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Yes RL 25 is a great powder. SC is great...same stuff as the regular stuff chemically but physically smaller kernels.
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Hornady 117's, either sst or round nose and max charge of Imr7828 are also very good shooters.Well I looked at my handloading spreadsheet that I have been adding to for 35 years.
All my 25-06 loads from 100 gr to 117 gr did remarkably well with IMR 7828....Including my latest load.
Other powders that worked easily and very well are
RL 22
RL 25
H4831SC
RL 26
These are my go to powders.
Maybe try .060" off the lands.The weather wasn't my friend. I was fighting the rain trying to get these rounds out. I'll break it up into two post.
This is my JD Special - .050 off the lands. 100 yard shots
I cleaned the gun prior to shooting these 10 rounds. My first shot was a fouling and temp shot that hit dead in the bull. I gave 2 minutes between each shot until 3 shots. Then I let it rest 10 minutes.
My Sd and ES on this load were better than what I was getting with H1000, and the group was better. My FPS was higher than any of my loads with H1000 as well, although that won't be a huge factor for my FIL because he shoots inside 200 yards in most cases. Going center to center this group measured 1.432. The lower shot was my first, the two next to each other were shots 2 and 3.
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49grs for the Fusions and 51grs for the GK.What charge weight did you do the 117's at with IMR4350?
Here is everything the same but .060 off. I'm going to try bumping the powder to some of the levels these guys mentioned in this thread. Once I see those results, I may put a fork in this thing and call it good. This time my 3rd shot was the one out of the pack. Maybe it was me.. hard to say. That's the best group I have got out of this gun though.Maybe try .060" off the lands.
Don't clean the barrel. I think your almost there.
JD338
Maybe I'll try the seating depth first and keep backing it up. No reason to stray away now haha.If it were me, I'd use the same charge weight and try .065" and .070" off the lands. You should be about where you want to be.
Nice shooting.
JD338