Same 150gr bullet out of 7mm rem mag has over 3000fps and it is a great performer, I'd say go as fast as you can on this one!
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Nosler Ballistic Tip Expansion Issue
- Thread starter ahocutt1
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OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE VELOCITY:
Minimum: 1800 fps (549 mps)
Maximum: 3200 fps (975 mps)
You are likely at or under the min recommended velocity for that round.
Speed it up.
That's right. Push it.
2850 FPS and go.
150g may be a little too heavy for that cartridge in such a short barrel and is way heavy for deer sized game. I'd drop down to the 120g or 140g nosler ballistic tip so you can get better velocity and energy. If you had a 22" barrel, you could probably get by with the 150s, but the 140s would still perform better at 7x57 velocities.
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Never had any issue whatsoever at speed. Love me some B/T
I shot 2 deer with nosler BT handloads this past season 1 deer I watched run and fall dead if I hadn't been a able to see it run and crash it wouldn't have been a good chance of recovery. Zero blood other than when it fell and was shaking around. Second deer dropped in his tracks and blood everywhere, first deer had no exit and ruined all the meat in the shoulder, second deer it mushroomed nicely and exited. Both were moving 2800 fps, 57.3 grains of winchester 760. First deer was roughly 75 yards out and the second was about 150 yards. I believe range of shot has a decent bit of impact on the performance nosler ballistic tips. I've loaded up some hornady SST and ELD-X to use next year, on paper they hold a group better, anxious to see how they perform in the woods.
Balls to the wall as long as your gun's to good condition.
TRY, next RL19, middle charge and check it to see the results...
