My AR 120 Gold Dot loads

[grendelnubi]

I realize the 120 GD's has hit the market again so someone my be looking at doing some load development for them. I wanted to share what I have been hunting with for over the last 3 years with a lot of success. No animal has taken a single step. Farthest shot was 165 yards on a pig. Most of my deer shots were from 75 to 125 yards.

My platform is a Odin Works 18" DMR profile AR. I use what some refer to as "Moscow Match", Wolf steel case (pulled the projectiles and powder) and replaced with the my load and 120 Gold Dot. That way, no worries with loosing brass. At little over 2400 fps is a sweat spot for my setup.

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For my hunting zero, I use a target size of 3 inches since I mostly neck shoot giving my a point blank range of 190 yards. Changing target size to 5 inches will give you are point blank range of 224 yards depending on scope height. Based on my setup, here are my details:

Near Zero:	35 yards
Far Zero:	164 yards
Minimum PBR:	7 yards
Maximum PBR:	190 yards
Sight-in at 100yds:	1.49" high

These are my loads as reference points. Use at your own risk.
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[Coop]

Nice. Should work great.

[ported45]

Second load is what I am using in my Ruger Predator. Runs 2512 fps at the muzzle out of the 22" barrel. Haven't got to give it the meat test yet.

[grendelnubi]

In my RAP, I'm running the 120 Gold Dot, using Starline brass, COAL is 2.283, 31.5 gr LVR, at 95° it runs about 2600 fps, and at 60° it runs about 2560 fps. Based on my observation, this suggest LVR temp sensitivity is around 1.48 fps per degree. Also in cooler temps, the SD numbers are much better so this may play into the TS figures I shared. It would require more testing to determine the actual TS numbers but these are what I have observed.