What 6mm/243 bullets are you using on Rams?
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:02 pm
If you are shooting any 6mm/243 cartridge such as 6BR, 6 Creedmore, 243 Win, 6mm Remington, 6 CX, 6X47 Lapua or any other cartridge or variant, what bullet are you using on Rams? What other bullets have you tried?
Please share any experiences, results, thoughts, postulations, future plans and snide comments you may have. Please limit the conversation to 6mm/243
If you would also share what bullet you are using for C, P and T, that would be helpful too.
I have Sierra 107gr MK's (the new pointier version) for C, P and T and I have a few other bullets to try for Rams when I get back to Phoenix. I talked a the Hornady Rep at the SHOT Show last week. He seemed to understand the question and had some input. Based on his recommendation I am going to try some Hornady ELD-X bullets. They introduced them a few years ago but initially didn't have a 6mm/243 offering. I think they introduced that last year. The claim a G1 BC of .512 so you give up quite a bit in wind deflection at Rams but maybe the construction will make up for it.
I asked the Hornady Rep about their bonded bullets. He explained that the methods used for bonding did not allow the concentricity of the core to be adequately controlled, even if a post bonding swaging step was added. That would explain why I keep hearing that bonded bullets "just don't shoot". He went on to say that the construction ELD-X was Hornady's answer to providing a tough bullet that will shoot. I don't expect it to keep up with a Berger, SMK or DTAC (also made my Sierra) but perhaps it will be good enough.
To summarize reports thus far;
Sierra 107gr Matchking, 2
Sierra 110gr Matchking, 1
DTAC 115gr, 2
Hornady 105 V-Max, 1
110 SMk traveling 2809fps, 8 out of 9
107 MKs with good results on rams. Lost a few but that's a given with the light bullets.
Sierra 107's at 2850 fps for the rams and didn't loose very many. a low shot right above the front leg was the big looser and the back half of the animal was the place to hit with the most success
115grain D-Tac bullets for rams, velocity is 2650fps
Hornady 105 v-max, 243 Winchester. No success rate reported
I know of someone else using DTAC 115's that is not on this site very often
Please share any experiences, results, thoughts, postulations, future plans and snide comments you may have. Please limit the conversation to 6mm/243
If you would also share what bullet you are using for C, P and T, that would be helpful too.
I have Sierra 107gr MK's (the new pointier version) for C, P and T and I have a few other bullets to try for Rams when I get back to Phoenix. I talked a the Hornady Rep at the SHOT Show last week. He seemed to understand the question and had some input. Based on his recommendation I am going to try some Hornady ELD-X bullets. They introduced them a few years ago but initially didn't have a 6mm/243 offering. I think they introduced that last year. The claim a G1 BC of .512 so you give up quite a bit in wind deflection at Rams but maybe the construction will make up for it.
I asked the Hornady Rep about their bonded bullets. He explained that the methods used for bonding did not allow the concentricity of the core to be adequately controlled, even if a post bonding swaging step was added. That would explain why I keep hearing that bonded bullets "just don't shoot". He went on to say that the construction ELD-X was Hornady's answer to providing a tough bullet that will shoot. I don't expect it to keep up with a Berger, SMK or DTAC (also made my Sierra) but perhaps it will be good enough.
To summarize reports thus far;
Sierra 107gr Matchking, 2
Sierra 110gr Matchking, 1
DTAC 115gr, 2
Hornady 105 V-Max, 1
110 SMk traveling 2809fps, 8 out of 9
107 MKs with good results on rams. Lost a few but that's a given with the light bullets.
Sierra 107's at 2850 fps for the rams and didn't loose very many. a low shot right above the front leg was the big looser and the back half of the animal was the place to hit with the most success
115grain D-Tac bullets for rams, velocity is 2650fps
Hornady 105 v-max, 243 Winchester. No success rate reported
I know of someone else using DTAC 115's that is not on this site very often