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Lil-Rokslider
I've shot barnes for many years now, without much problem, other than none of my rifles particularly like them. Every now and then I'll grab a random box of some other copper and shoot it. Recently I tried the Hornady CX in 223 and it shot wayyy better out of one of my AR's (went from 1.5 MOA to sub MOA) and it got me thinking.
Generally speaking, I do often hunt at the edge ranges of the minimum opening velocity (MOV) for these rounds (the one downside to copper that I care about). One thing about barnes is I know these minimum velocities well for all my different calibers (.458 SOCOM, 300 Blackout, 223, 30-06, 308, etc). I also have taken 20ish animals with them without issue. The only time I've had a round perform badly was when I shot a bear with Hornady ELD-X and a Caribou with Core Lokt (nothing against these rounds, very small anecdotal sample size).
I'm looking at buying a box of all the different copper projectiles I can find in factory loads (I don't reload) and testing for accuracy but its much harder to test the efficacy. Looking for any experiences with rounds other than Barnes from people.
Some ones I've been looking at:
Generally speaking, I do often hunt at the edge ranges of the minimum opening velocity (MOV) for these rounds (the one downside to copper that I care about). One thing about barnes is I know these minimum velocities well for all my different calibers (.458 SOCOM, 300 Blackout, 223, 30-06, 308, etc). I also have taken 20ish animals with them without issue. The only time I've had a round perform badly was when I shot a bear with Hornady ELD-X and a Caribou with Core Lokt (nothing against these rounds, very small anecdotal sample size).
I'm looking at buying a box of all the different copper projectiles I can find in factory loads (I don't reload) and testing for accuracy but its much harder to test the efficacy. Looking for any experiences with rounds other than Barnes from people.
Some ones I've been looking at:
- Hornady CX - Their superformance line shoots very accurate from my 223 with a 30-50 fps boost over my barnes bullets. They have a slightly higher MOV
- Lehigh Defense Controlled Chaos - Supposed to be a 1500 fps MOV which is amazing, but tends to shoot much slower out of my 223 with limited testing I've done. Photos of these rounds appear impressive out of gel but I'm concerned with animal performance.
- Nosler E-Tips
- Federal Trophy Copper
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