What did you do at the range today?

[Steve300xcw]

Been working on double taps. Both with the AR and handgun. Not really something Ive ever done much of. Seeing progress though.

Actually paid attention to which mags were an issue, and was able to cull 3 of them.

XS sights on the M&P are sighted in and a big upgrade.

Also broke it

 

[UnckleBob]

I tested some loads for my Tikka 243. Dead Air Nomad 30 can.
I got off about 35 shots of various ammo. It was hot and the mirage off the can.
- Herter 100g SP - surprisingly adequate velocity and accuracy. I picked up a box on a lark.
- Federal Fusion 100g - .75" roughly equilateral triangle - I would not hesitate to use it on a hunt.
- 95g Accubond handloads - 3k fps - 1" horizontal string - will retest with cold barrel. Priority bullet in my load plan for the rifle.
- 95g Berger Handloads - 3k FPS - .9" triangle - good load to have in my pocket, but not a bullet I plan to use hunting anytime soon.

I tested some loads on my 280AI (20" barrel) -AB Raptor 8 Can. Nothing dramatic. It like 140g TTSX the best, but the 160g Partition loads showed some promise before they went to pot. It turned out the can worked loose, but I forgot my oven mitt to fix it.

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

Well well well ... 5 rounds tt 54 yards isn't enough to totally convince me, but... 52.5 through 55.5 grains of H4350 behind a 180 AccuBond in the new Shilen 30-06 barrel... Looks promising. The 55.5 load had a big velocity jump from the others, and was the lone flier.

Anyway, maybe I finally own a gun that doesn't hate H4350!


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And this is why sample size matters... from the 5 round pressure work-up group, you'd think that bullet, that powder, etc would shoot great, right? You'd be wrong. Sample size of 10 at the real range. Awful. SD/ES was even pretty good, but the accuracy was s**t.

The streak continues - H4350 hates me.

 

[Chris in TN]

Nothing but .22lr yesterday.

Shot the Tikka 223 at 225 and 400 just now. The more I shoot .223 at these medium distances the more I enjoy it.

 

[Kauaihunter]

Zeroing in a new scope and found a 300 Win Mag round in a box of 7mm Rem Mag. Emailed the pic to Remington with the Lot number.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Zeroing in a new scope and found a 300 Win Mag round in a box of 7mm Rem Mag. Emailed the pic to Remington with the Lot number.

Yikes!

 

[RockAndSage]

A few hundred rounds into a session with the Staccato C, and this one lit off - heard a pop and quick hiss, and had smoke coming from the chamber area. Thought it was some sort of weird hangfire at first because of the amount and duration of the smoke, but turned out it was a reversed primer.

Didn't ignite the powder, but the priming compound sent enough hot particulate into the grease to have it smoking for a few seconds. Opened it up after a minute and the lube was still plentiful and wet, but this cartridge popped out - with that reversed primer. Was concerned about fouling in the firing pin channel, but it ran another couple of hundred rounds for the remainder of the session. These were reman loads - have had a couple over the years turn up like this, but this was the first one I didn't catch in loading mags...was a bit surprised it actually ignited:

 

[Chris in TN]

Zeroing in a new scope and found a 300 Win Mag round in a box of 7mm Rem Mag. Emailed the pic to Remington with the Lot number.

"Now with more wallop in every box!"