felix lube and velocity??

[jhalcott]

thank you C-man, I'll shoot a cat for you this spring!!

[9.3X62AL]

Larry--

THAT was the kind of info I was seeking to hear. THANK YOU! Intended bullet will be the Nosler 140 Partition, so after seeing where things go with Hornady and Speer 140's, I'll back up a bit and re-try with those expensive critters. It would be truly cool if some combo using WC-860 or WC-872 could achieve 2700 FPS.

I share your view that the M-96 is stronger than its reputation gives it--I just think the Ruger 77 is stronger yet.

[StarMetal]

.....and the T38 Arisaka is stronger still further. I never thought of the 96's as a weak action. You can count on the Swedes using good materials to make their, probably same for Mauser too. Don't forget guys that the velocities in my 260 are with a 1-9 twist. That's makes it a tad easier. I had to lengthen my throat so keep from seating 140 grains too deep, a problem that you two don't have with a 96 Swede. I shot a deer a year ago with my 260 using a Remington bullet that I loaded over a healthy dose of 4895. I recovered the bullet to. Being it was a slightly angling shot parallet to the deers body the bullet traveled about the whole lenght of the deers body and I cut it right out of under the hide in the left rear ham.

Joe

[waksupi]

OKAY< OKAY, so lets get back to the subject! CAN fwfl go 2500 + in a 7mm or 30 caliber RIFLE? this inquiring mind wants to know BEFORE starting with it! I have 120 to 174 Cast in 7mm.Also on hand are about 6 .30 molds from a 115 to 200 grains,all GC types.

There ya go, trying to herd ferrets again!
I have shot .30 calibers to 2450 with no leading at all, and very good accuracy. In the .223, I've reached around 2780 fps, no leading, and 1.5" groups when I hold my mouth right.

[Rick4570]

+ 1 on the strength of the Swede. Last year my brother accidently used 44.4 gr of IMR 4895, instead of our standard 44.4 of IMR 4350 with a Hornady 129 gr. SP. Thats nearly 5 grains over max in my Hornady book! Anyway, we were shooting a battle rifle match, and he had run about 15 of those loads through his '96 before he figured something was up. He said the recoil was a little stouter than he'd remembered and extraction was just a little sticky, what caught his attention was the absence of primers in the fired brass. And, he still had a group going of about 2 inches! Don't believe he did any damage, as normal loads don't show any excess stretching upon firing. I have now idea what kind of pressure that Swede took, but she apparently wasn't fazed.
Regards, Rick