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Have you checked the COAL or base to ogive on the factory loads compared to your handloads? ABLR's can be finicky at times with seating depth, often preferring to be seated deeper than normal cup and core bullets.

I still can't get over those G3's!

I have a couple pounds of N565 to try in my 6.5 & 7 PRC's. N565 has consistently been getting rave reviews for accuracy and velocity in those cartridges and others. It has a decoppering agent and is suppose to be temp stable. IIRC all their newer powders have the decoppering agent.

I'll second what Johnly said about annealing. With the 6.5-270 JDJ, it was a big change from the parent case and annealing was the only way to not lose a bunch. There's very little change from parent to formed case in the 338-06. Maybe just try forming a few and if you start losing cases, then...

With my 6.5-270 JDJ, I used a top load from the 270, jammed a long bullet in the lands and just got some good trigger time. Every fire form load I tried was accurate and I hunted with them, shooting deer & hogs. I think I'd only do the COW method if accuracy was really bad.

The 142gr ABLR is an excellent deer bullet too.

I'll be watching this thread closely. I'm interested to see how Weatherby fixes/handles this and to see what it takes to stump FOTIS in load development.

I'm dreading a move to hopefully a new house in the spring. Not just because moving sucks, but because I will have to move 40+ years of reloading equipment & supplies! I inherited my dad's stuff and have steadily added to it over the years. It doesn't help that all this stuff is heavy as crap!

You're wasting no time putting the new rifle to use!

I agree, if a load isn't safe in hot weather, then there's no place for it in my rotation. My deer season can be 100+ degrees or in the teens. I need a load that works in any temp I'm likely to encounter.

Excellent work!

I went out to my hunt club today with my BIL and we got into some wood ducks. I got my limit and he knocked down two but only found one. We had a blast, even in the rain. Hoping to go again in a few days.

I've heard very good things about the 127 LRX and grabbed a box for my 6.5 PRC to try in the future. So many good 6.5 bullets!

Sounds like a scope or scope mount issue. Just to try it, have you fired a known good load through it?

Nice job and a helluva shot! Hopefully you will have many more pistol kills in your future.

Hell yeah, nice work. Load?

Awesome, looking good! I'm loving my Accumark in 257 Wby. Hoping to take it to Alabama at the end of January for a whitetail hunt. How's the gen 2 Leupold?

Np, I just wanted to make sure we were on the right track. The 170gr Partition RN is designed for the 30-30. Between that and being a round nose design, it will be a shorter bullet and require different seating depths. It would probably be a good 300 Blackout/Whisper bullet too.

I'm a little confused, this is posted in the .358 forum but you're talking about the 30 cal Partition? Just seat it deeper. You're also loading the 170gr Partition designed for the 30-30 in a 30-06. So you will need to adjust seating depth to work in your cartridge and rifle.

Seeing the copper in a new barrel isn't fun, but how is it shooting? If it's shooting just fine, I wouldn't get too hung up on it.