Experience/feedback with Prvi ammo ? (.308 HPBT Match 168gr)

[DannyS99]

Hi folks,

I'm slowly compiling a shopping list for a new rifle and was wondering about ammunition options. This is the only match grade one I could find: Prvi, 308 hpbt 168gr. Price is $17.59/20 - quite cheap for match grade, but of course every mfg's definition of match grade differs from one another.

Specifically I'm wondering how it fares in the accuracy department and since I'll be reloading, how usable the brass is.

The rifle I'm getting is a Remington 700 SPS Tactical in 308 with a Leupold scope base. I'll borrow the rings, scope & bipod from my AR for the time being. Rifle will solely be used for bench shooting. My area (SE Florida) has great deficiencies when it comes to long distance ranges but a 500yd one is opening up in a few months and that is the furthest I'll be shooting with this rifle platform.

Thanks in advance

Danny

 

[h00ktern]

Privi Partizan has a good reputation for being reloadable. I have a thousand rounds of the 168gr, but haven't shot any of it yet - I have plenty of LC12 brass ahead of its use.

Ref the range, can you provide more info? We usually travel to Okeechobee Shooting range - best place to go as far as our area is concerned.

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[buffybuster]

In my experience the 168HPBT PPU Match ammo is at best about 1 moa ammo. Also the bullet is NOT an SMK clone, doesn't fly as flat. Not bad out to 600yds for banging steel. The brass is pretty decent and lasts quite awhile.

 

[buddy.223]

living in the uk ppu ammo is available everywhere and is just about the cheapest you can get, as are all the reloading components, id have to say its nowhere near match quality, ibought a couple of boxes of the ppu 168g match heads during the recent sierra drought and they were poor quite a difference in weight and finish, the brass is ok , though some of the primer pocket require a lot of reaming.- with batching the heads in lapua cases you could shoot m o a . id pay a bit extra the 700 I had loved the hornady tap 168

 

[aagifford]

I haven't shot it personally, but saw this: I was at a trainup where one shooter had Privi match ammo, 168 gn as you described. During the day it shot fine, maybe 3/4moa. At night it got really cold and he shot poorly. He couldn't get it to group better than 1.5moa. He was given some Federal to try out, and that shot fine, we also switched shooters with his gun and Privi ammo and determined that it was the Privi ammo. Whatever powder is in it is temp sensitive, and his rifle/ammo no longer was on a node due to the temp change.

 

[DannyS99]

Thanks for the advice everybody. I guess I'll use a box or two of it just to break in the barrel and see how much use I can get out of the brass. Hopefully market availability on other brands will be better by then.


H00ktern: they're opening a new range in homestead, right by the afb. Google "long shot range"




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