I am hoping that my fellow members here can give me their feedback/experience on the prefered bullet for the Criterion barrel in .223 (1:8 twist). I bought one of these from Jim (NSS) and while I'm getting good results with 69gr - 80gr SMKs, I'm thinking that the barrel will do better (maybe with a diff. Bullet). My factory LRPV (26") barrel shoots the 69gr SMKs just under 1/4" moa (using Varget), so I figured the Criterion could easily match that - but sadly, I've not been able to break the sub 1/3" moa using any of the SMKs (again... using Varget). I did once try to shoot some of the 75gr AMaxes in the factory barrel with poor results. yet I've heard that these are phenominal bullets, so I'm going to try a box of them in the Criterion.
What bullet(s) are you finding work best in the Criterion .223 barrels (and some loading info would be nice to share if you don't mind - thinking of trying RL-15)?
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