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100 gr Nosler HPBT Custom Competition-has anyone been able to make this bullet shoot? - lazyengineer - 12-30-2021
I swear, I have tried 3 lots now of this bullet, in 3 different Grendel's, and at least 2 if not more 6.5 Creedmoor barrels. I can NOT make this bullet shoot, no matter what I do. Everything from minimum load, to maximum load, with a spectrum of slow and fast powders. And it will not group. I want to love this bullet, as it is very cost effective, and has a great BC. Has anyone else found the homerun load with these things?
100 gr Nosler HPBT Custom Competition-has anyone been able to make this bullet shoot? - Dt219 - 12-30-2021
No but like you I tried to make it shoot. 3-4 groups. I was aiming at one target and hitting another target. Knew right then no powder or seating depth could fix that
100 gr Nosler HPBT Custom Competition-has anyone been able to make this bullet shoot? - shooter545 - 12-30-2021
I am in the same boat. Bought a pile of them and just cant make them shoot. We shot up. The last of what I had loaded yesterday just to get the brass back.
100 gr Nosler HPBT Custom Competition-has anyone been able to make this bullet shoot? - WVB4 - 01-04-2022
When I started reloading a couple of years ago the Nosler 100gr CC HPBT is the first bullet I tried. It shot great for me.
My Grendel seems to have a short throat or the chamber is a little off because I also have to seat bullets deeper than published data or I get into jam territory.
Maybe this is why it shot good for me because they were seated deep. Where are you guys finding them because Im out and havent seen them in stock anywhere forever? Below is my info.
Case- Hornady 0x
WSR primer
CFE 223
OAL- 2.210
CBTO- 1.681
MV- 2,645 @ 62 degrees
100 gr Nosler HPBT Custom Competition-has anyone been able to make this bullet shoot? - Harpoon1 - 01-08-2022
lazyengineer Wrote:I swear, I have tried 3 lots now of this bullet, in 3 different Grendel's, and at least 2 if not more 6.5 Creedmoor barrels. I can NOT make this bullet shoot, no matter what I do. Everything from minimum load, to maximum load, with a spectrum of slow and fast powders. And it will not group. I want to love this bullet, as it is very cost effective, and has a great BC. Has anyone else found the homerun load with these things?
I bought like literally 5-6,000 of them right off the bat when I got into the Grendel. They were dirt cheap and I figured I could make them fly and group out of something. So far Ive been wrong! Have had a similar problem with the Nosler 100 Partitions too. Bummer.
100 gr Nosler HPBT Custom Competition-has anyone been able to make this bullet shoot? - tdbru - 01-08-2022
LE,
what barrel twist rate are you trying to shoot them with? What seating depths have you tried? AR or bolt gun? once fired brass? new brass? unknown number of reloads brass? Same lot/brand brass? range scrounge brass which may contain various mfgr and unknown variety of lot numbers?
Something you didn't mention in the initial post was any seating depth test. if this is a bolt gun it's easier to load jammed, just touching, and off the lands by 0.005", 0.010", 0.020" etc. to do a ladder for seating depth.
if an AR you might, and I repeat maybe might, try a seating depth ladder loading singly and not from a magazine. use the cocking handle to lower the bolt slowly and the forward assist to insure fully seating the round. If an AR you might find, unfortunately, that in your particular barrel/chamber that the accuracy node is at a COL that is too long for magazine feed. It can happen, though with a lighter bullet, hence a probably shorter bullet, I would think exceeding max COL for magazine use before finding a potential accuracy node would be lower probability.
depending upon bullet ogive profile (secant, tangent, hybrid, etc.) and bearing length you might have to touch or jam to get them to group well, which can be acceptable for a bolt match rifle, but for bolt hunting or AR is a non-starter for any use except for an experiment to find an accuracy node.
Also what barrel brand are you running, if known? Do you get good accuracy with this rifle with other bullet/load combinations? Just trying to think through some more variables for you to work through in the attempt to find a load for you that gets these bullets to group through your rifle. I don't suspect bad bullets, but something else in the load/fit for your rifle.
best regards,
-tdbru