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Art Eatman · September 28, 2012, 07:35 AM

What I found, messing around with my 500-yard range:

26" barrel, handloads with Sierra bullets. 150-grain SPBT; 165-grain HPBT, and 180-grain SPBT.

I started out with my usual deal of 150-grain bullets, two inches high at 100 yards. I'd "guesstimated" in earlier shooting for a four-foot drop and hit right at dead center on the hanging steel plate.

I came up 32 clicks, eight inches, at 100 yards from the original two inches high. That put me close to center for all three loads--which was rather surprising.

September 28, 2012, 07:35 AM	#13
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	What I found, messing around with my 500-yard range: 26" barrel, handloads with Sierra bullets. 150-grain SPBT; 165-grain HPBT, and 180-grain SPBT. I started out with my usual deal of 150-grain bullets, two inches high at 100 yards. I'd "guesstimated" in earlier shooting for a four-foot drop and hit right at dead center on the hanging steel plate. I came up 32 clicks, eight inches, at 100 yards from the original two inches high. That put me close to center for all three loads--which was rather surprising.