So Hornady came out with the ELD VT concept to really boost the 22 Arc performance as a Varmint round relative to the 22-250. The idea being to create long nose hollow space the allow lighter bullets to have higher BC’s than traditional varmint bullets. This is the main problem with the Grendel as in trying to shoot to 1,000 yds and beyond . The high BC heavy bullets in 6.5 exist traditionally at 130 gr. Even the 123’s while respectable BC’s, you still can’t drive them fast enough. The Hornady ELD VT design is about overcoming those shortfalls.
I’ve run ballistics on them out of a 6. 5 Grendel and if thru shoot well , they become the go to round for long range precision and varmint hunting. Looked for bullets for weeks on end. No joy. But I found loaded ammo at Schells. So I ordered 60 rounds. Out of a 20” barrel expecting just around 2,800 and close to 2,900 fps from a 24” barrel. Should get them next week . Ballistic are as good or better than any 6mm ARC load If they work as expected and they shoot half decent I’ll be looking for a couple hundred bullets to hand load.
The 308 174 gr ELD VT bullets will do same thing in the 308 win. I may try them next.
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I’ve run ballistics on them out of a 6. 5 Grendel and if thru shoot well , they become the go to round for long range precision and varmint hunting. Looked for bullets for weeks on end. No joy. But I found loaded ammo at Schells. So I ordered 60 rounds. Out of a 20” barrel expecting just around 2,800 and close to 2,900 fps from a 24” barrel. Should get them next week . Ballistic are as good or better than any 6mm ARC load If they work as expected and they shoot half decent I’ll be looking for a couple hundred bullets to hand load.
The 308 174 gr ELD VT bullets will do same thing in the 308 win. I may try them next.
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