Bitterroot Valley Ammo

[sofbak]

I ran 200 rounds of long colt from BVAC through a Ruger "new" vaquero today-geat stuff! Cheaper than dirt had it in bulk boxes-$130 for 250 rounds, so I snagged two boxes.

Anybody else shoot this stuff? Has anyone run it through a chrony? This is a load I would really like to duplicate on the press.

It's a 255 gr lead rnfp bullet, but I can't get any reliable data on the muzzle velocity. The BVAC website says it's 780 fps, the cheaper than dirt ad says it's 960 fps, and when I called the factory to get the truth, the young lady I asked had to call me back and she said it wa 830 fps-and she didn't seem to fully understand the question to begin with so I'm not sure I got the right answer.

If anyone knows about this ammo, or if you're in the San Diego area and have a chronograph....

TIA

[mud99]

I bought bvac in 9mm and .223 at one point.

I had several rounds in both calibers which had mis-seated bullets at the wrong depth. Two of the 9mm rounds had bullets so crooked they had shaved the jacket on one side. I did not fire them, but if they had chambered, they might have been dangerous.

Inspect all of your bvac ammo before firing.

[RugerNo1]

Inspect all of your bvac ammo before firing.

I shot some BVAC .223 ammo a couple years ago before when you could not find primers. They worked fine enough play.