My experience with Reloder 25 is it is slightly slower burning than Rl26 in bigger cases.
I have two barrels now that love it.
30 Nolser with 200gr Berger Hybrid and 300wm with Berger 185 Hybrid.
The 30 Nolser is about 98% case fill. The 300wm is compressed at about 105% but this barrel...
Are you sure they're going thirty eight thousand fps?
I've loaded 130ttsx in 300wsm at 3500 fps with rl15 in a 24" barrel. I'm sure 300wm could top 3450 with out overpressure.
I have been wanting loading them in one of my 300wm for a long time, just haven't got around to it. I'd probably...
Maybe coincidence but my 7wsm loves Berger 150gr and Reloder 23 with gm210m primers.
However I bought a bunch of 8lb jugs of rl23 when it was $28 a pound, not $60 plus shipping, tax and hazmat lol.
" buy what you can when you can" is the very reason.
I'm fortunate enough to have slowly acquired many many years of components when prices were down because demand was down.
I only use standard rifle primers in all my WSM cartridges. Mostly GM210M.
I recently substituted 9 1/2m primers in place of 210M primers in a 300 wm. Lost 65 fps. In most primer tests involving 9 1/2 M primers I believe they are one of the mildest primers magnum or not. My results were in...
I just want everyone to realize that retail theft isn't absorbed by the retailer, that cost is handed down to the hard working, paying customers!
Not just at that location but also in your local Cabelas.
I simply can not believe that ammunition was allowed to be stolen!
What does anyone think...
"Officials believe the New Castle County location was targeted due to its "hands-off approach to shoplifting."
This is the problem, past cultures would cut off a hand for theft. Not anymore, criminals are coddled and protected. Fear of offending certain "people ".
His store has 8lb of rl16 ;
$430 ÷8 = $53.75 per lb.
Rl25 and rl19 are only in 5lb jugs.
$270 ÷ 5 = $54 per lb.
Just wanted to make this clear before you go on a road trip for 8lb of rl25 and19.
In all honesty I stopped buying reloading manuals. Nowadays I cross reference Hodgdon, Nosler, Speer, and /or Alliant all of which offers online data free. I'll still go to my old manuals occasionally if needed.
If you had a short action with a Wyatt's mag box you could definitely make maximum performance out of a thoated 270wsm that the 6.8 westerner could do. The wsm case is bigger to begin with.
Good accuracy!
I'm sure you know that you are NOT top gear with this bullet weight. However accuracy is king and your barrel will have a long life, and I'm sure your wife probably isn't as recoil numb as I am,lol.
Good job.
My advice is try a replacement. As FOTIS mentioned the Accurate version of imr4895 is A2495, and is cheaper.
Several years ago the number one powder across the benchrest world for 6BR Norma was Varget. Then one guy shot the smallest 600 yard group in an IBS sanctioned match with H4895 and no...