Look at 38-40gns of Varget with the 62 T/TSX. The 65gn Sierra Gameking would be another excellent choice. I run the 69gn Sierra TMK with 39.0gns of Varget and it has performed very well on yotes and whitetails. ~3500fps from 20" 9tw
The 80.5 usually leave an exit hole the size of a fifty cent piece on broadside yotes. I shot one yote at 104 steps facing straight to me, in the chest and it totally jelloed the thoracic cavity and did not exit. 69 TMK can be a little messier, especially on broadsides and leaves a big hole in bobcats (ie lots of stitching to fix a grapefruit hole). On whitetails, neither have exited and most have not taken more than 1 step unless the shot was marginal and not the bullets fault.
if you can duplicate this grouping, I'd say you were there and need to buy as much RL-26 and 88 ELDM's you can find
I just started doing load development on two 22CM both chambered at same time with same type of barrels, Bartlein 1-6.5. Shooting the 95gn SMK’s
LOL yeah sometimes I shoot the fouler at the steel gong for that purpose! But these groups I was at my father in laws ranch and had no reactive targets so I just fired at the paper HAHA. My smith and I both built rifles with bartlein barrels back to back. Mine 22 creed his 6xc. Neither of them would shoot worth a DARN. Reallllly frustrating. He swapped to a benchmark and I bought this Krieger and they are both hammers now.. we need to send the Bart’s back and see what’s up. I have a bart 223 on a trued rem and it shoots tiny tiny groups
I also have a 22 Creed on a Bighorn action. I started out before Alpha came to market with 22 Creed, so I necked down some of their 6mm Creedmoor brass. The resulting loads had a neck diameter of .256-.2565. Every once in a while I would get a flier. You guessed it, thicker brass. I bought two boxes of Hornady 22 Creedmoor brass, and inconsistent thickness also caused fliers. I now turn all of my necks to .015 thick. Just thought I would mention it for those using a PTG reamer, not much clearance.
Had so much trouble with mine that I took 300 new 6.5 CM cases and necked and turned them to 22 CM. Guess I just drew a bad batch.
I talked to them a couple of times. They were adamant that their primer pockets are correct. However, after having to prep the pockets, all 300, the cases were still getting stuck in my auto prime because the pockets weren’t deep enough. I was actually having to put so much pressure on the autoprime that I was damaging primers...getting no ignition and 3 half second hang fires. I’ve never had problems like that in 40 years of reloading. If was were one or two, no problem, but I had problems with probably 30 % of them . They did offer to replace them, and they sent me 10 or 20 new ones from the same batch, but I still had problems. That when I decided to neck down and turn 300 Gunwerks 6.5 CM cases...all with no problems.
Wow! Any problems with the 88s coming apart? Those are spinning at 327,805 rpm! Hornady says to keep them below 300k. Mine were blowing up at 2975 FPS in a 7 twist Krieger.
Using 37.9grs H1000 @2929 FPS out of a 7 twist 26 inch Krieger with excellent accuracy and s/d. Good velocity out to 1100 yards.
