jgh4445
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Some of you may have read my earlier thread on the 130 gr Game King for the .260. I had worked up a very accurate load with H4350 and another with RL 19. Always one to try to do just a little better, I wanted to bump my loads up just a notch to see if I could get a bit faster and still have a tiny group. I checked pressure signs very carefully and these loads showed no issues in my Sako 85 Bavarian Carbine. Warning...disclaimer...whatever you want to call it... do not start with these loads in your rifle!!!!
I thought from muzzle blast and felt recoil that the RL 19 load was a faster load. Boy, was I surprised. I never would have thought the H4350 loads would be almost 400 fps faster. But, although this chronograph talks, I don't think it lied. Its a CED Millenium II. Pardon the crude record keeping but the chronograph doesn't have a printer. It does have a computer cable but I didn't hook it up.
Another thing I noticed was that the loads with RL19 ALL shot to the POA. The H4350 load shot almost 2 inches above POA. I think I'm gonna stop here and go with the H4350. The RL19 load is a max load at 45.5 and according to the manual I was using the H4350 load is a half a grain over max. Again, DON'T TRY THIS IN YOUR RIFLE!
So now we know that at least in this case, H4350 produces more velocity than the RL19 does. I don't think there would be any way to safely get over 300 fps more with the 19.
I thought from muzzle blast and felt recoil that the RL 19 load was a faster load. Boy, was I surprised. I never would have thought the H4350 loads would be almost 400 fps faster. But, although this chronograph talks, I don't think it lied. Its a CED Millenium II. Pardon the crude record keeping but the chronograph doesn't have a printer. It does have a computer cable but I didn't hook it up.
Another thing I noticed was that the loads with RL19 ALL shot to the POA. The H4350 load shot almost 2 inches above POA. I think I'm gonna stop here and go with the H4350. The RL19 load is a max load at 45.5 and according to the manual I was using the H4350 load is a half a grain over max. Again, DON'T TRY THIS IN YOUR RIFLE!
So now we know that at least in this case, H4350 produces more velocity than the RL19 does. I don't think there would be any way to safely get over 300 fps more with the 19.