What did you do in the reloading room today?

[sierracharlie338]

Nice shootin @jjohnsonElknewbie

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Nice shootin @jjohnsonElknewbie

Thank you sir!

 

[Trr15]

100 rounds of .308 win, 10 rounds .375 H&H (300gr Accubonds)

 

[wind gypsy]

Thank you and I appreciate the feedback. All of the load dev for this rifle has been on hot Iowa summer days with high humidity, so hopefully temp. influence has already showed itself. If its 80+ degrees with 60+% humidity in WY on 11/23, we've got bigger problems! J/K and thanks again.

Temperature aside, you could get water in your chamber and have issues in short order as well. If primers are falling out of pockets on Alpha OCD brass you're pretty dang hot and 0.2 isn't going to move the needle much.

 

[Slick8]

I told myself I wasn't going to test the 300 Bergers. Well I did and I'm happily regretting it

I loaded 90.5-92 based on ladder results and tested at 300 today. That's a 1 inch aiming dot for reference.

I'll be validating this next week after returning from a family trip to Savanah GA.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Temperature aside, you could get water in your chamber and have issues in short order as well. If primers are falling out of pockets on Alpha OCD brass you're pretty dang hot and 0.2 isn't going to move the needle much.

Thank you for the feedback, and I'll remember that. The primer I had come loose the other day I'm almost certain was due to a case being misaligned in the shell holder and the primer "crunching" in when I seated it (Redding press "swing arm" priming approach). It looked fine externally, but this is my best guess. If that ever happens again while priming, it will be a no go for that round.

 

[WestTN2288]

Loaded 40 rounds of .22arc with 88gr eld-m, Lapua once fired brass and CCI 450 primers.

10 are 30.1 grs. N550.
10 are 30.4 grs. N550.

10 are 29.5 grs. LeverEvolution.
10 are 29.8 grs. LeverEvolution.

Used a Lee Six Pack Pro and weighed the charges with an AutoTrikler V4.

Interested to see your numbers just shot a little over 28gr of 550 with 88s yesterday and got good results

 

[FLS]

Started working up a load with 120 Partitions and RL 23 for my 25-06. This rifle is a laser with 115 Berger’s and 115 Nosler BTs.
This is a new powder and bullet for me and so far the results have been underwhelming. Lower than expected velocities and poor accuracy.

 

[pbroski]

Interested to see your numbers just shot a little over 28gr of 550 with 88s yesterday and got good results

Rifle is a 22" bolt gun. All are from 10 rounds. Groups are at 100 yards. Bullets are about .023" from touching.

30.1 grs. N550 - Avg-2895, ES-32, SD-9.5. 1.265".



30.4 grs. N550 - Avg-231, ES-24, SD-6.7. 1.204".



29.5 grs. Lever - Avg-2883-ES-17, SD-5.5. 1.070".



29.8 Lever - Avg-2925, ES-33, SD-9.9. 1.521".



Next, I'm going to load 20 with 29.5 grs. Lever, 10 will be .020 from touching and 10 will be .017" to see if this rifle/load combo can be improved with an adjustment in seating depth.

 

[WestTN2288]

Very nice.

I’m shooting an AR with an 18in barrel, so a little slower, but the best speeds I have gotten with the 88 have been using n550 and Superformance. 2700 is the best I can do with that bullet though