Bmt85 wrote:Has anyone tried these bullets before. I know a few muzzleloader bullets have been, but don't recall this one. Should be interesting.
I was looking at bullets on Midway the other day and didn't understand it either. The factory seconds pricing are all over the place compared to the counterparts.
Actually yes, I did a few years ago. Given all the other Hornady FTX family bullets currently showing up as seconds, I have no doubt that these are their 300gr SST/ML product. I bought some and tried them in my old original Bushmaster upper with what I felt were unsatisfactory results. Namely I was not able to make 1 MOA accuracy for 5 shots at 100 yds. I don't recall whether I wrote up a range report on the effort or not. Since then I have gone through several other barrels and now have a Bartz 20" upper. That barrel yielded some good results with the 325gr .458 FTX resized down to .4515, so there is hope that these 300gr SST/ML bullets and FWIW, I think of them still as FTX bullets, will do better the second time around. That's why I ordered 100 of them to play with. The price was right also.
I have yet to write up the 325gr FTX experiment as my scanner broke and I have been dawdling getting the targets scanned.
I seem to recall a member commenting a few years ago that he found that the 300 SST/ML did not expand as rapidly or easily if you prefer, as the other FTX family members. During my last go around with these, I did not get a chance to do a water shot like I did with the 200, 225 and 250 FTX bullets. I seem to recall a member also back then commenting on the tips being of a harder rubber, perhaps soft plastic even, than the other FTX bullets since they were intended for single shot (ML) use and not from cartridges in a tubular magazine. As far as I can tell, the ones I got have the same soft FTX tips as their lighter counterparts. So, weather and time permitting, I will get a ladder test ready as soon as my trigger finger is back on line, which shouldn't be too long. I would like to see a parallel effort done by someone with a 1:16 barrel. That should play to the heavier nature of these.
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