Hornady Superformance

[jackelope]

Anyone have any experience with the Hornady Superformance ammo? Just ordered a box to try out in the. 280 Rem barrel on my Encore.

[Button Nubbs]

I think the case would expand too much after it was shot. I had a hell of a time getting the bolt open after I sent one down range. It was a vanguard .300 win mag.

I'm a bowhunter so I don't know a whole lot about this stuff but I do you shouldn't have to work the bolt that hard.

[callonetta]

I used to shoot them out of my 30-06 back when they were called "light magnum", never had any issues with them, accurate and faster than regular loads.
Took a bunch of muleys and one bear with them.

[coachcw]

they shhot great outta my .223 and you wont have a bolt issue with that encore . Is that the barrell you got from me ?

[Biggerhammer]

I've only shot them in a .308 gas rifle, Sig 716. Accuracy was acceptable for a 16" gas carbine but I had to pretty much open the gas system on the piston all the way up. Due to the fact they were flat beating the hell out of my bolt carrier group as compared the carbines usual diet of Hornady TAP ammo.

[jackelope]

they shhot great outta my .223 and you wont have a bolt issue with that encore . Is that the barrell you got from me ?

Yeah, Coach. Same barrel.

I shot them today...boresighted and got zero'd with core-loks, then shot the superformance ammo. I purchased the 139 graim GMX's and they shoot good. B.S. on the no increase in felt recoil. This thing kicks like a friggin mule. I think the weight of the rifle isn't helping the recoil. Its a nice liggtweight rifle. I am surprised by the recoil for sure. Man I sound like a Sissy again.
 

[Biggerhammer]

There's a price to pay when your turning your 280 into a magnum.

[atc250r18]

I second that B.S. on the no increased recoil claim.  I've shot a box out of my super light Ruger Mk II in .257 Roberts; they are as accurate as any handload I've tried (I spent a lot of time with this rifle working up loads), they're defidently faster than any of my handloads but have way more recoil.  Not saying that it's too much for me but my wife sure doesn't like them.  I went back to my handloads since she's less timid when she isn't shooting the "red bullets".

[teanawayslayer]

I shoot them out of my remington 700 7mm.  They are a great round. 

[Halo]

I've shot the old 180 grain Light Magnum's out of my Remington model 700 30-06 for years and had great results. MOA groups and usually a pass through on elk. My Savage 116FCSAK 30-06 wont group them well though, had to go to the SST's for a MOA group.

[Bob33]

Years of evidence indicates that Hornady's "Light Magnum" / "Super Performance" ammunition does indeed shoot faster that other equivalant factory loads, without an unsafe increase in pressure.

Accuracy is really something that can't be pinned on a specific load: every gun is different, so you need to find out what each individual gun likes.  I've had several rifles that shot Light Magnum ammunition very well, and a few that didn't. I neither praise nor fault ammunition as being inherently "accurate" or "inaccurate".

Recoil: it's been my experience that these loads do in fact recoil a bit more, as physics would suggest.

[Halo]

While target shooting with my 30-06 I had somone else load my rifle with some Light Magnums and some "regular ammo" to see if I could tell the difference shot by shot from the recoil. I could.

[Miles]

Anyone have any experience with the Hornady Superformance ammo? Just ordered a box to try out in the. 280 Rem barrel on my Encore.

I've used them in my 6.5 x55.  They shoot well, but so did the basic 140 grain SP's that Hornady made prior to the SST in that caliber.  The only thing I'm not sure about is the tend to explode and fragment in the deer.  They'll put the deer down, no problems with that...  It's just that I'm not a big fan of ruining a whole bunch of meat, or picking through it looking for pieces of the bullet.   I'm still going to use them, but I was happier with the older SP's (they stopped making them in my caliber).   If I had the choice (with hornady factory ammo) I would give back the FPS for a bullet that mushroomed well and held together after impact.

[EAS]

im on my 3rd box for my 300 win mag, and i think im going to order 4 or 6 more now. i like them, and you sure can see the trail if you record your shot on film... they are smooth ejecting and never had any problems shootin them out of my savage.
165 gr.

[CAMPMEAT]

they shhot great outta my .223 and you wont have a bolt issue with that encore . Is that the barrell you got from me ?

Yeah, Coach. Same barrel.

I shot them today...boresighted and got zero'd with core-loks, then shot the superformance ammo. I purchased the 139 graim GMX's and they shoot good. B.S. on the no increase in felt recoil. This thing kicks like a friggin mule. I think the weight of the rifle isn't helping the recoil. Its a nice liggtweight rifle. I am surprised by the recoil for sure. Man I sound like a Sissy again.
 

I've got a 300 Mag Barrel for my Encore Josh. And yes, it's a mans gun and does kick like 2 mules....ouch !! Ya outta get one to feel the pain..... :chuckle