Sunday reloading. What are you loading?

[Alderman]

Put some test loads together for the 338.
Will be my first try with a Combined Technology Ballistic Silver Tip with the coating but I did shoot some uncoated ones the Pro Shop had available years ago.

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[Guy Miner]

7mm Rem Mag, 160 gr Nosler Partition, RL-22

375 H&H, 260 gr Nosler AccuBond, RL-15

Both for Ruger Number One rifles. :grin:

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Another batch of 50 7mm-300 win mag with H1000 and 180g ELDMs

 

[1100 Remington Man]

I hate to say it's summer Trap Shooting.
12ga Remington STS hull
Win. 209. Primer
e3 15.7 gr. Powder
Blueduster Wad
1 1/8 oz. 8 1/2 shot My 16 yard Singles load for ATA events.

 

[JD338]

6.5 Creedmoor 129 gr ABLR and 130 gr AB (wife)
280AI 150 gr ABLR (me)
280AI 140 gr BT (wife)
338RUM 250 he AB (me)
45-70 300 gr PT (me)
Should keep me busy for a bit

JD338

 

[SJB358]

I loaded today

375 Improved



7 WSM



and 300 RUM



It was so darned hot this weekend the basement loading area was mighty pleasant.

 

[Alderman]

I loaded today

375 Improved



7 WSM



and 300 RUM



It was so darned hot this weekend the basement loading area was mighty pleasant.

Interesting line up and good looking ammo. Do they make 375 improved brass or do you fire form your own out of H&H brass?
I read it is okay to shoot H&H in the improved and if you’ve done so, do they group decently?


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[SJB358]

I loaded today

375 Improved



7 WSM



and 300 RUM



It was so darned hot this weekend the basement loading area was mighty pleasant.

Interesting line up and good looking ammo. Do they make 375 improved brass or do you fire form your own out of H&H brass?
I read it is okay to shoot H&H in the improved and if you’ve done so, do they group decently?


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Oh yeah, I could easily hunt with my 375 using fire form loads. Matter of fact, Federals 300 grain Partition load is easily the most accurate load I’ve put through the gun. I actually use top end 375 H&H load data to fire form my cases and they come out beautiful.

 

[358 WCF]

Too hot to range test yesterday, so I made up some of those 200 CT Silvertips in 338-06 Ackley with WW nickle 280 cases fireformed the week before. Trying the short-cut H4350 in this batch. They may not shoot, but they sure do look purdy. I tried the 280 brass to see if the new brass fireform/headspacing problem could be cured in an alternate manner to cornmeal. It worked. The nickle plating also solved the hard rearward bolt movement due to a rough chamber. A win/win.

Also made up a 358 Norma/250 Speer/RL26 test series with cases formed from PPU 300 WinMag. Nice brass at a fraction of the Norma's cost. A little bigger boiler room too.

And finally a test of WW,RP, Hornady, & Peterson cases in 280/150 Core-Lokt. All with a known good mild load to see what the difference is between brands of brass. After seeing all those great pictures you guys are posting maybe I'll mess around with the camera & see if there's something in settings that wont let it transfer pics to the computer.

 

[SJB358]

Good luck 358, looking forward to seeing what the 338 does for you. That’s a neat darned cartridge.

I used RL26 in my old 35 Newton. Man oh man did it make some serious speed with 250 Partitions. That’s another I’ll be looking at when you fire it up.

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Hey Scotty what are those tipped bullets you have in the 7 WSM?

 

[SJB358]

160 grain Trophy Bonded Tipped Bearclaws.

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Thanks. I'll have to look into those some.

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Well looks like they're copper bullets, so that's a no for me. Never been a fan of monos. If I need a bullet to retain 90%+ I'll use the Swift A-Frame.

 

[358 WCF]

Thanks Scotty, I was reading thru some old threads on here about your Newton & other 35 stuff. Thinking that's where I copied the QL with RL26 from. I'm also wondering about lighter bullets... 200s & 225s. Since the same powders as 35 Whelen (RL15, H4895, etc.) work so well with them, have you tried CFE223 or 2000MR in your Newton? There's no love anywhere for newer powder data in the big 35s. If the Whelen can reach 2900fps with 200s, what can the Newton or the Norma do with all that extra powder capacity?

The 25" 338 Ackley, in the past, has pushed 200/210s to 2850fps fairly accurately, but ran out of room with the old long stick 4350s. RL19 & W760 didn't quite get the speed I was hoping for while IMR-4831 & RL22 burn too slow for 210s in this cartridge. It was built in '91 specifically with the 210 Partition in mind & has been mostly guarding the safe since about '93. With the sticky chamber problem fixed & all these new powders to experiment with I'm sure it can do a little better.

 

[SJB358]

Well looks like they're copper bullets, so that's a no for me. Never been a fan of monos. If I need a bullet to retain 90%+ I'll use the Swift A-Frame.

Not copper mono’s, they are a copper base with leaded from core. I guess if you wanna think of them as a aerodynamic A-Frame, that’s sorta what they are.

I think you’re thinking of the Trophy Copper Tipped Bullet, that’s pretty much an E-Tip.

 

[SJB358]

Thanks Scotty, I was reading thru some old threads on here about your Newton & other 35 stuff. Thinking that's where I copied the QL with RL26 from. I'm also wondering about lighter bullets... 200s & 225s. Since the same powders as 35 Whelen (RL15, H4895, etc.) work so well with them, have you tried CFE223 or 2000MR in your Newton? There's no love anywhere for newer powder data in the big 35s. If the Whelen can reach 2900fps with 200s, what can the Newton or the Norma do with all that extra powder capacity?

The 25" 338 Ackley, in the past, has pushed 200/210s to 2850fps fairly accurately, but ran out of room with the old long stick 4350s. RL19 & W760 didn't quite get the speed I was hoping for while IMR-4831 & RL22 burn too slow for 210s in this cartridge. It was built in '91 specifically with the 210 Partition in mind & has been mostly guarding the safe since about '93. With the sticky chamber problem fixed & all these new powders to experiment with I'm sure it can do a little better.

I’d give RL17 a shot in your 338. I believe you’ll get some speed out of it there.

I ran the 200 TTSX and Accubonds about 3100 in my Newton with RL17 and 2950 with the 225 Accubonds. 17 was accurate as well.

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Are these not what you're loading Scotty?

 

[remingtonman_25_06]

Where are you getting the trophy bonded tip bearclaws at? I'm not even seeing them for sale anywhere? So the one I'm looking at is copper, but the one you're talking about is lead? Correct? Hel, these federal bullets are new to me haha. But I do like the idea of a tipped bearclaw, why I'm trying to find them for reloading. I see them in factory loaded ammo, just not for reloading.

 

[SJB358]

I get them from Midway Jorey. They are made by Federal. The one pictured is a 270 130 grain started at 3150. We’ve taken a few bucks and elk with them. They work excellent.

The one you have pictured is the lead cored one.