05-28-2020, 02:07 PM
Like has been said Varget and RL15 will not give you very good velocity especially out of a 18" barrel. You will be between 2100 and 2200 fps at best and that does not provide enough velocity at impact to get very much expansion so be very aware of that. Don't get sucked into the thought that many do when they see figures stating that bullet X will expand down to a certain velocity which is usually 1800 fps. This means ANY expansion and that is normally just barely flattening the nose a little. Most of the load data that you find is done using 24" barrels and you loose quite a bit dropping down to 18".