Saturday I loaded up some bullets I found on my bench shelf so we would have something to tinker with at the hide. I found these Speer 70 gr soft point varmint bullets that just visually scream LOW B.C.

They shot a decent sub MOA 100 yard group out of the Rem 700 5R, and actually POI'd an inch high. But walking out from 500 yards to a few failed attempts at 1000 yards really highlighted B.C. efficiency.

Our 77s are loaded right around MAX, and these 70s were loaded a little over published MAX with 22.0 gr of XBR.

pictured here compared to the TMK:


Pappabear may have jotted down some specifics on the come ups, but at 1000, the scope maxed out at 16 mils and we weren't even landing bullets on the mound on which the target sits. It looked like they needed another 2-3 mils to get to the target.