The old girl shoots. Yippee yay. A guy never knows. Nice rifle, I'm gonna be happy with it.
I remembered I have an almost full box of 100 gr Speer HC's I had bought to try in my slow twist 250 savage as they are the shortest 100 gr bullet available. An overall length of 2.950 with that bullet put it .075 off the lands and .100 out from the neck base. Figured that was a good compromise between the 2.
Used Nosler's 257 AI data for a 100 gr bullet and loaded 7 up with IMR 4350. 46.5, 47.5, 48.5, and four at 49.5.
Knew right off it wasn't gonna be a stinker when the 46.5 - 48.5 shots were within an inch, with the 47.5 and 48.5 about 1/2" apart. Marked those 3 and shot the 49.5's.
Problem is they shot in with the 47.5 and 48.5 loadings which I wasn't expecting. So I don't know exactly which is which, but bottom line is it put 6 shots ranging in charges from 47.5 - 49.5 under 3/4" The last shot went somewhere in that bottom 3 cluster because those 3 and the top 2 were already there.
Load workup with this rifle and whatever bullets should be easy down the road. The 49.5's averaged 3080fps, got room to go up yet based on lack of pressure signs and speed, but seems like an easy load on the rifle and plenty fast enough, so I'll probably stick where it's at.
I remembered I have an almost full box of 100 gr Speer HC's I had bought to try in my slow twist 250 savage as they are the shortest 100 gr bullet available. An overall length of 2.950 with that bullet put it .075 off the lands and .100 out from the neck base. Figured that was a good compromise between the 2.
Used Nosler's 257 AI data for a 100 gr bullet and loaded 7 up with IMR 4350. 46.5, 47.5, 48.5, and four at 49.5.
Knew right off it wasn't gonna be a stinker when the 46.5 - 48.5 shots were within an inch, with the 47.5 and 48.5 about 1/2" apart. Marked those 3 and shot the 49.5's.
Problem is they shot in with the 47.5 and 48.5 loadings which I wasn't expecting. So I don't know exactly which is which, but bottom line is it put 6 shots ranging in charges from 47.5 - 49.5 under 3/4" The last shot went somewhere in that bottom 3 cluster because those 3 and the top 2 were already there.
Load workup with this rifle and whatever bullets should be easy down the road. The 49.5's averaged 3080fps, got room to go up yet based on lack of pressure signs and speed, but seems like an easy load on the rifle and plenty fast enough, so I'll probably stick where it's at.
