Black Hills tipped SMK's 77 and 175

[markm]

Snowing? It's 89 degrees here. Send me that ammo!

I want to get some of these bullets and do a head to head at 1000 yards and net the "come up" savings. Judging by your experts comments... I'm thinking they may be like an AMAX bullet.

[bp7178]

Snowing? It's 89 degrees here. Send me that ammo!

I want to get some of these bullets and do a head to head at 1000 yards and net the "come up" savings. Judging by your experts comments... I'm thinking they may be like an AMAX bullet.

That was my first thought, that with the different ogive they were more like the AMAX and had a better b/c by going that way. But, I thought it was always the ogive of the OTM 77gr. SMKs that made them so accurate in a wide variety of guns.

[markm]

Could be a hybrid maybe. I'm not even sure what AMAX's ogive is. It hasn't been depth sensative for us. 178s shoot great at mag length is factory barrels with long leades... but the shape looks VLDish.

[BoilerUP]

I've been living under a rock and just in the last few days found out about these BHA tipped SMK loads.

Anybody gotten some BHA 77s TMKs yet? I've struck out online finding some to order; very curious to try some.

Southwest Ammo has posted on the Hide that perhaps the TMKs will be available as components to everybody sometime in 2015.

[markm]

I haven't seen them anywhere yet.

[vicious_cb]

I haven't seen them anywhere yet.

Looks like they are finally starting to trickle out to dealers. Good luck getting your hands on them, supposedly they sell out within a few hours of being in stock.
Charge weight is ~25grs with laquer sealed primers but no sealant on the bullet and as usual from sierra, a very light cannalure.

Some info:

[556Cliff]

Range report. > http://ar15hunter.com/range-report-b...56mm-77gr-tmk/

[markm]

He could only get .81" out of the load. I bet the bullet is more accurate than that in a quality load. No reference to what his gun is capable with when firing other ammo.

[Onyx Z]

In stock: https://www.triadtactical.com/Black-...-77gr-TMK.html

[markm]

The pics in that review show that they don't have too much crimp on the round. It would be feasible to pull these down. The idea of paying over a buck per round to do this is a little repulsive however.