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    The Hornady page for 55g 22-250
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    Thankyou gentlemen

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    Got out to the shed early this morning and put these first 9 handloads together.

    Once fired brass (fired by me)
    ADI 2208 powder
    Federal large rifle primers
    55gr Sierra Blitzking boat tails

    Hopefully get out and test them this week, started at the recommended minimum for powder at 34gr.
    I didn't have a ammo holder so knocked this one up quickly (don't laugh).

    Thanks everyone for the advice so far.
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    Im not laughing at all......find larger piece and knock up decent loading block with say 45 holes in it...make it deep enough that case wont fall out and tight enough they dont tip sideways...why 45 ???? so you can load fourty at once and move case over a whole column/row each time,easier to keep track of where you are up too. I recently bought some spade bits for just this reason and now have 223 block....308---270 block and 45/70 blocks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Happy Jack View Post
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    Got out to the shed early this morning and put these first 9 handloads together.

    Once fired brass (fired by me)
    ADI 2208 powder
    Federal large rifle primers
    55gr Sierra Blitzking boat tails

    Hopefully get out and test them this week, started at the recommended minimum for powder at 34gr.
    I didn't have a ammo holder so knocked this one up quickly (don't laugh).

    Thanks everyone for the advice so far.
    Greetings Happy Jack,
    My loading blocks are made from 12 mm particle board with holes drilled right through, fifty holes per block. A 1/2 inch or 13 mm spade bit is ideal for the job and use a drill press if you have one. Next tack on a base of 4.5 mm hardboard or whatever over some PVA glue. I have made up two blocks each for the three case head sizes I use. I have found these great as they don't take too much space when stacked in my shelves. Being a bit on the OCD side mine were also clear finished.
    Regards Grandpamac.
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    ahummmm 2208= VARGET

    so rather than starting at minimum....you have started .6 of a grain below MAXIMUM......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    ahummmm 2208= VARGET

    so rather than starting at minimum....you have started .6 of a grain below MAXIMUM......
    Greetings Micky,
    34 grains is the start load in the Hodgdons data for Varget for the 55 grain in the .22.250. 36.5 grains is their max. My son has used the 36.5 grain load with good results and book velocity. Hodgdons gets even better velocity from 8208. The Hornady data is a lot lower for both powders. Hodgdons lists max of 35.8 grains for 8208. I usually go with the powder manufacturer first for loads and the projectile manufacturer for the non standard type projectiles. I always check multiple sources for data where I can.
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    I just looked at chart above,THATS WHERE it says 34.6 is max..........pretty sure our man be fine...but after recent balls up...Im a bit trigger shy.
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    @Happy Jack those blitzkings when you get graduate on to game with your new loads do the damage. Bits of animal go flying everywhere.

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    That's a great block.
    When you want to reload more at once, go for 50 because that's the size of a lot of cartridge boxes and about as much as you can reload in a long evening.

    This is rimu with linseed oil and a thin plywood back. An hour's work for me and I've used it for years.
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    Being a builder I used what was lying around in the shed, just done on the drill press with a twist drill as didn't want to go rummaging in the work van for my other drills. Will make something better when I have the time.

    34gr was the minimum load in the ADI manual I have for my calibre, being my first time I was wary of going up to the max load straight away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    I just looked at chart above,THATS WHERE it says 34.6 is max..........pretty sure our man be fine...but after recent balls up...Im a bit trigger shy.
    Looking at the Hornady loads they seem to generally lower than the Hodgdon / ADI loads. They do not list the 55 grain GMX but perhaps they are toned down just in case they get used for it anyway. Perhaps the GMX is on a different sheet.
    Regards Grandpamac.

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    @granpamac just fired off those 9 projectiles today finally.

    All went well, at least they all went bang anyway and nothing got broken apart from the target.

    Did forget my sandbag and it was a reasonable wind blowing so not really a true test.

    My question is with those projectiles and I safely go up to the 36.5gr max load or am I better backing off from that. I ask because those Blitzkings are on the ADI chart, the nearest 55gr Sierra on the chart is soft point so being new I don't know how that equates.

    I won't post my results they were not that good in the circumstances.

    Thanks

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    mate..if you go back 20ish years...load data was for grain weight of projectile ONLY....take from that what you will.......for me,it means pretty much any cup n core of same weight will be fine...monos are a little bit different but I still use data as base line...

 

 

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