68gr HP Black Hills Ammo Question

browninghunter86

Anyone have a box of these that can tell me what OAL they have? To the Ogive or the tip is fine


Thanks

JasonMPD

Do you mean the Cartridge Over All Length (COAL)? Black Hill makes ammo that fits in AR magazines, so it will be the Mil-Spec original dimensions... 2.260". Unless I am misinterpreting that you want to knwo some other dimension...

browninghunter86

no that is what I am looking for.... read online someone said theirs was 2.210" and another post said 2.240" so I was just curious. I am trying to replicate that load as close to it as I can

41magnut

I would expect BH to load them to SAMMI since they are going out to the general Public.

The only reason individuals load cartridges longer than 2.260 (or just below that length) for an AR, would be with 80 grain target rounds. Those long projectiles consume excessive amounts of case capacity if loaded to mag length. Most high power shooters will load 80 grain bullets to .010" to .020" off the lands to obtain optimum accuracy. And this is a specialty application for an AR, Long Range / NRA HP target shooting.