brewer12345
04-05-2018, 05:24 PM
Had a lengthy range day working with a jacketed and a cast bullet in 3006. Never loaded a jacketed rifle round before yesterday. I tested 6 jacketed loads and all but one would be dead deer to 300 yards.
Cast has been another story. The previous try with this bullet I tried 6 or 8 loads and had complete failure. This time I tried a different seating depth and a different powder and.tested 8 loads. Four were accurate and two were also powerful enough to be 150 yard deer loads.
You definitely have to want to tinker and.shoot to develop cast rifle loads. Then again, the jacketed bullets cost ten times what the cast do.
Cast has been another story. The previous try with this bullet I tried 6 or 8 loads and had complete failure. This time I tried a different seating depth and a different powder and.tested 8 loads. Four were accurate and two were also powerful enough to be 150 yard deer loads.
You definitely have to want to tinker and.shoot to develop cast rifle loads. Then again, the jacketed bullets cost ten times what the cast do.