7mm PRC | Barnes VOR-TX 160gr LRX TESTED! | Little Crow Gunworks 

Thank you Harry, I really appreciate the support!

That's fantastic. If you're inspired by watching our videos, we're doing something right.

Thanks James, I knew you fellow nerds would appreciate the deep dive.

Thank you for the positive feedback. Our handload did shoot better overall, without seating depth work, but this stuff still shoots really well.

Thanks Jack, I really like this combination as well.

Thanks for joining us! This should be over 3000fps for you if your barrel has a hundred rounds on it. Good luck with it. Thanks for watching.

My 7prc did NOT like it. 1.5” groups

@@woodywoodpecker3643 mine was more like 3-4" groups 😬 it shoots eldx's just under an inch at 100.

I have yet to find any rifle which likes it

Outfitter shot terrible in my 300 wsm as well. It’s a dud.

Hey Joe, yeah it sucks for sure. I have been unhappy with their poor supply for many years and started phasing them out probably 8 or 9 years ago. It's too bad.

@@LittleCrowGunworks Yeah, pretty much any organization absorbed by Vista Outdoors or Kinetic Group or whatever they're calling themselves this week is not interested in meeting demand for anything, almost like they're intentionally trying to sink the companies or at least prevent their growth. There's no way that the contracts are that good for all of the companies they've absorbed, to shut out the consumer market.

That is fantastic! Great job. That's what we want. Throw something together, get some data, and go break it in and LEARN something at long range. After that hundred rounds, scrub her down good. Bring 20 rounds of your 68 grains @ .020 jump and re-foul the barrel. Shoot groups of three until they stabilize and shoot consistent. Then when the barrel is stable you can ladder up and down with the powder @ .020 jump to see if you find anything better. If you don't and your original load shoots in the .3XXX's still and maybe speeds up a little, YOU'RE DONE, go practice. Every 2 to 300 rounds fired, check seating depth up and down 15 thou in .003 increments to see if your sweet spot moved. Shoot another 2 to 300 rounds, repeat until the barrel is toast. Get a new one and repeat the entire process. I'm happy for you man, great stuff!

I would agree with that statement based on my experience. Thanks for watching.

Thank you John. Even when the series "ends" I will still be adding things to it as new things come out or as we have new information/test results to share. It started as a 7mm comparison but will end up being a 7mm category that we add to over time.

@@LittleCrowGunworks sounds great Tim!

Right!?! I about fell off my stool. Apparently I'm in the right place for BOTH bullets! Yes, it is lame, but their availability has been so piss poor since before they even created RL16, RL23 & RL26 that I started phasing them out A LONG TIME ago. VihtaVuori, Hodgdon and IMR is what I use for all my "Serious" stuff. I play with other stuff, but just for close range Prairie Dog loads and fiddling around.

Yeah unfortunately it's not very common.

Thanks James!

Thanks for watching!

I appreciate that!

Hey guy, stop watching RU-vid videos! 😂 Oh wait... ours are ok to watch. Thanks Joe!

Glad you think so!

@@LittleCrowGunworks yes sir! I’ve enjoyed the 7mm series. I’ve shot a 7mag most of my life. I’m only 24 but it’s been a nice cartridge. It’s not my long range build but 100-400 yards it’s taken countless white tails.

I’m running those in my 7 prc 👌👌

Thank you for joining us! Yes, you are correct, it is for weight reduction. I am very familiar with competition shooting. Some guys like how the carbon fiber barrels look as well.

Very close to reloaded 26 velocity and ES. .560 groups

Thank you Mark!

They WERE uniform because they had a bullet in them and the nickel plated stuff typically has more neck tension than a brass only case. So I did NOT re-size the neck, but I did chamfer and debur the necks, because NONE of the factory ammo manufacturers do that.

I'm going to concur with ccfdmd! I think Little Crow needs to re due the whole series with the Barnes 160 LRX

Knock it off Austin, LOL. If someone wants to volunteer to fund it, we can.

I also forgot to mention that if you listen to the backcountry hunting podcast, a few weeks ago they had a representative from Barnes on discussing this bullet. This episode has not made it to their RU-vid channel yet He discusses the overall design of the bullet and what it was designed to do, targeted at. This was specifically made for a 7 prc. They make a 168 lrx, but this new one has a much better ballistic coefficient

⁠@@LittleCrowGunworks I agree with Austin, my night drives are lacking in interesting new things to listen to and ReloadingWeatherby only produces 9 minute videos, typically…. 😂

Look at buds guns online, they have it or did yesterday. Good price too!

@@bunyon0341 nope, works excellent with no modifications.

@WCFD5045 I have not. I shoot both on the same day all the time without cleaning. No effect on precision.

@@LittleCrowGunworks ok thank you.

@@andywilson5049 Yes, but they are not out to distributors yet. You have to buy them on the Barnes website. It's a brand new bullet.

I know they do. We don't like using Target bullets on Elk. That doesn't mean you can't, but we don't promote it. You can watch our 7mm Showdown Series if you care to find out why.

@cabochris100 yes. Common expansion minimums for tipped mono bullets are widely considered to be 2000fps. This factory ammo drops below 2000fps near sea level at 800yds. At 10,000ft elevation, that distance is 1200yds. We dont encourage shooting at animals that far away, but this ammo/bullet combo is very capable.

@cabochris100 it can. I think in this case it is because they are running it so hot.