[hounddawg]

A few weeks back while scrounging around in my bullet drawer I ran across 3 boxes of 77SMK's that I had bought several years ago for my AR's. They shot great from my 1-8 twist Kreiger barreled AR but I had never tried them in my bolt .223. I loaded up 25 of them in Lapua cases with 21.5 to 23.5 of varget and then they sat on the shelf for several weeks until they caught my attention yesterday. To put it mildly I was shocked by their consistency and they will be my new match bullet of choice at 300 I think. Velocity averaged from 2604 FPS for 21.5 gn's up to 2802 for 23.5 gn's. Notice how the groups rise slightly with the velocity and also shift slightly from left to right with the barrel harmonics. Wind was blowing 5 mph from right to left intermittently and I tried to time my shots during the lulls

edit seating depth was 2.260 COAL