Thread: First Hunt - GSP/Lab

Awesome start, dont get lulled into a false sense of security though. Seems the first few hunts can go well and then when they develop some confidence they can decide they don"t need the bumbling human.... just be aware and consistent and you'll have an awesome dog!

What charge of h335 is that? I'd agree with the others that it looks like a low impact velocity, I'd have expected far more expansion.

Originally Posted by Hunty1

Awesome start, dont get lulled into a false sense of security though. Seems the first few hunts can go well and then when they develop some confidence they can decide they don"t need the bumbling human.... just be aware and consistent and you'll have an awesome dog!

What charge of h335 is that? I'd agree with the others that it looks like a low impact velocity, I'd have expected far more expansion.

Yep, nah training never stops. And she's only young so well aware that I'll be intensive training for another year yet! Nice to have as good a start as I could have hoped for though.

When you say "far more expansion" do you mean to the bottom of the hollow part, or what? I don't know much about things, but I suspect asking a monolithic to expand beyond the hollow centre is probably about as good as asking Flo to pick up the rifle and shoot the deer for me too. Penetration depth would have been over 1m so maybe it just didn't hit any significant bone? I'm not sure.

According to my handy dandy notebook, that's 44.5g H335 (45g gives me a nice, sticky bolt on a warm day). I've shot out to 350 on paper with the drops suggesting approx 2900 is correct, but I do get big variations in velocity with H335 (AR2206H is more consistent). I was going to have a fiddle around with CFE223 until I realised that both CFE223 and the pills are currently on backorder.

Any thoughts/advice much appreciated - I'm pretty new to reloading.