Accuracy of Black Hills HD/SHTF ammunition

[rocsteady]

Have come across several posts recently where members seemed to be unimpressed with Black Hills for one reason or another.

Anyone have any formal/legit accuracy testing of the BH 50g?

[vicious_cb]

Have come across several posts recently where members seemed to be unimpressed with Black Hills for one reason or another.

Anyone have any formal/legit accuracy testing of the BH 50g?

What? BH makes great ammo, anyone who thinks BH is garbage is smoking something.

[rocsteady]

What? BH makes great ammo, anyone who thinks BH is garbage is smoking something.

Not garbage, I think it was more along the lines of tolerances and variances from round to round.

[markm]

BH is garbage ammo. The only good thing they do is pick nice projectiles that mask a lot of their sloppy manufacturing.

You really have to work hard to make a premium bullet shoot bad. So the real reason people view BH as premium is that the other options out there are just that BAD.

I mean... if you switch to BH from some M855 or XM193 with a 2.5 MOA bullet.... YEAH... it's going to seem like good stuff.

[vicious_cb]

BH is garbage ammo. The only good thing they do is pick nice projectiles that mask a lot of their sloppy manufacturing.

You really have to work hard to make a premium bullet shoot bad. So the real reason people view BH as premium is that the other options out there are just that BAD.

I mean... if you switch to BH from some M855 or XM193 with a 2.5 MOA bullet.... YEAH... it's going to seem like good stuff.

Not everyone makes perfect tailored .1133333 MOA handloads

[Iraqgunz]

A few years back when I did the SPR Sniper Course we had to use BH 77gr. ammo. It was by far the best ammo I had fired and functioned 100% during the course.

[markm]

You literally can't screw up those 77 gr bullets. They are that good.

Hand loads aren't THAT much more accurate than a 77 grain BH load... But the things that irritate me about BH are their Bullet runout, poor quality brass (since I like to reuse the brass), Bad primer seating depth (on .308.. not observed on .223).

We got some once fired 300 WM brass from a cat who shot a precision class at Blackwater, and the shit was useless. Primer pockets were too loose to bother reloading.

They can't put a bullet in straight to save their lives... but thats where the SMK covers for their slop.

We had some Red box .308 168s that wouldn't fire in a factory bolt gun due to primers seated too deep.

There's literaly not ONE THING I've measured from BH where I said "hey... that's acceptable".

[JHC]

I thought back in the day Molon's sick precision group analysis was often included BH Redbox.

I thought it was my imagination or more likely declining skills but several years ago my N4 Recce regularly printed sub-moa for 5 shots with BH bluebox 77 gr and then about a year passed and the new BH bluebox 77 and 75 gr I was buying would not get close. It's had me scratching my head for a long time and I wondered if it wasn't all me.

[markm]

Hard to say with that blue box stuff. Who knows what those jokers are doing these days.

I can remember years back that .223 stuff had way long brass... out of spec... not trimmed at all. And the head stamps were damn near tumbled off the brass.

I don't know how they cleaned their brass, but it was harsh on the cases.

[ST911]

The BHA I've used and seen used...an awful lot of it...has performed with distinction. I can count on one hand the number of issues I've had in 20yrs with all collective BHA offerings, something I can not say for any of the major manufacturers and a few smaller ones.

In the accuracy department, I've had particularly good results with the the BH Gold 155gr AMAX in .308, the 124gr XTP in 9mm, and various .223 especially the 60 VMAX, 68 OTM, and Mk262.