Accuracy of speer bullets

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I have heard a few stories about guys having bad luck with them. Anyone have good luck with them? I am not looking for comparisons to bullets out of their class, just to other cup and core bullets like hornady's etc...
 
Personally, in most of my guns, the hornady's are slightly more accurate. But I certainly wouldn't call the Speers inaccurate, no matter what grade of speer bullet. Why don't you just try a box and see how they shoot out of your gun?
 
I've always had spectacular results with the accuracy of Speer bullets. Everything from the 52gr HP in .224 to the 160gr GS in 7mm, they've always been super accurate.
 
Glad to see that there are other people willing to admit to using cup and core bullets, it seems most people write about either cast bullets or target bullets or the ones that are over a dollar each... I will be loading some 175 grain mag tips in the 7 mm rm.. I will post next weekend how they worked.
 
When I first started handloading it was for a 30-06 and I got great results with the 165 gr hot core. I got away from loading them for no real reason and have been using Hornady's for plinking and Barnes TSX for hunting for most of the last five years.
 
The only Speer bullets I've tried were the 62gr. FMJ with canalure in .224 with a 5.56 and in a Wilde chambered ARs. These barrels are both very good accuracy-wise with other loads, and with the Speers, they were averaging 2.5 - 3"
 
For whatever reason, I've used fewer Speer bullets than I have bullets from other manufacturers. But having said that, I've never had occasion to complain about the accuracy of the Mag-Tip or GS, or TB bullets I've used in .30 or .375 caliber. Many years ago I had occasion to load Speer .458/400s in a .45/70 and found that they too shot as well as anything else in that rifle.

I've never seen accuracy that was worth a dam from the 60-65 gr military style FMJ bullets, not even in fast twist barrels, although those were better.
 
I've used a quite a few, and never had any complaints. In fact I have one .308 load that uses Speer 130 gr. JHP and shoots half MOA - it's my "I'm-mad-as-hell-at-the-beavers-and-I-don't-even-want-their-tails" load.
 
50gr tnt was awesome (like keyholes) at 100 yards but it didn't have the BC to take it further if there was ever any wind or a butterfly near by.

went to v-max bullets same weight and they shoot .4 -.6 depending on how i'm shooting but they hit a lot closer at 300+ yards it's less than a 3" group at 300 where the tnt was very inconsistent.

ultimately it's a hunting gun and constancy won out but if i was punching holes at 100 yards i'd throw them back in in a heart beat.

my 6.5 x 55 didn't like the 90 gr tnt's it went about 1.5" from shooting extremely well with heavier noslers. it still took a few coyotes with great results.
 
The Speer 52 grain HP is one of my favorite varmint bullets whenever I do not need a very great BC. [ Read inside of 300 yards] Most rifles I have shot that bullet in have grouped under ¾moa, some well under. I have successfully used the 30/180 Hotcore, and the 30/200 Hotcore, as well as the 8mm/200. all shot very well indeed. Eagleye.
 
My update.. I have a 1910 Ross rebarrelled to 7 mm Rem Mag.. It has been a project of several years, I bought a centurian barrel for it, and a stock blank from somebody in California, it is english walnut. I made a cross bolt for the stock and guard screws on my lathe, and all that is left to do is put sling swivels on it. It has an 11 inch twist, which I know is a bit slow for 175 grain bullets, but I gave it a try with moly coated 175 gr Speer Grand Slams this morning. It has a Bausch and Lomb 1.5x6 scope. I loaded them to the cannalure with 63.9 grains of CF 7900, which gave a muzzle velocity of 2700 fps with the 23 inch barrel by my chrony. Across a sandbag with my jacket on it, I shot two inches at 100 yards. It had very modest recoil, and showed no signs of pressure or difficult extraction, and although I know this is a mild load for a 7 mag, I will not look to go hotter. as it is flat enough for the 200 yards I hunt within, and will topple anything I point at.. I may play with OAL to decrease group size a bit, but I want excellent brass life. The Ross has an excellent factory trigger, and it is a nice rifle to shoot. I made a butt pad out of a 1-1/4" thick peice of rubber, which I cross drilled enough to soften to my liking. I paid $90 for the ross years ago, $90 for the barrel, $150 to get it installed and chambered. $200 for the inletted stock blank, easily 40 hours over the years inletting , finishing and making parts. So minus my time I have about the cost of a rifle in it, which is as good as I could expect. I am just about to call this project done.
 
grand slam 175 shoot ausome in my 7 mag. i find speer to be on par with hornadys for acuracy but prefer to hunt with hornady as i think there better constructed.
 
I once did a test, with my father shooting 200 grain nosler partitions out of his 308 Norma Mag, and me shooting 200 grain .311 dia grand slams out of my p14 that I had rechambered to 300 win mag, so I call it a 303 win mag.. We were shooting into green pine firewood blocks, end on, and splitting out the bullets to see how far they penetrated. To my surprise, they both went about the same distance, 11 inches. I shot a deer with one of those grand slam loads, at about 2900 fps, and the bullet went straight through both sholders, and did not expand a bit.
 
I have only tried 150 grn .30 cal speers in my .308, but found them to be plenty accurate. I can group 3 shots close to an inch which is probably about my limit with an aperature sight. (A Williams FP on a Husky lightweight). I was also quite pleased with the results on a moose I took a couple days ago, the bullet stopped just under the hide on the far side, nicely mushroomed. The range was 40 yds, and the recovered bullet weighed 124 grns.
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I've had excellent results with any of the speer bullets, with proper load testing and powder selection they are just as accurate as any other bullet.
 
I use 165gr Speer's in my .308 and 120gr Speer's in the wife's and kid's 6.5x55 and .260 Rem. They are plenty accurate. The .308 will hover right at an inch for 5 (Factory Rem LTR) and the wife's 6.5x55 will do 1.5" all day. Performance on deer has been text book for all.
 
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