Thread: What Have You Loaded Today

Originally Posted by Ground Control

I’m throwing a Sierra 85 gr hpbt at 2865 fps with H2206 .
Haven’t shot many Critters with it yet , but all that have touched had not moved far .
It just just shoots “Dots “ without any load development, truth is I could probably improve on it’s already impressive accuracy but why bother .
It amazes me that it , or a version of it wasn’t/ hasn’t been adopted by a major manufacturer over the years .
I just haven’t used my .223 much since getting it and it’s crossed my mind a few times as to why I still have my .223

Those 85gr Sierra hpbt shot well in mine too. I got over 2900fps with CFE223 without too much pressure sign. Just stuck to the 75gr as they were way easier to source.

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Originally Posted by Shearer

36gns of 2208. I haven't chronographed it yet but GRT recons 2038.5fps from my 16" barrel.
I shot some this morning and the seem very accurate.
Note. They make 2 different 30cal 160gn FTX. These are #30396.

The jacket of a 160gn FTX recovered from a reasonable sized boar shot at 30m. Obviously still expand well even with the low MV.

7mm PRC, 175 gn Berger, RL 26, 0.1 gn intervals from 67.8 to 68.7... This is a second batch after a coarser set identified a sweet spot between 68 and 68.5 gns.

Annealed, FL resized with LE wilson die and 0.310" neck sizing die... may need to go up another 0.001"... no expander ball.

Not yet happy with concentricity... may invest in a Forster FL die with a custom neck hone job.

6.5 prc with RL25 59.3grn 147 eldm 2930 fps new barrel.anyone else use RL 25?

Loaded up some more .44-40 cartridges.
Jacketed XTP bullets with 26 grains 2207 smokeless, gets 1400 fps with a 200 grain XTP bullet. This is mightily progressive using these copper jacketed bullets. All of the deer I have shot with the .44-40 so far have been with blackpowder and pure lead bullets, so I expect this modern technology to make an exceptional difference...

I discovered this week that loading lead bullets with chefade and beeswax as lube, over smokeless loads does not work out so well long term - I fired some rounds I made up over a year ago - they went Fsst! pop - one actually made a LuuuuUUUUp noise, which was literally teh noise a bullet makes as it is pushed through the bore! They went through the chronograph and get results of around 300 fps. I dicided I should stop shooting them or I was going to get a bullet stuck in the barrel!

Turns out the fat/cheafe has melted at some stage and run down and contaminated the 2207 powder. So it was only ignited a bit of powder around the primer and the rest was in the bore and action. The bullet was just popping out of the muzzle.

So, now I only load jacketed with smokeless and lead with black powder ( compressed BP is not a powder will not be contaminated in the same way - it becomes a solid cake and is as hard as wood.)

I topped up my supply for the T4.

Originally Posted by Hunter_Nick

Nice nice! What speed have you got the 80s skidding along at? My pick is you’ll see bugger all difference between zero and 250yds. The 22-204 will start stepping away after that, better in the wind too

As you said Nick, beyond 250m these things were amazing. I shot about 60 goats with the 80gr ELDM from 25m to 337m. The 300m+ kills were mostly instant, with pass through and nasty exit wounds on big billy's. Light winds across gullies not an issue, just hold bang on is what I found. The 6x45 accounted for the balance of my 133 tally for the 4 days. Hmmm the dilemma...what do I take out next time.

Getting ready for the silly season on hares. Some of this federal brass is on its 8th firing. Will probably switch to WRE primers, they're tighter fit aren't they?

Quick test before dinner

That's got to be smaller than 1.75"???

It might be just my batch, but I find federal brass primer pockets loosen faster than the other brass I use

Originally Posted by Shearer

That's got to be smaller than 1.75"???

Correct, its 1.75" high at 100m

@blip I'm sure there'll be some that get binned this time around. Have to say though it's been a good brass for me. Haven't seen any on the shelves in a long time.

Ready for ai

Originally Posted by madjon_

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Ready for ai

30 06 ai ? If so it's a ripper cartridge