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I have a Rock River Predator 16” factory manual states 3/4” moa with match ammunition. I’m not even attempting to ask the silly question of “will this ammo give me that thru this rifle”. I have gotten sub moa with this rifle using Hornady 73gr eld but I have a line on a good deal (given current prices) on 300-400rds of the Nosler 223 69gr Match Grade Custom Competition and wonder if anyone here has experience with it. * I have no experience with Nosler ammunition. | ||
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Short answer -- it's not in the league of other 69 grain HPBT loads. I won't buy it again, as long as I have access to other ammo with 69 SMK bullets. I probably wouldn't buy it as long as I can shoot 55 grain plastic tip ammo, either -- like Hornady Vmax or ammo that uses Sierra's equivalent to the Vmax bullet. The Nosler ammo is pretty -- great looking brass, bullets look uniform. It's the slowest of all 69-grain factory ammo I've tested. Their competition bullet has a lower BC than SMK, so it requires noticeably more elevation at longer distances. It will shoot about 1 to 1-1/2 MOA at distances to 300-400 yards in my 223 rifles. A few times I got 2 to 2-1/2 MOA WTF fliers, and the fliers weren't from my trigger pulls, or the wind. FGMM 69 shoots in the 1/2 to 3/4 MOA ballpark in my rifles -- both bolt action and AR15. I've shot Nosler ammo side by side with 69 grain FGMM, Gorilla, Federal's other 69-grain loads, Freedom Munitions, and Sierra. This was done over the course of a few months this fall and winter. Nosler is way better than FMJ ammo, but it is a long ways from match ammo. I see Nosler 223 ammo on ammoseek.com here and there. I think it doesn't sell out all that fast because people like me know it just isn't in the league of factory match ammo. | |||
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I've loaded Nosler 223 and 6mm bullets, could not get them to shoot anywhere near a Berger or Sierra. | |||
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And here I thought I’d get to learn which match ammo couldn’t stay out of other people’s business. Seriously, good information as usual from fritz and offgrid. ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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