quote[An exact load I have used before.
28.5 grs of IMR-4895 a fed 210 primer and the rest of the case filled with cotton towel dryer lint
The boolit was cast from clip on ww alloy and stick on ww alloy mixed 50-50 with .5% tin mixed in then water dropped from the mold and cured for a couple of weeks.
It gives me a velocity of 1950 to 1975 fps and is super accurate.]end quote
After reading this from runfiverun in a 308 thread I gave the load a try except I used dacron instead of lint. Works very well in my old JC Higgins 51-L with 311041 gas checked bullets that were water dropped from a guestimated alloy approximating Lyman #2. Sized 3095/.310 and tumble lubed with lee alox. These bullets were left over from use in a 30-30 that went down the road several years ago and had been on the back of the shelf ever since. When I sighted in, each group got better as the lube worked up the barrel and my concentration settled in. Last 100 yard group went 3 shots in 3/4".
Decided to stretch its legs a bit and started shooting at a gong a lazered 175 yards distant. never touched the thing. I decided to find out how much drop it had, so i put a big sheet of cardboard behind the gong and tried again. Got a decent 2 1/2" group with the 3rd shot wide from the other two, but it was 19" low and 5" right. Maybe there was more breeze than I thought!
I started wondering about the velocity, so I dug out my Pro Chrono and put 5 shots through it. Averaged 1740 so about 200 fps below r5r's number. It was a bright sunlite day with the sun nearly directly overhead so not the best of conditions.
I've slugged the barrel and it runs .310 so the bullets are a bit small and may not be sealing the bore too well, but can't holler about the accuracy. I haven't put a patch through it so don't know if it was leading.
Starting to wonder about this chrono