burger. You catch a shoulder with a Berger and the quarter is usually a bloodshot mess. I don't shoot them at all at smaller deer because they wreck shit. Animals are dead but a guy really needs to stick em in the ribs. I stick to ballistic tips for antelope. The eld-m worked good? I shoot the 168 out of my 308 and its awesome on deer. But its going slow so no splash boom effect at 2675 fps.
Oh wow yeah that’s slow but I’m sure it’s fine. Mine are only going 2835. But accuracy is ridiculous. They did well though. Everything that was hit dropped immediately. Ranged were 100-250ish. The one thing I didn’t like is after impact it traveled through guts down to ham and destroyed all the guts. Shots were all lungs. They all did the same thing. Working on developing a load up for the 150 ABLR now.You can't shoot heavy bones with Berger. Or you get
pass thru with a silver dollar exit hole. We've beem shooting them out of 5 different rifles from 6 5 to 300 win mag and they have been awesome. Retain around 50-60% and leave a great wound channel in their wake. Soft under a 100 yds so don't shoot the shoulders unless you have to. On the bright side they're bonded so We've had pass through shoulder bones and blades on elk without issues.
Yeah agree they are finicky lot to lot I think. But nephew switched from the 143 ELDX to the 142s and they are very accurate and terminally I think they are hard to beat everything he got this last year all dropped and all pass through. From 150-370 yards for him. He has them going about 2880. Right now the 150s I have are averaging 2910 and accuracy is about 1/3 or less”. Hoping to do another confirmation test next week. I think I have them between .032-.038 Off and then there’s another sweet spot .058-.064 Off. trying longer first.ABLR can be finicky in some rifles. If you're handloading them, seat them ar standard magazine length. They like jump. And they shoot really well from 2850 to 3100 fps. If a guy pushes em hard to 3200 or higher they get fliers. My Browning X-bolt long range 7 mag loves the 168 ABLR. My son took his first elk last year with it. 616 yds. Perfect double lung
My rifles are just the opposite with the ABLR. I can’t tell you how many I wasted sending them down range only to get 2-3” groups out of a known sub-MOA rifles jumping them from .040-.120”. I was fireforming some 338 Norma to make improved cases and shot this group with them jammed in the lands.ABLR can be finicky in some rifles. If you're handloading them, seat them ar standard magazine length. They like jump. And they shoot really well from 2850 to 3100 fps. If a guy pushes em hard to 3200 or higher they get fliers. My Browning X-bolt long range 7 mag loves the 168 ABLR. My son took his first elk last year with it. 616 yds. Perfect double lung
Same 175s out of 7wsm. Shot uphill 503 yards at a bull, lower entry, higher exit and it punched a hole in the offside you could fit a coke can through, he was down by the time I had another round loaded. Shot a white tail a couple years ago at 120ish yards, no exit, went about 20 yards. Have two does that fell over on the spot with large exit wounds.
