well how do you guys and gals welcome to the garage of the social regressive I'm
Kyle Broderick and today I'm doing some hand loading 46.5 Creedmoor you've been
seeing these loads a whole bunch these are using 140 grain Hornady BT HP match
projectiles these are really good and I've been able to demonstrate these not only
in kind of long-range target situations or even some of the closer ones but
we've also done some hunting with these as well and they worked out actually
even a little better than I imagined seems like these did a good job tumbling
great projectile a very high ballistic coefficient has a long boat tail on here
secant ogive and you know that hollow point there that's not so much for
expansion as it is just you know a part of the shape of the projectile itself but
yeah these things have worked very well at all kinds of distances we're going to
be taking these out to a mile I'm sure here in the near future and yeah just
overall great stuff especially since I'm using this right here reloader 16 powder
this is one that I've been raving about basically everything that I have hand
loaded I've been using this stuff it keeps your pressures nice and low
velocity is quite high and supposedly it's really good with not increasing
your velocities and pressures as temperatures change it's supposed to be
very consistent and so far in my own testing it seems to be bearing that out
I haven't done any of the scientific you know see how much the velocities
increase if I'm out on a hot day versus a cold day but you know since I have
actually been printing all over the place it just seems to be working anyway
but one of the other hand loads that have been putting together these are
spear hot core projectiles right here also 140 grain same powder and you can
see these right here they're not going to be quite as slick through the air
they have a flat base on the bottom and they have an exposed lead spire point
but these are going to be good for a terminal effects and this right here is
actually a subsonic we were able to test these out a little bit ago and it's just
kind of fun to launch subsonics but one of the the things that I want to do is
come up with I wanted a projectile that would kind of
split the difference between some of these match projectiles are not really
designed for hunting or for those terminal effects they're gonna do a
pretty decent job anyway as you know I was able to test for myself the hot core
projectiles these aren't quite as slick through the air but they should have
good terminal performance and there is you know kind of one thing missing about
these these are good and inexpensive great projectiles they seem to be very
precise in my own testing but you can see here that one of the the terminal
tests that I did where I was firing at water jugs the core separated and left
the jacket behind so check this out this is a brand new projectile from spear you've
probably heard of the handgun Gold Dot projectiles they're kind of the standard for
handguns they are hollow points they they have very good expansion they tend
to do very well and some of the gel tests where you have denim in place or
you know even with hard barriers and things they just seem to perform really
well in all situations and what spear is done is they've come up with gold dot
rifle projectiles so what these are these are just kind of a let exposed tip these
are you know just kind of your soft point projectiles like you would get with a
lot of hunting projectiles and then you have a rebated boat tail back here it's not
your traditional boat tail supposedly these rebated boat tails do quite well
you might remember some of the cheytac projectiles from you know some of the the
videos of years past or whatever and I think they're still making a bunch like
this yeah it comes up with a very slick ballistic coefficient for a hunting or
defense style projectile this right here has a ballistic coefficient if I'm
remembering correctly of 0.57 one so that's it's quite high you know not as
high as something that you're gonna get like with your match projectiles I think
this is somewhere up past point six and growing every day since the the Hornet
II ballistic coefficient numbers just seemed to grow every year but yeah this
is still a very slick projectile and it should have dramatic terminal
performance not only does this have this exposed lead tip but it's actually
bonded to the jacket I don't know exactly how it's done
Speier talks about how it's actually like a atomically bonded the the lead to
the jacket so this should mushroom out really neatly and keep a lot of retained
weight and that's what a lot of hunters are gonna go for and I could see how
some of the defensive users would also prefer this as well
come take a close look here I have some stats on the the gold dot projectiles so far
I've only been able to test out six five Creedmoor in four you know most of the
testing that I do for accuracy and for speed and all that I do have some others
that I'm working up I've had some difficulty with powder so I'm gonna try
a new powder but yeah these are spear gold uh for 308 these are 30 caliber
right here 150 grain and some 168 as well and once I get these tuned up I'll
release a video on those for now we're just going to take a look at 6'5
Creedmoor and see what kind of precision that we get because it's actually really
high this target was shot with the CMM G mark 3 DTR to the rifle that I did a
Multi multi part series on just a wonderful rifle make sure you go check
out that whole playlist I'll link to it around here somewhere
