Nice to meet you Dan, that helps and I'm glad you joined the conversation. I seated some last night. I ended up seating back .030 as I went a little to deep for .020. Mag has about .050-.070 clearance and chambered fine with 1 rd in and out. I too trimmed to minimum. Its pretty nasty out...
Update chamber is pretty short. To jam Im seeing 3.315 as max bullet lenth available on the oryx or 2.791 with hornady 30 cal bullet comparator.
Going to start with 54.5 gr H4350 powder and CCI large rifle magnum primers. Start seating .020 off my version of jam. From there I plan to work up...
I'm good on my bolt actions, loaded those in the fall, working on the BAR in 30-06 with the Oryx bullet. Gonna use it for spring bear if I draw and the 7mag for longer shots.
Will do thank you
Good luck out there. I love the model 70 action I have an extreme weather ss in 300wsm love it. I would like to try some Alliant powders but first I must hit the lottery lol.
30-06 180gr Oryx with With Ramshot Hunter or H4350. All I have in large rifle primer is Remington. But do have lot of magnum primer options if that is better.
Hello forum, I have a few question on the loading of my BAR which was made in factory with 18.5" barrel on a short run for LL COTE. My plan is to load the 180gr Oryx bullet. First off I would like to thank you alls in advance and introduce myself as I've learned alot here reading posts and...