Pb4me
08-23-2015, 10:02 PM
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Today, my youngest son the new airplane mechanic, tried out the following load:
Rifle is a Ruger Hawkeye .30-06, almost new. Very few jacketed rounds fired from it.
Old Remington cases trimmed on Lee trimmer, primer pockets cleaned and flash hole uniformed with Lyman tool.
20.5 grains of 2400
Winchester standard primers
Boolit was Lee C309-200-R, cast from WW's and water dropped.
O.A.L. is 3.210"
Average velocity today was 1693 for one group and 1700 for another group. One group had a standard deviation of 6!!
Lube is straight beeswax. I got so sick of lube creeping out of our lube/sizer because it's been 100 to 105 degrees around here for days, I put straight beeswax in it. Had a little smoke and the bores out of two rifles looked like the hadn't been shot after several rounds of target shooting and shooting over the chrony.
Range is 103 yards (by the time the shooting cover was built it got a little long, slightly over 100 yards).
We didn't even measure the group. You can see it at the bottom of the diamond and about one inch to the right. This load happens to strike dead on at 50 yards after sighting in at a 100 yards with a standard jacketed load. It only drops slightly over 2 inches at 100 yards. You can just make out the three taped up holes shot with another brand of lead bullet cast the same way with the same load.
I know the straight beeswax sounds crazy but it works in this heat. I will not do that much longer as it is going to cool off and I will go back to something more standard or just cut the beeswax with something else. I've tried a lot of things for lube, including great recipes from this site. They work well and I've used them for years, they just get a little loose in this environment right now. Needless to say, we were a little happy. This load has shot well out of many .30 caliber rifles of various action types.
Incidentally, the man I buy the beeswax from is 95 and has been working bees for 80 years. He is finally quitting.
Today, my youngest son the new airplane mechanic, tried out the following load:
Rifle is a Ruger Hawkeye .30-06, almost new. Very few jacketed rounds fired from it.
Old Remington cases trimmed on Lee trimmer, primer pockets cleaned and flash hole uniformed with Lyman tool.
20.5 grains of 2400
Winchester standard primers
Boolit was Lee C309-200-R, cast from WW's and water dropped.
O.A.L. is 3.210"
Average velocity today was 1693 for one group and 1700 for another group. One group had a standard deviation of 6!!
Lube is straight beeswax. I got so sick of lube creeping out of our lube/sizer because it's been 100 to 105 degrees around here for days, I put straight beeswax in it. Had a little smoke and the bores out of two rifles looked like the hadn't been shot after several rounds of target shooting and shooting over the chrony.
Range is 103 yards (by the time the shooting cover was built it got a little long, slightly over 100 yards).
We didn't even measure the group. You can see it at the bottom of the diamond and about one inch to the right. This load happens to strike dead on at 50 yards after sighting in at a 100 yards with a standard jacketed load. It only drops slightly over 2 inches at 100 yards. You can just make out the three taped up holes shot with another brand of lead bullet cast the same way with the same load.
I know the straight beeswax sounds crazy but it works in this heat. I will not do that much longer as it is going to cool off and I will go back to something more standard or just cut the beeswax with something else. I've tried a lot of things for lube, including great recipes from this site. They work well and I've used them for years, they just get a little loose in this environment right now. Needless to say, we were a little happy. This load has shot well out of many .30 caliber rifles of various action types.
Incidentally, the man I buy the beeswax from is 95 and has been working bees for 80 years. He is finally quitting.