N555
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Because that's what I do.
Never bothered because I assumed I wouldn't be able to fit enough N555 in 30-30 especially with the 160gr ftx bullet sitting so far down in the case. Plus I was running low on N555 for about the last 3 years, not any more.
Well I took some N555 and filled a sized case to the bottom on the shoulder and weighed the charge, it weighed 39gr, ya that should be way too much.
Leverevolution works great it's just so temperature sensitive. I had to make summer and winter loads. Loads developed in winter are too hot in the summer and groups open up at least an moa. Backing off 0.3gr seems to have fixed it, but then if I shoot the lighter summer loads in the winter, the groups are still tight, but I get flyers. I went with 34gr in the winter because it was very consistent, flyers are rare. During load development it all boiled down to 34gr vs 33.7gr and 34 just made less flyers in cool weather.
Plus leverevolution burns so dirty.
N555 definitely burns slower than leverevolution. Where leverevolution burns close to W748, maybe a hair slower and N555 burns more like W760. So somewhere between leverevolution and W760 load data should give me a good starting point for N555.
Obviously there's no N555 in 30-30 load data at all.
N555 doesn't burn IMR clean but close, it's no ballpowder that's for sure.
Never bothered because I assumed I wouldn't be able to fit enough N555 in 30-30 especially with the 160gr ftx bullet sitting so far down in the case. Plus I was running low on N555 for about the last 3 years, not any more.
Well I took some N555 and filled a sized case to the bottom on the shoulder and weighed the charge, it weighed 39gr, ya that should be way too much.
Leverevolution works great it's just so temperature sensitive. I had to make summer and winter loads. Loads developed in winter are too hot in the summer and groups open up at least an moa. Backing off 0.3gr seems to have fixed it, but then if I shoot the lighter summer loads in the winter, the groups are still tight, but I get flyers. I went with 34gr in the winter because it was very consistent, flyers are rare. During load development it all boiled down to 34gr vs 33.7gr and 34 just made less flyers in cool weather.
Plus leverevolution burns so dirty.
N555 definitely burns slower than leverevolution. Where leverevolution burns close to W748, maybe a hair slower and N555 burns more like W760. So somewhere between leverevolution and W760 load data should give me a good starting point for N555.
Obviously there's no N555 in 30-30 load data at all.
N555 doesn't burn IMR clean but close, it's no ballpowder that's for sure.
