Thread: What Have You Loaded Today

Originally Posted by Ground Control

My 6x45 ( 6mm - 223 ) is actually my favourite Rifle I’ve ever owned.
I’m interested in knowing what your Load / Projectile / Powder combo is and what you use it for

H335, 75gr Sierra HP @ approx 3000fps. Used for last 5-6 years on deer, goats & pigs up to about 300m.

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Originally Posted by Mathias

H335, 75gr Sierra HP @ approx 3000fps. Used for last 5-6 years on deer, goats & pigs up to about 300m.

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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

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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Well today I had a first in 30 plus years of reloading, a real oops.

I had 20 rounds each of 22 CM and 6mm CM to do. That combination sorta requires you keep your wits about you as they look very similar in every way.

I load both with 2209, one gets 41.5 and the other 43.0. See why I was being so careful I really fucked up!

Yup I loaded them both with 2208 instead of 2209. Got to the range and the first 6mm round blew a primer. My first thought was I'd set the scales wrong, so stupidly I tried a 22 CM. Same result. When I've dropped the powder into them I always visually check the powder level and I had spotted that it was a bit different at that stage but didn't do anything about it. So the holes in the swizz cheese lined up. Fortunately no damage done except to two cases and my pride. . . But it could have ended less well!

No photos but loaded up some 80gr Hammer hht’s with reloder 19 for the 22 creed…
Hopefully goes better than yours @Tentman

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.

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"???

Originally Posted by Shearer

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

Correct, its 1.75" high at 100m

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

@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.