this is using reloader 16 CCI benchrest primers federal champion brass and you
can see that that Sider group that I did is amazing this is using the optimal
charge weight method this is not a ladder load this is a little bit
different and I'll put a link down in the description to the optimal charge
weight method so you can see if it's something that you want to try it's
worked out very well for me in the past ciders right here Group one 0.42 inches
yeah so I was a very happy guy when I saw this all of these were shot off a
machine rest it's a champion premium rest and I'll
put a link to that product down in the description as well I quite like it it's
it's a good less expensive option and it's also pretty precise especially if
you tuned it up a little bit like I show you group to 0.62 inches group three one
point six three and then settling back in for group four point four three
inches this is the one that I ended up going with it's moving out a little bit
faster and you can see that it is also quite tight here's
the next page group 5 is opening up quite a bit
group 6 as well point 8 inches and then point 9 on group 7 so I decided to go
with that group 4 I was really happy with that one so let's see what kind of
trajectory that we can get assuming that we know the velocity which turned out I
was getting this actually over a coronagraph when I tested it and it came
out to be 2939 feet per second which is wonderful a 140 grain projectile moving out
that fast is a very very good thing and also
without any kind of weird pressure spikes or anything like that so yeah
I've been very happy with how this worked out so here's my trajectory this
is all using -- calculator comm and we're gonna take a look at the
trajectory right here with my Hornady match projectiles right here these guys were
going subsonic at about 1550 yards and those are only moving out at about 26 50
feet per second somewhere in there so if we have enough velocity on these even
though they have a slightly lower ballistic coefficient we might still be
able to get really long distance out of them let's find out so we are definitely
still supersonic out past 650 here and yeah actually we hit the sound barrier
at my particular altitude at about 1500 yards so we're only 50 yards off those
match projectiles these I think we'll still be able to hit that mile with no problem
especially since these are a little bit of a shorter projectile they should have a
better stability overall and they should have well we'll see but these might have
a better time going through that transonic barrier than even the Hornady
match and they just seem to cruise through it like it wasn't even there
since this is a new projectile you might be wondering how I got my reloading data
this is the spear the newest manual number 15 and this includes a bunch of
the newer spear projectiles including those gold dots this is actually just a
wonderful read it's a really fun manual it has all kinds of great information
about various cases the method to hand load in general it has
stories from the author this is just a really fun read it's a neat book but
yeah back here we start to get into spear projectiles and how they work in 6.5
Creedmoor this has all kinds of data about the case itself it has technical
notes and yeah back here we start getting into the projectiles themselves so
here's the hot core that we've tested before and a bunch of recipes and then
you have the gold dot rifle projectiles right here and here's the reload of 16
that we've been testing out so this puts us you know this shows us kind of a
general start load and I did tweak things a bit using quick loads since I
knew the exact case capacity I was dealing with since you know these can
actually vary a little bit and you can you end up with different powder charges
so yeah this this is where I started from and with quick load I was able to
kind of tune it in a little bit after seeing these paper targets the
velocities and the resulting ballistics I'm really excited about these projectiles
these are going to be very handy for a bunch of different situations if you
want a good defensive projectile I think this will be a great choice it's going
to be extremely accurate at many many distances and it's also going to have
the great terminal performance that you're after if you are a hunter this is
going to be a great deer round this is going to be an excellent hog round and
you know basically since we consider deer we want to be able to have a
thousand foot-pounds of energy on a whitetail that's generally considered
you know kind of the limit you don't want to go below that this is still
going to provide that much energy even out to eight hundred yards there are a
lot of people that poopoo that kind of hunting they don't want to see
long-range hunting but hey I got no problems with it I think it sounds like
a lot of fun and for a hog hunting especially I think this is going to be
quite good this is going to deliver a really good terminal performance at a
wide variety of distances and then if I do need to hit maybe a smaller lighter
animal at you know even further distances this is going to get the job
done I think that you guys should take a look yes these are going to be a good
bit more expensive than your hot course or the you know the Hornet II match
projectiles both of these are designed to be very
economical this one is going to cost probably a good bit more but it's also
going to be one that I think is going to perform very reliably for you thanks for
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