01-12-2024, 12:25 AM
Zinkin Wrote:Koda, are you still running these Hammers? I have a box of 129gn absolute hammer and 125gn hammer HHT and 80gn HHT in .264 to try in my 6.5 grendel and 6.5 PRC. Also bought a box of 200gn Power Hammer to try out in my .35 whelen. I do have a sortment of powders AA2520, 2808XBR, H4831sc, cfe223, N560, N565, N568, varget, Retumbo and 4350. I think I will try cfe223 and AA2520 first with these bullet first and work up a good hunting load. My PSA upper groups the AA129gr SST's pretty dang good. I also bought a couple of boxes of Barnes 100 and 120gn TSX and TTSX to try. How do these bullets group for you, like better slow, mid range or upper loads?
The Absolute Hammers thrive in faster burn rates. The minimal land area facilitates velocity that are rather surprising to me, anyways. Something between Rimshot Tac & H335 would be where I'd expect to find top performance. Big down side to the Absolute Hammers is that you have little reference data to work with & the credibility of the data available is a question mark. Rather few are comfortable going out on a limb to develop there own load data.