget and RL-17 with both FED205Ms and CCI450s...believe me i tried to get them to shoot as i ordered 2000 of them thinking id get them to shoot.

 

[MarinePMI]

I shot some in my 6.5SLR I had been loading H4350 and after shooting 100 of the 130's I was about to give up on them as the best group I could get was 3/4 MOA. Then I got to reading Lowlights review of the 121's and thought I would try some Varget, I loaded up 10 from starting at 38gr and ended up at 39.3 this load is well under 1/2 MOA and is running 2920 out of a 22" Broughton . I used Peterson SRP 260 brass and CCI primers I also shoot suppressed but I have taken them out to 1345 and the BC's are right on the money. Don't give up on them if H4350 does'nt work try Varget and they will kill hogs DRT

Hmmm...makes me wonder if XBR-8208 might be a winner as well...

 

[308Gunner]

It might I just tried Varget because I had 1 or 48 pounds on hand?

 

[308Gunner]

i tried h4350 IMR4451 varget and RL-17 with both FED205Ms and CCI450s...believe me i tried to get them to shoot as i ordered 2000 of them thinking id get them to shoot.

Man I don’t know what to tell it looks like you tried, did you end up selling them

 

[killer-e]

I shot them out of my 47 with 37.3 grs of varget at 2759 FPS any thing faster it would shoot like shit.

 

[47guy]

Man I don’t know what to tell it looks like you tried, did you end up selling them

Yes a member here bought them...I had the same problem with the Hornady 140g BTHPs...I shot 800 of those in 2-3 different barrels a couple years ago and never had a group under about an inch

 

[308Gunner]

Damn talk about bad luck, I shooter the 140’s because I could not find the ELD when I needed bullets 43.5gr of H4350 and it shoots in the .3’s that was without running seating depth