beemer
02-23-2009, 10:55 PM
I had just finished patching some Lee 180 gr. boolits to .314 for my 91/30 and noticed a few Speer 180 RN bullets I had left over from my 303. I loaded 8 of the paper patch and the 8 Speer bullets with the same load. I used a load of 40 grs. of 4064 and a .5 ball of dacron. Both were seated with the bullet base at the base of the neck.I have used similar loads in the rifle before so I had an idea what it would do with the PP. The jacketed went into 2 5/8 for 5 shots at 100 yds, the PP went into 2 1/2 for 4 shots, I pulled one big time and called it so I didn't count it. The elevation was about the same but the windage with the PP was 2 in. to the left. The rest were ran across the Chrony, thats whats interesting. The jacketed was about 2140 fps and the PP was 140 fps faster.
The bore was clean so I fired the PP first, cleaned the bore and fired the copper. I always like to spot the first shot out of a clean bore just to learn the quriks of the rifle. The primers looked the same and I couldn't tell any diference firing them. I will probably try it again to see if it was a fluke. Not really a detailed test but fun.
beemer
The bore was clean so I fired the PP first, cleaned the bore and fired the copper. I always like to spot the first shot out of a clean bore just to learn the quriks of the rifle. The primers looked the same and I couldn't tell any diference firing them. I will probably try it again to see if it was a fluke. Not really a detailed test but fun.
beemer