elkhunter505
WKR
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2018
Hey everyone,
I’m newish to the reloading game and have done a couple of loads in the past for my 7 mag when I still shot it. Last year I bought a Christensen Mesa FFT in 6.5 PRC prior to seeing the .243 and 6mm efficacy and got super lucky that it was not a dud from what it sounds like. Either way the gun shoots factory Hornady outfitter (130 cx) lights out, but I am considering building a load using very light copper bullets (80-100 gr HHT) to potentially lower the recoil a bit and have higher velocity for most of my hunting shots. I toyed around with the idea of getting a .243 but my current funds are just not going to allow that any time soon. I want to stay in the copper ammo realm just due to personal preference, so my question is does anyone have a similar load that they have worked up and saw good terminal performance on game? The 130 CX has killed just fine but I’m just kind of curious given I could get a 80 gr HHT to shoot close to 3500 and it would be an absolute laser to 500 yards which I have no plans on shooting past. Thanks for any info!
I’m newish to the reloading game and have done a couple of loads in the past for my 7 mag when I still shot it. Last year I bought a Christensen Mesa FFT in 6.5 PRC prior to seeing the .243 and 6mm efficacy and got super lucky that it was not a dud from what it sounds like. Either way the gun shoots factory Hornady outfitter (130 cx) lights out, but I am considering building a load using very light copper bullets (80-100 gr HHT) to potentially lower the recoil a bit and have higher velocity for most of my hunting shots. I toyed around with the idea of getting a .243 but my current funds are just not going to allow that any time soon. I want to stay in the copper ammo realm just due to personal preference, so my question is does anyone have a similar load that they have worked up and saw good terminal performance on game? The 130 CX has killed just fine but I’m just kind of curious given I could get a 80 gr HHT to shoot close to 3500 and it would be an absolute laser to 500 yards which I have no plans on shooting past. Thanks for any info!
