hey guys Todd Helms here with eastmans hunting journals today out at the range
to show you why you need to be looking at the 300 PRC in the Hornady precision
hunter line of ammunition
the 300 PRC is a new 30 caliber rifle cartridge that
Hornady designed to allow hunters and shooters to kind of live in the same
world with one rifle cartridge what this thing does is it excels at target
shooting over one mile that's kind of its purpose that's its design at the
same time it's a rig that you can take out into the field and hunt with with
supreme confidence because it's got more than enough to get done what you need to
do in the field in a hunting scenario all with factory ammunition and we
actually have not had a chance to put this thing at all on paper but that's
okay because it's a beautiful morning and we're gonna get out and put some
shots on paper and put some shots on steel stretch it out to a thousand
that's as far as we have the capability today PRC stands for precision rifle
cartridge the 300 PRC is a non belted magnum cartridge and what getting rid of
that belt does is it allows you to headspace on the shoulder head spacing
on the shoulder creates tighter and more consistent chambering of rounds we've
seen this trend in several different rounds but 300 PRC head spaces on the
shoulder to give you the tightest possible chambering tolerances in a
hunting and target round and so what this thing is designed to do as Hornady
builds it is to turn long-range into mid range and we're gonna do just that here
in a little bit as we put this thing through its paces the 300 PRC is based
upon the 375 Ruger case it is as I've said non belted it has a 30 degree
shoulder all these things allow horn to need to put long heavy for caliber high
BC bullets into a standard magnum length case
and really what it does what these high BC heavy for caliber bullets do is they
maintain their velocity they maintain their trajectory and they resist wind
drift at extreme range and that's what the 300 PRC does we're talking ranges
out to a mile obviously we are not gonna take shots on animals at a mile but then
that's not the point with the 300 PRC the point is that you can practice
target shoot compete with the 300 PRC at those extreme distances and have a rifle
that you can grab factory ammunition off the shelf for and take it out and take
an elk at normal moderate hunting ranges the 300 PRC will do that all day long
this bullet is the eld x in the precision hunter it's leaving the muzzle
right about twenty eight hundred and sixty feet per second that's a little up
and down but hey the standard deviation for us on the chronograph has been
exceptional we haven't had anything that's been crazy off the charts it's
all been really tight tolerances right there which is what we expect quite
frankly from the precision hunter line of ammunition I got two in the same hole
and one maybe an eighth of an inch too low in a little bit right that's a three
shot group with I mean no cooling shots or anything like that in between and
they're basically that far apart so I am way sub MOA I was trying to get
them all three touching and I'm about as close as you can get without doing it
with a 30 caliber we're gonna shoot some steel and see how it does we're gonna
let this puppy cool down so stay with us
Wow first shot at a thousand yards crank the plate that is an MOA steel plate at
a thousand that's a ten inch plate pretty impressive so the rifle that I'm
shooting a 300 PRC and today is a horizon and this is the hunter Hz the
horizon rifles are out of College Station Texas there are several
manufacturers making the 300 PRC in a rifle horizon happens to be one there's
another offering it is the 225 grain eld m from Hornady offered in their match
line of ammunition not a hunting bullet I know some of you probably would try it
for hunting that's not its intent I'm sure it performs quite well but we are
going to stick for hunting purposes to the precision hunter line of ammunition
with the eld X bullet the eld M is going to offer a little bit higher BC and it's
designed for really reaching out and touching targets at long distance the
ideal system is to hunt with the precision hunter eld X bullets and to
target shoot with the eld m's that way you're covering both your bases and
you're getting the best of both worlds not that the the not that the precision
hunter with the eld X can't shoot targets it does very well at that but
it's designed as a hunting bullet to really handle those like I said turning
long-range into mid range so there's you break down of the 300 PRC in the Hornady
precision hunter with the eld X bullets when you get a chance to put some rounds
downrange with one of these do it I think you're going to be happy with your
results it is a phenomenal phenomenal round for both extreme long-range target
shooting in the PRC competitions here or a hunting round it'll bridge the gap
both and it's designed to do it with factory ammunition you don't have to be
a real oder to get incredible performance out of your target and
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