Testing the Hornady 75gr and 87gr V-Max bullets through the 6ARC to see what type of expansion they have at 6 ARC speeds and if one out performs the other in ballistic gel. #reloading #huntingrifle #coyotehunting
I loaded some 75s with 31.0gr of TAC. I need to check velocity, but it's got to be screaming. Very light ejector smear, bugholing. Turn a pigeon into confetti
Just did my first testing. 75gr v-max at 3083fps, 85g nosler partition at 2852fps, 107smk at 2640fps. Light primer flattening, no other pressure signs. Starline brass will be in tomorrow, i will really be able to get some work done.
Behind my house where I hunt the wooded river bottom is so thick all my shots on coyotes or deer are between 40 and 80 yards just because you can't see any farther than that.
Hey, any belting problems with your brass like johnnies reloading bench had? I bought some virgin starline, sized it, fired it. I am currently sizing it and getting it ready for its 2nd loading/firing and I am starting to get belting. Ballistic advantage barrel, Hornady dies. Even have the dies raised up a little to get a 0.004 shoulder bump. I am really not liking the way this is shaping up.
On my Hornady brass I didn't see any belting but I only got to the 3rd firing on half of it and the primer pockets were getting loose. On my starline brass I haven't got through the first firing on all 400 cases yet, been working on my 223 Ackley lately. I need to get back to this rifle , I have some varmint grenades to test.
Well now you got me re-thinking everything. Probably over thinking too. So I bought 75g for my 6mm arc hoping to do my first testing next week. I really liked the extra 250-300fps vs the 87s, just felt like too much velocity lost for not enough weight gain, about 16% for an 11% reduction in velocity. Watching your video though, The extra penetration of the 87g looks really good, bullet held together better. However at the same time, that testing was done at 75yds. I wonder what the bullets would look like at say 200, 300, or 400yds, once they have lost some velocity. My guess is expansion would be reduced and penetration increased. the 87g might do poorly and the 75g might act like the 87g did at 75yds. I will say, I am not a huge fan of the jump of the 75g. In my rifle its like 0.126 to the lands. The 75g also has less drop and retains more velocity than the 87 out to 500yds, which is a win IMHO. I don't know, now I got a lot of thinking to do. I may have to dig my gel block out and load up some reduced loads to simulate a 300yds shot and put one in the block just to see what happens.
How is it possible that your load on the 75 g bullet had over 3000 ft./s and the 87 grainers are only going 2750 my 87 grain load is going to 2960 from an 18 inch barrel kills coyotes on their tracks
@@Pew_pewchronicles lever revolution seems to be the best powder for 6mm arc with the exception of the light bullets. At the heavier loadings cfe223 meets or exceeds lever revolution velocities.
