What have you done in the reloading room today
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barnfrog
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Pulled a half-dozen Berry's 124-grain HBFP bullets from the bottom end of my test ladder. 3.5 and 3.7 grains of Universal didn't have enough oomph to cycle the action of the Taurus G2c. 4.1 grains seems to do the trick, so setting up the Dillon RL 450 to load a couple hundred of those tomorrow.
AJC1
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Have you played with that powder in any other capasity... pondered if it was to slow in a magnum loading....
thump_rrr
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Loaded 60 rounds of 308 with different primer, powder and bullet combinations.
FGMM 210M, CCI BR-2, IMR 4064, Varget, 168SMK, 178 BTHP Match.
FGMM 210M, CCI BR-2, IMR 4064, Varget, 168SMK, 178 BTHP Match.
bigpower491
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Loaded 50 44 Specials with 6.5gr of True Blue and some Acme 240gr coated SWC.
The new shooter will be out tomorrow and wants to give my GP100 a whirl. Probably finish the night loading up some small pistol primers into APS strips for some more 40s or 38s
The new shooter will be out tomorrow and wants to give my GP100 a whirl. Probably finish the night loading up some small pistol primers into APS strips for some more 40s or 38s
Seems to do quite well according to published load data:
thump_rrr
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Just finished loading 50 rounds of 44 Magnum with 19.9gr of Vihtavuori N110 over a 240gr jacketed soft point.
Just about to pack up the vehicle and head to the range. The temp should reach a high of 35F at around 1:00.
Just about to pack up the vehicle and head to the range. The temp should reach a high of 35F at around 1:00.
Nasty Canasta
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Loaded up some 308 ladder rounds, 5 each from minimum to max loads in .5 gr increments for evaluation using 165gr boat tail ballistic tip bullets. Headed out this morning for some shooting but don’t think Mrs has the patience for hanging out in the cold while I test these rounds & will save ‘em for another day.
AJC1
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Assembled 100 38s with cast and coated 358-154-noe, over 5.6 grains Silhouette at 1.470 using magtech spp. Me and the boy have been shooting up all the cast and traditional lube stuff and I'm backfilling inventory with my cast pc bullets. Sooo much cleaner.
Had to work yesterday morning and then had a church workday as well as
a business meeting to oversee/chair… and today is church activity all day(99% of Sundays are) but last night I had a few minutes to work on coming up with a good way to “stare and compare” between these two. Interesting, the Sierra manual I have has no info on this bullet(.308, 115gr varminter); the 110 is there, but not 115. I’ll reduce a bit from my 110 vmax load and see where we go. Now to find some more Benchmark…
a business meeting to oversee/chair… and today is church activity all day(99% of Sundays are) but last night I had a few minutes to work on coming up with a good way to “stare and compare” between these two. Interesting, the Sierra manual I have has no info on this bullet(.308, 115gr varminter); the 110 is there, but not 115. I’ll reduce a bit from my 110 vmax load and see where we go. Now to find some more Benchmark…
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bigpower491
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A bit breezy today, our range session got canceled. Ran out the rest of my Hunters Supply 255 SWC 45s, 150 total. Liking this True Blue in 45 Colt, meters very consistent and it's accuracy in my Blackhawk is second to none. I'll be grabbing the big bottle next time.
I'll get out and shoot some tomorrow before shift, probably refill the large primer APS I used then it's on to the Seagrams for the rest of the night
I'll get out and shoot some tomorrow before shift, probably refill the large primer APS I used then it's on to the Seagrams for the rest of the night
45/30-06OKIE
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OK you got me curious and I broke out the paper manual and sure enough they don't list a 115gr bullet.... 110 and 125, sure....
VV Relaoding app does show a 115gr bullet but it's a Lehigh Solid Copper bullet.... so starting at minimum for a 110gr bullet is probably the safest option.
Looks like they recommend a mid 40gr charge of N140 for a 110gr VMax bullet. Hope this helps. The Sierra powder recommendations are kinda harder to find powder that I don't know if you have like IMR 4064 and Reloader 15 and Varget. I know you have a fair bit of VV stuff.
You looked at the same stuff I did. I’ll probably try running #s through GRT as well. I was going to last night but I had an exasperating session with my printer that decided it was broken again and by the time I was done fiddling with that(and it’s still broken) I was done doing anything with technology for the evening.
N140, Benchmark, and… one other I don’t remember are on the agenda. Might pick up some N135 to try too.
AJC1
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Just evaluate a midpoint between 110 and 125. Using rx7 the 110 max is 42 and for 125 is 40.2. I'd be comfortable testing to 41 grains of rx7. Your rifle will let you know.... the slower powders are space limited....
45/30-06OKIE
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So I got to looking for data on 168gr and 175gr bullets with Winchester 760 powder for 30-06 and saw that 54gr is slightly less than max for 175gr-180gr and 54gr is about middle for 165gr-168gr bullets so I was thinking of loading some 30-06 thus evening and doing like 25 rds or so of each since I have a bit more than 50 new primed 30-06 cases just chilling right now. Anyone think I'm crazy or something for doing this? Figured it'd be a safe experiment since I'm basing this on both Sierra and Hornady paper manuals.
AJC1
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So your using the same charge for both, the heavier being a max load? Where is that powder happy? Best loads are given by nosler for those weights and neither is what you propose....
Work? Maybe. Work well? Probably not… my experience with overlapping ladders (in the process of separate work ups I might add) like that is that it’s about 2 minutes of approximately pie plate(exaggeration to make a point
) instead of actually accurate. Before i loaded 25, I’d try five. That’s my two pence worth
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45/30-06OKIE
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It's not quite max and it's for 175-180gr so it's probably fine at a bit less than max. Just shy of 55gr is max but I've shot max loaded 165gr with AA2700 and they seemed pretty tame MV wise so idk. Like the same as 150gr ball out of my M1. Keep in mind I do have an adjustable gas plug that I've got tuned for use with a suppressor so I might not even cycle without the can on it. I haven't tested combo that yet. What's funny is most of the Sierra "Accuracy" loads are pretty potent max charges so idk....
45/30-06OKIE
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Hmm like one enblock clip worth for each bullet? OK sounds good to me.Work? Maybe. Work well? Probably not… my experience with overlapping ladders (in the process of separate work ups I might add) like that is that it’s about 2 minutes of approximately pie plate(exaggeration to make a point
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AJC1
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If your shooting a garand then you should be in service rifle data... 55.5 is max in a bolt gun and Hornaday stops at 748 for win powders. Is 760 the right powder for the job???
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