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Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Wc844 can be used in cast loads but works best in full case or mildly compressed loads. Loads that leave airspace in the case are not likely to do well in the accuracy department and may lead to...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Burn rate is slightly faster than herco in pretty much all loads. Best bet would be start with herco starting loads -5% and work up to herco max loads -5%. For the record, Herter's powders were...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
That looks like some I have seen before. In the early 90s there were a couple of re-sellers that were buying 55 gallon drums from Hodgdon and repackaging it in 4 and 8 lbs containers. May very well...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Short answer is no. At full case volumes you are only going to be in the 25k psi range and only burning roughly 65% of the charge in the barrel unless you have a 28 inch or longer barrel (rare on...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
5010 and H570 are kissing cousins so I'm not surprised your 270 data is right smack on speer's numbers.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
On the 325 WSM you would have to have the powder charge so compressed it would take ridiculous measures to do it to have an over pressure load using wc860. Basically it would take 90gr of WC860...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
This should get you started:
H570 Data From Hornady Handbook, 1979
.264 Winchester Magnum - Win. case, Rem. 9 ½ primer
140-gr. Spire Point - 71.3 to 76.0 grs. - 2900 to 3100 fps
160-gr. Round...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
H570 and H870 were basically the same burn rate powder in extruded and ball respectively. Both are 20mm WW II surplus and the extruded ran out way earlier than the ball. I think the last lot of...
I would warn against the Bushnell TRS-25 that others have recommended. And before I catch hell for it, there is a reason. On the latest batch of them they moved the emitter from the 4 o'clock...
Not all 1895s are microgroove - what year is your rifle? have you slugged the bore?
I'll tell on myself too since we are confessing our mistakes. I once grabbed a die set off the shelf to deprime and resize some 223 brass before cleaning and did 4 or 5 cases before I stopped and...
Realistically 16 is not the max when you are talking the pressure ceiling of the 30-06 cartridge. SAAMI lists the 30-06 at 60000 PSI and a 16gr load of unique behind a 155gr bullet is only going to...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
852 is a bit slow in the 45-70 regardless of which lot you have. The H414 lot is a bit more feasible than the 4831 lots but neither is great fodder for the 45-70 as it doesn't take well to loads...
I'm not debating the use of 460 data, I'm suggesting that a design meant for a smaller rimmed 7.62 is going to need some alteration to work properly with a cartridge that produces a larger case head...
I am getting numbers a shade below 2000fps with that using Quickload but without an OAL it is hard to tell what you would get. Here is what I ran.
7.7x58 Arisaka
.312 diameter 150gr lead bullet...
The process of working up a factory load has been pretty well stated above. What hasn't been explained is the part about with every gun being different how do they know what is safe.
The answer...
The upside to that brass is it makes it impossible to have a bullet seat deeper during recoil. The downside is it does have to be segregated and loaded with a much lower powder charge weight. I...
Forum: Military Rifles
Oddly enough, I'm going to take the opposite stance. I have run 25gr of 2400 through quickload using the 308 cartridge, a hornady 150gr SP (Catalog 3031) with an overall load length of 2.8 inches...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Most of the thinly plated bullets can be treated like cast for loading sake as they are not nearly as tough as a true jacketed round and that plating will strip off if abused. Berry generally warns...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
On the comment "I'd rather not buy a new barrel", Have you by chance priced a rebore lately? It may actually be more cost effective to replace the barrel than to rebore it. Last time I checked I...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I had a norinco m14 that would double or triple constantly. Trigger group from a GI gun cured it.
Quickload shows several powders that should reach 1450 from a 6" barrel when loading the 357 Magnum with the 125gr XTP but only 2 with the 158gr without going over SAAMI standard pressure. I think...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Cast bullet engineering 200gr has been my best with the NOE 316331 coming in 2nd.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |