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    Posted: October/22/2007 at 05:59

I cannot seem to stabilize 200gr Nosler Part bullets in my 300H&H rifle. Any comments or help on this subject will be appreciated. I have shot enough 178 gr Hornady and 200gr Sierra Gameking bullets to know that they stabilize.

Why will the Noslers not stabilize? Is it that the Noslers (flat base) have to much bearing surface? I do not have a runout gauge so I cannot check concentricity. I do however take the utmost care during the reloading process. The rifling is 1:10 checked.

I have read a fair amount regarding the loading for a 300H&H using our local powders and I am right within all the specifications. So there is nothing glaringly wrong.

According to the tables the 200gr should be doing about 2750 ft per sec.

 

I am also posting quite a few targets, as a picture paints a thousand words or something like that.

The first two pictures are of 178 grainers, the next three 200gr Sierra Gameking and the last three the dreaded 200gr Noslers. In all cases I have fired a minimum of 5 rounds as per Graysteel and Dale’s request.

Take a careful look at the last target and you will see why they insist on 5 shots. Look at that 3 shot grouping…… Now if I photoshopped those other two holes out maybe the Noslers would work for me!!!!!

I am not looking for target accuracy, but 1 ˝ inch would make me happy. Any comments???help????

 



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have you checked 200 and 300 yds groups the bullet may not have stabalized by 100 yds. partitions are not known for accuracy, have you checked a different lot # ?
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No I have not checked longer distances. I thought that the Sierra boattails may in fact give the short distance stability problem.

Maybe the answer lies in your statement - "Part are not known for stability" and no matter what I try it will not work.

I have purchase 3 x 50 boxes but did not check lot numbers. They are a bit expensive for me to purchase diff lot numbers. Either these work or they get tossed.

Thanks for feedback.

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8shots!!!!!.......................That is somewhat of a strange problem you have there!!! The same rifle you had spent the money on too? Assuming that nothing else is wrong; scope, barrel, stock, bedding, brass, bullet uniformity, COL, etc., I would concentrate on changing the bullets and your powders around and try different combos. If your groups tighten up by changing and using different combos, then your particular rifle does not prefer the 200 gr.partitions with that particular powder you are using. Also, I`ve read that certain barrels just need more rounds through them to shoot better. If after experimenting and you still get lousy groups, then you may require another barrel. However I`m sure, that the least of your problems is your Leupold scope???? LOL!!!!!..............For my newer 300 WSM Ruger Frontier 16.5" barreled compact, about 3 months ago, I loaded up some 200 gr. Accubonds for the first time. 100 yard groups were a consistent 1.20", outside to outside or less for 3 shots. Chrono`d MV was 2828 fps. using 69gr. of RL 19 (max. load)..........Switch to the 200 gr. Accubonds and see what happens!! If your groups tighten up, then forget the Partitions. You are really gonna have to do some playing around with this one!! Have some coffee and contemplate!!! 
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I don't think checking at a longer range will do you much good. Rate of spread generally doesn't decrease with range. It usually only increases. In other words, once the bullet is traveling on a line that is not parallel with the bore it will tend to continue on that line.

I agree with the general view. I would suspect the bullets themselves maybe a bad lot like Dale suggested, maybe they just don't like the power load. As changing the bullets tightens the group, I would try either a different lot or significantly dropping the power load to see if that changes anything. Just my two cents.
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when a projectile is at the change pt in stability it will cork screw around the trajectory flight path as well as pitch and yaw. Some are just worse than others. slow motion 44 mag cleary shows, and 38 super loads in 160 with twist rates below 1/9 where a problem for many years. I have a steyr PSS that shoots 200 gr SMK even better at 300 yds than 100. ranges past about 500 are different.
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Certainly, the helical path mentioned can be an issue with any spin stabilized rounds, but my understanding is the total dispersion from that is fairly small compared to other factors. I would be surprised if the dispersion from a helical path in this case would exceed 1" maximum. (I would be really interested folk's thoughts on helical path dispersion numbers) Also, I don't see much elongation of the holes, so I wouldn't think there could be too much precession present. I am not disagreeing with Dale's point; I just still have the feeling that because the variance to so large, less subtle causes may also be playing a role.
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closer to 4" in 44 and up to 9 in 38 super, my PSS would run about 3 at 100 yds. keyholing in 38 super. also 64 gr wsp .224 will give about 2 in at 100 yds in slower than 1/12 twists. and slower than 2600 fps. and keyholing about 1 in 10.

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Thanks for your feedback on this one. Yes I need to drink a cup of coffee and think it through. My intentions are to try both the very top end load or around 2900 ft per sec, and the bottom end, around 2400 ft per second. If neither gives a positive answer, then the box is going out of the window. I will then have to rethink my premium bullet strategy. Maybe go for 180gr, but that is another problem for later.

Graysteel this is my newly rebarreled rifle. The 200gr Sierra Gameking seems to perform ok for hunting. 180 gr performs very well, even putting me into second place in a shooting comp a while ago.

