Badlands Precision Bullets anyone try them?

[Wapiti1]

High Ballistic Copper Bullet Manufacturer

At Badlands Precision, LLC, we are specialists in manufacturing lathe-turned, high ballistic coefficient copper bullets. First of all, we have a very simple line up, solids, which we call ICBMs, and expanding hollow point bullets tipped with an aluminum tip we call Bulldozers. Contact us anytime

badlandsprecision.com

Came across them the other day and liked the design of the Bulldozer with the aluminum tips. Anyone try these out or have any info on them?

Thinking I'll order some .308 196gr (.300 Win mag) and .338 240gr (340 Weatherby and 338 RUM) to try out.

Jeremy

 

[MThuntr]

I don't see much on them. I was considering these before I shot Hammer bullets and those were so easy to shoot well I neglected to consider others

I heard they were doing a bullet redesign on their Facebook Page like 3 months ago and kind of forgot to check if that ever happened. Please update us on the your progress with these as I'd consider the 196s in my 300WinMag

 

[Gear-Reviewer]

I was curious how the re-design was going as well. I’m curious about how the 7mm 145’s with a bc over 600 shoot.

 

[tdot]

I asked about the Terminal performance on these bullets about a year ago on LRH. Not alot of feedback, what I did receive was excellent. But it wasnt enough to sway me from the Hammers and I'm not shooting far enough for the improved BC numbers to come into play.

 

[FHT_365]

I only have experience with the 125 bulldozers shooting out of my 260. They shoot pretty well and I’ve shot targets up to 1k and no complaints. My previous load was with the Berger 140 vld. I was really hoping a company made something close to that in copper. Badlands customer service is pretty good. I had some questions and messaged them on Facebook. The response was fast and very helpful. Give them a try and see if you like them. I hope they work out for you

 

[VernAK]

My experience on CS wasn't that good as I got no response to email or phone. I did get some 270 bullets but initial trials didn't excite me. I someone wants em......pay the shipping.

 

[Wapiti1]

I ordered the 196gr .308 to try out. We'll see.

Jeremy

 

[Gear-Reviewer]

Ordered the 7mm 145’s today. Nice people...

 

[Wapiti1]

The 196gr .308 bullets arrived today. They are very nicely made. Just a touch longer than a Barnes 200gr LRX, but much prettier. Shipped fast, packaged well, and they answered my couple of questions in reasonable time.

If these shoot (pretty sure they will), they will either go to MT or Alaska this fall.

Jeremy

 

[choovhntr]

The 196gr .308 bullets arrived today. They are very nicely made. Just a touch longer than a Barnes 200gr LRX, but much prettier. Shipped fast, packaged well, and they answered my couple of questions in reasonable time.

If these shoot (pretty sure they will), they will either go to MT or Alaska this fall.

Jeremy

I see those are pretty long. What is your mag length and will you need to jump them a lot to make them fit in the mag? These look pretty interesting .

 

[Wapiti1]

The magazine on my Ruger is 3.65", and it has a SAAMI standard chamber. The recommendation is to start at 0.025" off the lands. I'll start there and see.

Jeremy

 

[choovhntr]

Ok thank you. That’s super helpful.

 

[codyadams]

I put this thread together over on LRH starting about a year ago, as far as I have seen this is about the best compilation of data for these bullets in relation to field testing for loading, bc confirmation and terminal performance.

Badlands Precision Bullets thread - From BC to terminal ballistics

There seems to have been rising interest in these bullets, but information is spread out and somewhat limited, so hopefully this thread will help consolidate information. I would like to keep this thread somewhat organized, accurate, and to the point. If you have first hand experience please...

www.longrangehunting.com

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

High Ballistic Copper Bullet Manufacturer

At Badlands Precision, LLC, we are specialists in manufacturing lathe-turned, high ballistic coefficient copper bullets. First of all, we have a very simple line up, solids, which we call ICBMs, and expanding hollow point bullets tipped with an aluminum tip we call Bulldozers. Contact us anytime

badlandsprecision.com

Came across them the other day and liked the design of the Bulldozer with the aluminum tips. Anyone try these out or have any info on them?

Thinking I'll order some .308 196gr (.300 Win mag) and .338 240gr (340 Weatherby and 338 RUM) to try out.

Jeremy

I've been toying with the 205 and 125 BD2
Both are super accurate in my rifles and they seem to like about .050 jump.
I've shot the 205s to 1200 yards and the BC is dead on, thats from an 8 twist going 3025
I recovered a few from saturated clay at 1000 yards and expansion is impressive.

Attached is a pic of a 205 recovered at 1000 yards, and one at 200
Oal is 3.7 in my 30 Nos
Hope this helps

 

[willfrye027]

I shoot the 110gr SBD2 in my 25-06. 3230 fps with low enough recoil to easily spot impacts. BC has been accurate on out to 850yards so far. Have not tested farther. Accurate bullets for me. Killed a pig and it was devastating..but impact velocity was around 3100 so it needs a better long range on game performance test. I’m shooting these over blackjacks for the time being with the only disadvantage being cost.

 

[codyadams]

I've been toying with the 205 and 125 BD2
Both are super accurate in my rifles and they seem to like about .050 jump.
I've shot the 205s to 1200 yards and the BC is dead on, thats from an 8 twist going 3025
I recovered a few from saturated clay at 1000 yards and expansion is impressive.

Attached is a pic of a 205 recovered at 1000 yards, and one at 200
Oal is 3.7 in my 30 Nos
Hope this helps
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.050" is where the .338 250 SBDII shot best in my .338 Norma mag as well. The standard first gen 270 SBD shot best at .060" off. Have also shot the. 277 128 as well as the .277 140, from what I have seen, they like at least .030" jump, but not much more than .120" or so. Have taken several pronghorn, a few deer, and a bull elk with them ranging from 180 yards to 883 yards. Excited to see how these 250 SBDII's perform this year on a few pronghorn, deer, elk and hopefully a mountain goat.

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

.050" is where the .338 250 SBDII shot best in my .338 Norma mag as well. The standard first gen 270 SBD shot best at .060" off. Have also shot the. 277 128 as well as the .277 140, from what I have seen, they like at least .030" jump, but not much more than .120" or so. Have taken several pronghorn, a few deer, and a bull elk with them ranging from 180 yards to 883 yards. Excited to see how these 250 SBDII's perform this year on a few pronghorn, deer, elk and hopefully a mountain goat.

Right on
We'll be using the 125 BD2 in the wife's rifle for deer and elk this season.
I'd like to use the 205 in my 30 Nos if I draw a tag in some open country.
Might use it for deer just to see how it performs

 

[codyadams]

Shot the 250 SBDII from my .338 Norma yesterday. Used labradar during my shooting, velocity average was 2877 fps, 11 fps spread in 4 rounds. At 970 yards, all rounds were exactly the come ups my applied ballistics app told me using Badlands advertised .410 G7, dialed using my March 2.5-25x52. Another one that checks out. Would still like to go out farther, but out to nearly a thousand, right on for me. 9 twist 24" Lilja btw.

 

[Jmort1754]

Anyone shoot the 205s in a 300 prc?

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

Anyone shoot the 205s in a 300 prc?

I shot them in a custom throated 30 Nosler so pretty much the same thing
What do you want to know?