Religious Shooter Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 (edited) Has anybody tried the 62 (lead core version) and 75 grain bullets from Wideners? 75 grain HPBT 5000 @ $495 Delivered 62 grain FMJLCBT 500 @ $39 Undelivered 62 grain FMJLCBT 5000 @ $370 Delivered They are a lot cheaper than 69 SMK's. Wondering if I should get them. Edited December 10, 2007 by Religious Shooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walangkatapat Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Has anybody tried the 62 (lead core version) and 75 grain bullets from Wideners?75 grain HPBT 5000 @ $495 Delivered 62 grain FMJLCBT 500 @ $39 Undelivered 62 grain FMJLCBT 5000 @ $370 Delivered They are a lot cheaper than 69 SMK's. Wondering if I should get them. Did you happen to try any of the 62's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Religious Shooter Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Nope. I'm close to pulling the trigger and buying them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigtex84 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Sorry if this is a little late as I believe they are out of the 75gr. But I got 2k of each and so far I like the 62gr ones for the money there weight is more consistent. the 75gr vary by up to 3/4 of a grain and the 62gr varied by less than 1/2. Im guessing these are just for practice and plinking and for that its hard to find a better deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sc0 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Purchased 5k of the 62gr FMJBT without cannelure, +/- up to .5gr will remeasure more but they shot pretty good at 100yds in a bolt gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Religious Shooter Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 What kind of groups are you guys getting? What's your load? Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sc0 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 24.3gr Varget, Tikka T3 mag length, Winchester SRP, Winchester virgin brass, 2740fps. .5-1.5moa For comparison: same brass/powder/OAL, primer, except with a 69gr SMK, .5-1moa same brass/powder/OAL, primer, except with a 77gr SMK, 1-3moa (compressed load, 2650fps avg +/- 150fps) same brass/powder/max OAL, primer, 77gr SMK, .25moa, 2750fps. Will try more loads with RL-15 powder... I will say the bullets are Pretty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigtex84 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Im getting about 2.5 moa out of my cmmg with 14.5 barrel. With 24.5 grains of IMR 4895. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Religious Shooter Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 Just some data... Widener's currently has the 75 grain bullet back in stock. It essentially shoot about .25-.3 MOA worse than my normal long range load. My gun didn't like the 62's. Though I didn't exactly try to do any real load development with any of the bullets. All groups at 100 yards. Fired from a 16-17" SS 1x8 DPMS barrel. Barrel was dirty. Was looking for relative measurements and not absolute. Chrono data was average for 5 rounds. Groups measured edge-to-edge. DATE PRIMER BRASS CHARGE POWDER 3-Shot 4-Shot 5-Shot NOTES 69 Nosler CC 2nds (Control group) 3/14/08 CCIBR Wideners New 25.8 Varget 0.58 0.93 1.20 #11. 3/14/08 CCIBR Wideners New 25.8 Varget 0.15 0.23 1.35 #1. 6 shots. 2874 fps. 55 FMJBT Hornady (Control group) 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 26 A2230- 0.78 2.30 2.80 #10. Weighed charges. 62 FMJBT Wideners 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 26.2 RL15 0.55 1.90 4.00 #7. Weighed charges. 2994 fps. 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 26.4 RL15 1.85 3.55 3.60 #8. Weighed charges. 3056 fps. 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 26.4 VARG 0.80 1.50 3.00 #6. Weighed charges. 2971 fps. 75 HPBT Wideners 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 24.8 VARGET 0.70 1.10 1.50 #2. Weighed charges. 2730 fps. 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 25 VARGET 1.05 1.55 1.60 #3. Weighed charges. 2743 fps. 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 24.8 RL15 0.70 1.35 1.70 #4. Weighed charges. 2765 fps. 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 25 RL15 0.40 1.43 1.85 #5. Weighed charges. 2797 fps. 55 FMJBT Wideners 3/14/08 CCI Scharch 26 A2230- 0.75 1.90 2.75 #9. Weighed charges. 3172 fps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Religious Shooter Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 Just an FYI... I bought 5000 of the 75's and the box they came is marked PRVI PARTIZAN. The 500 rd pack (that I bought) wasn't marked as such. So these 75's are probably the same used in the loaded PRVI 75's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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