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I found the same thing with the Berger 155 hybrids, and strangely the same as the SMK Palma bullet #2156. They both perform well after a 0.040" jump.

The OP sounds like the guy was shooting at 1000 yards without already having a confirmed elevation at 900 or even 800 yards and that could be said to be stretching the boundaries of hope a bit too far. I was shooting on Stickledown a while back where a shooter was having a similar problem to that referred to in the OP. After 4 shots that the marker couldn't mark or call the fall of the shot, the RCO stopped him shooting. When I spoke to the guy afterwards it turned out it was the first time he'd shot that rifle at distance and hadn't even obtained an elevation at 300 yards. Luckily for him we were shooting at 300 yards that afternoon and I helped him get a 300 yard zero having got him on the paper on the second shot. I advised him to leave shooting at 1000 yards again until he could first hit the target at 600 yards then 800 yards then 900 yards.

SEB Joy-pod every time.

I can think of a few who would love to shoot that brute at Orion

Good luck Mark. Soon to be filled with shelves full of man cave stuff eh.

There was an interesting paper published recently on the effects of accuracy on annealed cases, or rather, the adverse effects due to case hardening. The conclusion was that annealing does improve accuracy and there was a lengthy explanation as to why. From a personal point of view, based on annealing by hand, I hadn't noticed any spectacular improvement. However, since a mate of mine acquired an AMP machine and has annealed some cases for me, I have noticed a definite reduction in vertical dispersion.

George, 220 grn at 2659? Wow, I think I'm gonna need bedding compound rather than Fixodent :-)

Amleto, now I know what I'm doing wrong. My wind reading is bordering on dyslexia so I'm going to have to try the heavy bullets, ha ha.

Interesting comments. However, in the UK I don't know anyone shooting F TR who uses anything other than the 155.5 FB Bergers and that includes most of the GB F TR team.

Just to be picky, the ICFRA rule state that .308 bullets must not exceed 156 grains or the factory tolerance for 155 grain bullets where factory ammunition is used. This is an important point otherwise it would rule out using Berger 155.5 FB target bullets in reloaded ammunition.

Hi John, What is the fitting?

gbal is right. I did overlook the parameter of cost, and considering the kit you describe the #2155 SMK is a really good bullet. So, my apologies for giving you a minor scare. Up to 600 and even 800 yards the 2155 performs well but will never beat a Berger in a custom rifle (but that's not what you are after). I would add though, and I'm sure other's will agree on this, the #2156 new Palma bullet is very finicky to tune. They are known to be jump sensitive and it can be a pain to find the best seating depth, whereas the 2155 is very jump tolerant.

I can only call it as I see it from experience. I used the SMK Palma's and everyone I met said that "if you want to compete it has to be Berger 155.5s." Since changing over I've won three comps. The difference is very noticeable. I batch measured and weighed both SMk's and Berger 155.5s recently and the range difference was small with the Berger's but the SMKs were disappointing. The ogive measurement range was very wide. Out of only 100 I had 4 different batches compared with 2 compared to Bergers. And then there was the weight difference as well. Not impressed.

+1 to that. A very interesting read.

Does anyone know the size, in MOA and in inches, of the scoring rings on the 900 and 1000 yard F-Class targets?