My guess is that this rifle do not like the Nosler for some reason. The Barnes X apparently is also difficult a bullet I am told. I thought of going to Barnes X, but a reliable shooter friend says it will give me the same level of frustration. So there must be something said for each make of bullet and how a rifle responds to it.

I will be out of shooting this week-end, but hope to report back week-end next about upper end and lower end loads on the Nosler.

 

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I would certainly be interested to hear your follow up. Speaking of follow ups... Dale, those are interesting numbers you posted, do you have a feel for the length per rotation of the helix for any of those rounds? It would be interesting to get a feel for rate of procession in those rounds.
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a close look at the coupled differential equations sierra uses for their ballistic programs shows that they can be combined to give 2nd order quasi-peroidic differentials  of the Duffings types, and as such the "system" dampens out at some point (the trajectory of the differentials or phase diagram forms a spiral or degenerating helix). the 44 period of oscillation as far as I can tell from the slow mo's is about 2 ft. My impression of the 38 super is about 3 feet from, playing with keyholing, and the 64 grs .233 about 5. this obviously points to velocity as being a big determinate (not in the matrix sense). I have no idea on the stey-- with a 1/12 twist it came as a suprize, but I rarely use 308 past 600 yds. preferring bigger stuff. I suspect the center of mass plays the largest role.
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Dale, please repeat yourself, but in English this time!!!!

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Dale, thanks very much for the info. 

8Shots, basically he pointed out the path is one of a helix that has a continually decreasing diameter. The bullet doesn't simply stabilize at some point during the orbit, but actually tends to approach the center axis.

This is a correction of my statement (better model) that suggested the error was an additive process  i.e. (Diameter of the Helix + Angular Variance)

In the model I suggested, a moderate diameter helix combined with a small angular variance would tend to produce a round that had an apparent decreasing MOA variance, but still had an increasing total variance. In other words, the bullet impact may be 2.5 inches off at 100m - 2" from the helix and 0.5" from the angular error. And the bullet may be 3 inches off at 200m - again 2" from the helix and now 1' from the angular error.  In this case the bullet is displaced by 2.5 MOA at 100 and 1.5 MOA at 200. The MOA decreased, but the total error still increased from 2.5 to 3.

Dale points out this is a 2nd order function, meaning the rate of change also changes. He also points out that the rate of change is approaching zero. This means the round is forming a tightening (decreasing diameter) spiral around the axis of the bore (approximately). In this case it is possible to actually have a both the MOA and the total dispersion decrease at longer ranges. For example, if the helix starts with a diameter of 4 inches, and there is an angular error of 1 MOA, the bullet could seem to be 5 inches off of target at 100m. However, at 200m the helix may only have a diameter of 1 inch, so that the total maximum dispersion would be 1" + (1 MOA @ 200m)  resulting in an error of 3" rather than 4". The apparent MOA has decreased and the total dispersion has also decreased. The rifle has become more accurate not just in measure of angle but also in absolute spread.

He also points out that from the slow motion video's it appears the diameter of the helix is such that this is a likely outcome.


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Thought I said that.

 

If a system can be reduced to a "control system" many tools become available, rather than using hit or miss (no pun intended) "experiments". LTI (linear time invariant-laplace transforms) are ideally suited for this stuff. Spring oscillations, beams and such mimick the behavior of almost any system. The description of the ballistics of projectivle by Sierra and others in this stuff (JBM) require numerical computer computation (affectionately referred to as numanal) using solvers that iterate a variable thru a matrix of input values. For the sake of simplicity these are then given in tables using each of the coupled variables "plotted" against the first input, usually time or distance along an x axis. (frequency if they are waves). Because of the readership and the goal of the use for this information they are never plotted against each other (phase diagrams) as the information has little to do with the outcome of the shot. Perturbation simulations can then be "injected" at this point to see "at that  point" when center of mass causes instability (bifurcation parameter) and the projectivle becomes a hockey puck or a badmitton birdie.

Graysteel's "translation" is right on and add that at some point the projectile "wants" to become more accurate but the perturbation by outside forces takes over and one sees the statistical dispersion that accompanies long range shooting endeavors.

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Originally posted by Graysteel Graysteel wrote:

......... Dale, those are interesting numbers you posted, do you have a feel for the length per rotation of the helix for any of those rounds? It would be interesting to get a feel for rate of procession in those rounds.

 

I too have wondered about those numbers!

 

I have looked real hard at those target pictures and I can only see 'perfect' nose forward bullet holes.  (One does look a bit funny until you realise that it crosses an inked and un-inked zone on the target.  The 200gr Nosler Part. bullet holes all look very true.

 

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8shots, I think you and I should just go hunting!

 

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Thanks for that Dale.  This is fun!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 8shots Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October/30/2007 at 03:02

Thanks for all the feedback. Dale thanks for that website. Will have a closer look when I have time.

303Guy, I also looked at possible keyhole effect etc, but the bullets seems to punch straight. Anyway, this coming week-end I will try the higher end loads etc.

Man, you are welcome for a hunt. Just bring lots of ammo!

 

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Originally posted by Dale Clifford Dale Clifford wrote:

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Good site, thanks Dale!

 

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