Looks like a good start.
Hopefully you can try these loads again on a cooler day and get chrony data, and hopefully better results and info to judge by.
9 out 10 times, it is not the arrow, it is the Indian! (Or you can substitute the arrow with bullet, and the Indian with cowboy.)
You pulled the trigger = you produced the group!
They just helped you get the tool to do the work with.
As a kid growing up on the Fraser River for a few years, I got to fish for Dollies for a few summers. As I mainly fished th feeder streams, I caught more small dollies, but got see some of the big ones in the clear waters of the streams entering the muddy Fraser waters. We only ever caught a...
Being back here with my laptop, sitting in the hospital with plenty of free time each day could be dangerous...
I found a new, unfired, Remington 870 Wingmaster in 28 ga for sale online here in Canada, and ended up buying it! (There was another used one in pretty nice shape for sale too, but I...
I have read a couple of notes in a couple of hunting magazines, about the 257 AI (Improved) that Hornady is supposedly working on.
This is also intriguing to me, and I have already decided that I will be looking to build one next year.
I will be looking for a LH long action rifle in 25-06 or 270...
Just trying to recall the simple annealing process used by some prior to annealing machines...IIRC
Place your cases in a cake pan with water up close to the shoulder, heat until red (or almost red) with a torch, and then tip them over in the water to cool...or at least something close to...
Nothing wrong with reviving an old thread...most topics just never really die...and we must encourage recruitment of new hunters and shooters into this past time to help keep it alive, and of nothing else, educate the non-hunting public in a positive way.
Is anyone else offering 375 Ruger brass?
Peterson, Starline, Lapua, etc.
I know that I too would appreciate another source for the 376 Steyr...but as it a relatively an unknown cartridge I will make do with Hornady cases for now, which are working. I do have a decent supply on hand that should...
Bit of a funny story...
When we arrived at the hospital after the accident, Tersa (the outfitter's wife) asked the emergency staff to get us a wheelbarrow to help Susan and I out of the truck and into the emergency room. She actually said it twice, and after the second time Susan asked her if...
A friend has a 338 Win Mag that he loads a 200 gr Speer bullet in at a mild velocity that is quite nice to shoot in his Browning BBR. I just do not recall what his load and powder choice is at the moment.
Nosler lists H414 with starting loads for their 200 gr bullets at 67.0 gr for 2753 fps, so...
I am in a similar boat, but it has been many years since I have reloaded brass more than 4-5 times (was with Norma brass in my second 6.5.x55) ...may look into it for more shooting in the future as I play with the new 25 CM.
Was just reading an article in a magazine about steelhead fishing on northern Vancouver Island...still a bucket list adventure for me. Need to try steelhead someday soon! Should be tasty too!
You should try your 338-06 on the deer too...as you said to "spread the love"!
It is a thumper on whitetails and you should find that it will create less meat damage than you may expect. Even in some cases where you eat up to the hole. (An attribute that many enjoy; just not sure if this as...
The more you work your case, by necking up, and then reload for multiple firings, without annealing, is going to work harden your brass and make it prone to splitting (but this is not to say that some brass begins life harder from one brand to another make). If you were not necking up brass you...
When I built my Sako in 338 Federal, at first it would not shoot at all; 3" groups plus.
The gunsmith got a new reamer with different throat dimensions that cleaned up the issue. Apparently a common problem. It now shoots 4 out of 5 factory loads sub-MOA. Still need to develop a load with the...