Wow, most illustrative.
Scrap.... because all the really pithy and emphatic four letter words were taken and we had to describe this source of casting material somehow so we added an "S" to what non casters and wives call what we collect.
Kind of hard to claim to love America while one is hating half the Americans that disagree with you. One nation indivisible requires work.
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Great job. Now you need to check if 38.5 and 39.5 are good to, if its not over max. Go right in the middle and you will have a great load no mater what temp it is. Lower temp = lower pressure. So if you can find a load that the gun likes around 39 you should be golden.
Will do, I was just trying to figure out pressure signs and I’m glad to say even at 40.6grn I still had blowback on the case neck and very rounded primers, I may try 42 and 43 to just see if that’s another accuracy node or not. I am trying to get around 24-2500fps just to see if I can do it, that’s the whole reason I got this whopping $170 rifle is to see if I can get some decent high speed with the 1/12 twist. I’ll stick to around 2000fps for hunting around eastern Ky that’s all you need I can shoot up to 700 yards on my farm but I don’t I limit cast boolits to 250 yards if the boolit is going 2000fps and under 250 if it’s below 2000
I shot many deer with a .30-30 bullet loaded in a .308 case, and I ran the pressure/velocity to where it was basically a .30-30+P.
it was a mauser barrelled in .308.
If you load a 150gr cast to 30-30 speeds, then you what about the same thing I was loading........it is deadly on Bambi's.
I agree 100%.
My favorite load in my 30-30 is the Lee 150F, gas-checked, over 25 gr of 3031. Deadly accurate.
I recently found a Mauser 98 re-barrelled to 308 for a ridiculously low price. For giggles I decided to try the same load, The Lee 150F over 25 gr of 3031. The results were 1 1/4" groups all day long at 100 yards.
I stopped there.
Steve in N CA
What’s the velocity of that 25 grn of Imr3031?
Have found the same thing with several different rifles....
This was a Remington LTR .308....
Load was a Federal case, CCI BR primer, Sierra 168 MK and Winchester 748 powder:
45.0
45.5
46.0
46.5
47.0
A Remington 700 SF in .257 Weatherby did the same thing with Reloader 25 and a 120 Speer BT. Started at about 1 moa and shrank down to .3 moa and then the groups started opening up...
From left to right the groups keep shrinking until they blow back open with group 5 all the way to the right...
...every gun has a sweet spot for a certain bullet....
Bob
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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 |