30 06 and ramshot hunter powder

[tkeveney]

Looks like Ramshot hunter is finally available again. I am going to try some with the 168 grain ballistic tips.

Has anyone tried this combination before? Velocity is supposed to be pretty good.

Thanks

 

[DrMike]

Hunter is scarce in Canada. Every time I've found some, I snagged it. It is a great powder for "standard rifle cartridges.

 

[pharmseller]

My brother tried it once or twice.

Once he put a 168 NBT through the ear hole (hole, not ear) of a young bison. 160 yards or so, I filmed it.

Twice, this bull took three 168 NBT but it was dead after the first. He just needed convincing.

.30-06, 60 grains Hunter, WLRM primer.




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[Guy Miner]

P - You used magnum primers with Ramshot Hunter? Sure can't argue with your results...

I've only messed with Hunter a little, showed promise with 180 & 185 gr bullets, but I never finished developing that load. Can't remember off the top of my head if I used magnum primers or not...

Guy

 

[preacher]

I want to try Hunter in my 30-06 and hopefully some day some N560 in my .280!

 

[preacher]

Well! I just got back from an errand, dropped by the local Sports Warehouse and found BOTH Hunter and N560! I have been looking for this stuff locally for over a year! ha No H4350 though, but I have plenty of it.

 

[pharmseller]

P - You used magnum primers with Ramshot Hunter? Sure can't argue with your results...

I've only messed with Hunter a little, showed promise with 180 & 185 gr bullets, but I never finished developing that load. Can't remember off the top of my head if I used magnum primers or not...

Guy

I use WLRM with ball powders in both .30-06 (Hunter) and 7mm-08 (Big Game).

I'd post some money shots but they get repetitive.



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[Guy Miner]

Thanks.

 

[truck driver]

P - You used magnum primers with Ramshot Hunter? Sure can't argue with your results...

I've only messed with Hunter a little, showed promise with 180 & 185 gr bullets, but I never finished developing that load. Can't remember off the top of my head if I used magnum primers or not...

Guy

I use WLRM with ball powders in both .30-06 (Hunter) and 7mm-08 (Big Game).

I'd post some money shots but they get repetitive.



P

I have read where magnum primers do work best with ball powders but never paid much attention to it till I started loading CFE223 and found my best groups were with either the old Winchester ( white box) primers which are hot or CCI 250M.
I have tried the Federal mag primer yet though I do have a bunch of them on the shelf. I sent all my Winchester mag primers( blue box ) back due to them rupturing and Win replaced them.

 

[RiverRider]

TD, about those rupturing WLRMs...we're they brass colored cups or the nickel plated variety?

 

[truck driver]

TD, about those rupturing WLRMs...we're they brass colored cups or the nickel plated variety?

They were brass and came in the blue sleeve. It's been several years ago now when I was loading for my M700 classic 35 Whelen. The cup would rupture out the side.

 

[mwess1113]

I also use magnum primers with TAC, Hunter and Big Game. John Barsness recommended their use and wasn't wrong!


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[RiverRider]

That Barsness fellow...he knows stuff!

 

[pharmseller]

I also use magnum primers with TAC, Hunter and Big Game. John Barsness recommended their use and wasn't wrong!


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He's the one who suggested it to me.




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[efw]

That's my "one load to kill them all" for NA big game. I use WLRM primers & RP cases in a long throated rifle:

 

[tkeveney]

Thanks for all of your posts. I went back to Sportsman's warehouse to get the powder & they are out of it already.

At the rate Ramshot delivers product - we may not see it again for a while.

 

[pharmseller]

Thanks for all of your posts. I went back to Sportsman's warehouse to get the powder & they are out of it already.

At the rate Ramshot delivers product - we may not see it again for a while.

Have you looked for it online?





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[Guy Miner]

Just for something to do - a couple of years ago I started messing with Hunter and 185 gr Berger VLD bullets for a longish range .30-06 mule deer load. It showed promise, and I think I'll tinker with it some more. Maybe try the magnum primers for a change. Possibly use a Wilson bullet seater this time and Nosler brass..

Not sure it will do anything my proven loads will do, but now and again, particularly in winter, I do like to play around with loads.

Guy

 

[gerry]

What are the speeds you guys are getting out of Hunter in your 30-06's? There finally is some available here in Canada so I may get another 30-06 again.

 

[DON]

The little I did mess around with Hunter powder did show some promise!!

Rem. 700 30-06 22" barrel
Winchester cases
CCI 250 mag primers
165 Ballistic tips
Ramshot Hunter 59.0, 60.0 & 61.0
Lots of free bore, seated bullets length of magazine

Temps were high 70's to 80- degrees F.

Can't remember off hand which charge it was but think it was 60.0. Anyway, velocity was over 2950 fps with no pressure signs at all.

Don