jason miller
Handloader
- Sep 4, 2012
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I managed to score some of the blems a couple weeks ago on SPS, and finally shot some of them last night. I loaded up 4 rounds(1 magazine full) of an established load for my rifle, 162 a-max and 46gr rl17, along with a couple sets of 4 with the 168. Unfortunately, I had a new scope on the rifle which I discovered has 5-6 inches of parallax at 200 yards, so groups weren't so good. But I did manage to get some velocity numbers. At 46 grains, the a-max load averaged 2763 fps. I've shot this load before with no pressure signs and very good groups. The 168's still didn't show any pressure signs, and averaged 2743 fps. I also managed to recover 3 of them from the dirt bank behind the target. They are all perfect mushrooms and retained 76.6, 82.1, and 85.3 grains.