Finally found ammo H-Bar likes

[jbmi]

New Colt H-Bar, have done a few things to make it better but still needs a free floating front handguard.
Had some nice spring weather to take it out and find out what it likes.
Tried 5 different rounds and Black Hills 50gr. V-Max came out on top.
Had 6 different ones to try but forgot the American Eagle XM193 5.56, 55gr. at home, so could only play with the 223 rem's. Don't know how a 5.56 will be any better or worse.
Here's a picture of my groups, all shot at 100yds, fired as fast as I could reaquire the target in my scope. All 25 shots were done in 15 minutes or less.
Last target was with Black Hills but taking a little more time between shots.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/jbmich/IMG_2326.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/jbmich/IMG_2328.jpg

[BluegrassGunGuy]

How does firing fast help you determine what the most accurate load will be? If you took your time on all of them you may have come out with a different winner.

I would also suggest firing 10 shot groups, and 5 or so groups for each load, average out the size of the groups, and then compare.

[JasonM]

How does firing fast help you determine what the most accurate load will be? If you took your time on all of them you may have come out with a different winner.

I would also suggest firing 10 shot groups, and 5 or so groups for each load, average out the size of the groups, and then compare.

this.

[jbmi]

I would not consider this fast shooting, each shot was taken after target was settled steady in the scope (shooting from a rest)
If I'm hunting and take a shot, I'm not going to sit there and wait for the barrel to cool down to take a second or third shot, I'm going to shoot just the way I did at the range.
All 5 types of ammo were shot the same way, using the same method and about the same time. This is how I chose to do it, for me it showed me what I was looking for.
As to the 10 shots, why? I use to do 3 shot groups, moved to 5 shot groups, why not 25 shot groups ??
Again, this is a hunting rifle, not bench rest, it's going to be used in hunting situations, I'm happy with what I found out, I'm not trying to show or tell anyone how to test their rifle, just showing you what I did.

[BluegrassGunGuy]

Sorry I thought you were trying to find out what the most accurate load is in your gun, my bad.

[txbrenek]

New Colt H-Bar, have done a few things to make it better but still needs a free floating front handguard.
Had some nice spring weather to take it out and find out what it likes.
Tried 5 different rounds and Black Hills 50gr. V-Max came out on top.
Had 6 different ones to try but forgot the American Eagle XM193 5.56, 55gr. at home, so could only play with the 223 rem's. Don't know how a 5.56 will be any better or worse.
Here's a picture of my groups, all shot at 100yds, fired as fast as I could reaquire the target in my scope. All 25 shots were done in 15 minutes or less.
Last target was with Black Hills but taking a little more time between shots.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/jbmich/IMG_2326.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/jbmich/IMG_2328.jpg

What is the rifling on the Colt

[sanman96825]

My hbar is 1/9

[christcorp]

Based on those green/black targets, I'd say that Brown Bear was the winner. Very accurate, and you can buy 5X as much ammo as 1 box of Blackhills. But if $1 PER SHOT isn't important, then I think you are correct. The blackhills slightly beat out the others.