Thebear_78
Handloader
- Sep 30, 2004
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Due to the difficulty I have been having finding some of my old standby powders I have been working up some various loads to use with more readily available powder. I have traditionally used H4350 with the Barnes 270gr TSX. I happen to have an 8lb jug of H414 and was looking to work up a load with this powder as I have a good supply of it.
After consulting a few manuals last night I set up the dies and loaded up a couple of loads.
I loaded up both 270gr TSX and 260 AccuBond. The best load I tried with the TSX was 92.0 gr of H414 with 270gr TSX. Five shot average over the chrony was 2953fps and shot this group at 100yards. Settled on this load for the TSX.
I was feeling pretty good about the TSX load until I tried the AccuBond. I had only loaded up 5 of them at 92.0gr and the first three shot this group at 100 yards, averaging right at 3005fps.
I was pretty blown away by this group. I took what I had left and tried them out at 300 yards. The two top left are the remaining 2 accubonds and the three lower are 270gr TSX. Pretty sure I threw that one to the left. I was pretty shot out by the end of the shooting session.
After consulting a few manuals last night I set up the dies and loaded up a couple of loads.
I loaded up both 270gr TSX and 260 AccuBond. The best load I tried with the TSX was 92.0 gr of H414 with 270gr TSX. Five shot average over the chrony was 2953fps and shot this group at 100yards. Settled on this load for the TSX.
I was feeling pretty good about the TSX load until I tried the AccuBond. I had only loaded up 5 of them at 92.0gr and the first three shot this group at 100 yards, averaging right at 3005fps.
I was pretty blown away by this group. I took what I had left and tried them out at 300 yards. The two top left are the remaining 2 accubonds and the three lower are 270gr TSX. Pretty sure I threw that one to the left. I was pretty shot out by the end of the shooting session.
