Day at the Range 110gr PPU vs 123gr ELD-M
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Day at the Range 110gr PPU vs 123gr ELD-M
NRA Basic, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, RSO
CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
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110gr is good blasting ammo or for shooting steel within 300-400yds on medium sized targets.
I recant this statement after several range trips and courses now shooting it at distance.
It shoots really flat and fast and is easy to hit things with at much longer ranges than I expected.
Everything ran fine through several different types of magazines.
We did a bunch of initial zero-conformation at 50 and 75yds.
One thing I wanted to test was the newer ASC 25rd mags, which ran great for me as well.
In the pics you can see the Amend2 polymer mags. No issues with them to-date either.Last edited by LRRPF52; 07-30-2023, 03:48 PM.NRA Basic, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, RSO
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Looks like he is doing very well.shootersnotes.com
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PPU does seem to be the best option for factory plinking ammo at the moment. Wolf steel-cased is just a bit too inaccurate to be fun, and not cheap enough to offset that.
I hope PPU start selling their soft points again. The soft point projectile they use on their 123 grain Carcano load seems like it would be much better suited for Grendel than Carcano, where it tends to feed poorly.My grandpa's WWII Bomber Pilot memoir:
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Last edited by LRRPF52; 07-28-2023, 08:52 PM.NRA Basic, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, RSO
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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NRA Basic, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, RSO
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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Originally posted by LRRPF52 View Post
I would imagine you would hit a buffalo size silhouette at 700 yards with the 110 PPU stuff. Although not gigantic, the ones I have shot were pretty big. I would say average size of a grown buffalo.
Sounds like you have some pretty reliable ball ammo there. I still have four or five hundred rounds of the original PPU MPT and it shoots OK.
LR-55
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Originally posted by LR1955 View PostLRRP52:
I would imagine you would hit a buffalo size silhouette at 700 yards with the 110 PPU stuff. Although not gigantic, the ones I have shot were pretty big. I would say average size of a grown buffalo.
Sounds like you have some pretty reliable ball ammo there. I still have four or five hundred rounds of the original PPU MPT and it shoots OK.
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I put some 110 PPU over chrono and got some wild results. It was over my old caldwell optical chrono so I suspect that velocity accuracy was being weird but I would get the occasional 2800+fps reading which made me stop shooting that ammo. I'll run it over the magnetospeed to see if i get the same weirdness as I have a box or 2 left over for dark days.
This is data I have from 22" barrel. Chrono was about 5 yards in front of barrel
Only reason I keep this stuff is because of how well it performs shooting through solid objects like car doorsLast edited by Zeneffect; 07-29-2023, 05:42 PM.
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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I bought a couple boxes of PPU 110 gr just to get some rounds through new 20" upper. Sent over chrono on 2 different days. Day one 58*F, AV 2803.6 ES 47, and AV 2746.2 ES 83, 2 ten shot strings beginning and end of day. Day 2 48*F, AV 2775 ES 28, and AV 2804 ES 23, again 2 ten shot strings beginning and end of day.
Didn't group that well, maybe 2 MOA, and that's all I had so no more testing and decided not to buy more.
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Originally posted by vaguru View PostI bought a couple boxes of PPU 110 gr just to get some rounds through new 20" upper. Sent over chrono on 2 different days. Day one 58*F, AV 2803.6 ES 47, and AV 2746.2 ES 83, 2 ten shot strings beginning and end of day. Day 2 48*F, AV 2775 ES 28, and AV 2804 ES 23, again 2 ten shot strings beginning and end of day.
Didn't group that well, maybe 2 MOA, and that's all I had so no more testing and decided not to buy more.NRA Basic, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, RSO
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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