For what its worth. Got to the range a bit today and yesterday and got to push my 22.5" tikka a bit with some re 17 including some e-tip. Here are the results..looks like the 180 e tip does make a bit more pressure than other bullets.
There is some pretty good vel here...I wish someone could get this stuff pressure tested....I had no signs of pressure including pocket expansion.
150 etip, 58.5 3017fps...looked accurate but need to retry.
150 tsx 60.0 3100fps 2.75" at 200 yds.
155 nos comp 58.5 2924 very accurate
180 horn bt 55.5 2742 not a great group
180 horn bt 56.2 2805 maybe good..too much sidewind
180 nos bt 56.5 2820 shot good..too much wind no signs
of pressure, same brass as tsx above.
Prime pockets still tight.
180 etip 52.5 2710 looks like in comparison to hornady
load above this thing needs about
2.5 grains less powder for samespeed
Again...my intent was to push things a bit. I have been using quick load as a guide. Even though my ql has re17 in it's library if I use I4350 as the powder it matches my data to a "T".
None of my loads are probably over65K at a worse case scenario and may be well below....just don't know if there is magic in this re17 as testers reported at 6mmbr website.
There is some pretty good vel here...I wish someone could get this stuff pressure tested....I had no signs of pressure including pocket expansion.
150 etip, 58.5 3017fps...looked accurate but need to retry.
150 tsx 60.0 3100fps 2.75" at 200 yds.
155 nos comp 58.5 2924 very accurate
180 horn bt 55.5 2742 not a great group
180 horn bt 56.2 2805 maybe good..too much sidewind
180 nos bt 56.5 2820 shot good..too much wind no signs
of pressure, same brass as tsx above.
Prime pockets still tight.
180 etip 52.5 2710 looks like in comparison to hornady
load above this thing needs about
2.5 grains less powder for samespeed
Again...my intent was to push things a bit. I have been using quick load as a guide. Even though my ql has re17 in it's library if I use I4350 as the powder it matches my data to a "T".
None of my loads are probably over65K at a worse case scenario and may be well below....just don't know if there is magic in this re17 as testers reported at 6mmbr website.
