Boy you must have a very short throat on your rifle or you are loading waaaaaaaaaaaaay off the lands. I load the 130 AccuBond in mine and with them 20 thousands off the lands the base of the bullet where the boat tail starts is even with where the neck and shoulder meet. I am loading Retumbo powder and average 3350 fps out of the 27 3/4" barrel with sub moa accuracy. The 130 AccuBond is one GREAT deer bullet. I have killed a dozen plus, lost count, deer with it from between 25 and a touch over 500 yards and all have been DRT. Bullet reacts the same no matter the yardage. Goes in takes out the vitals and exits with a quarter size hole. I have only recovered one bullet shot lengthwise into a buck at 111 yards. Bullet was against the smashed right ball socket of ham. Text book mushroom and retained weight was 87 grs.
My 264 has a 28 inch McGowen barrel.
My load with 130 ABs is 76 grs of WC872
It's a military ball powder used to load 50BMG.
Burn rate is about the same as discontinued H870
I paid $48.00 for an eight lb jug of it from Jeff Bartlett.
Fed 215
Win brass
It runs 3350 also and well under MOA as well.
I've run it to 3450 FPS but accuracy wasn't there.
I have never had a deer take a step either from 40 yards to 350.
Recover a bullet ?
Nope not yet.
One of my buddies shot a buck w it in Mo 2 years ago that was quartering to him at around 250.
Hit him at the neck shoulder junction and the bullet went out just inside the offside hindquarter below the tail.
