62 Gr Trophy Bonded Bear Claw Review

Bought these pulled from a great company. American Reloading. Click on name to go there... I cleaned them up then loaded them with new Starline Brass, and CCI41 primers, Prepped the brass of course. Now, being that this NOT a match bullet, and similar to a 62 grain soft point bullet, do NOT expect killer accuracy with it, because you will be disappointed. With any kind of FMJ, or Soft point, or Bonded like this (Speer GD is exception, its more accurate) you will get, generally 1.5-2 MOA with a decent load. I did 7 shot groups, in 2 guns, 2 different barrels, etc. So I could get a wider understanding of how they performed...lets learn how to reload TBBC today!

This is at 50 yards

Using Low Power scope...4x only. So not precision.

Using 7 shot groups, it gives good indicator. flyers all over the place, but this is par for the course using this type of bullet, especially PULLED bullets where some have dents in the ogive from the pull...and weights are all over the place between 61 grains and 62.5 grains.

This bullet is intended for close range anyway, so it doesn't even matter. Anyone that has served in military knows the ammo you qualified with is NOT even as accurate as MANY of these groups, and your issued rifle is pretty much 2-3 MOA.

Took best loads

Took the best loads that showed promise from above and refined them to get best output, and we found it. 23.9 N133, without question. And the Tactical Rifle not bad either. N133 was OK on the upper 2 sheets too, but best here.

These are both 16" barrels.

If it was not for 1 of the 7 shots from the 23.7 N133, it would have been the best. N133 is a great powder, even using 77 grain bullets, its decent. But its stellar for ~64 grains to 50 grain bullets.