tddeangelo
Handloader
- May 18, 2011
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So, I've been busy, and the stupid IT guy at work (oh wait, that's me...) put in a new web content filter that catches Nosler...oops. So it's tougher to get on here.
Anyway, my load work has focused on 4 rifles--
1- My Extreme Weather 300WSM
2- My 35 Whelen
3- My pre64 270
4- My father's fwt 30-06
300WSM is looking good...subMOA at 200, just a shade over MOA at 300, hitting 6" low at 300, which will be about dead on at 200, which is what I want. That's using RL17 to move a 180PT at roughly 2900, although my chrono wouldn't read the last time I had it out. Hope to get actual speeds soon, but the trajectory I'm getting matches up rather well with 2900+ for MV. Unless I got some magical partitions, lol, it should be about that speed.
35 Whelen is being a bugger. I think I have to pull it apart and see what's up with the bedding. I redid the bedding this summer, and I think I may have something amiss there. It'll put two shots 1-2" apart at 200 yards, then do 2 more the same, but 10" away. Screams bedding problem to me.
Dad's 06--- you may recall this one has had me bashing my head on the wall for over a year now. It was giving him decent groups, then started coming unglued, and was shooting 2.5" up to extremes of 5" at 100 yards. I put in pillars, bedded it with the barrel floated, and did load development. Last time out, I got 2.7" at 300 with it. That was satisfying. I've got it shooting a 165BT out at 2800-ish.
pre64 270- 2.6" at 300 pushing a 150BT at 2960 with RL22. Chrono speeds were obtained for that one, and they match the observed trajectory. All seems well.
Now, I just have to wait for the season to start! Hope all have been well!
Anyway, my load work has focused on 4 rifles--
1- My Extreme Weather 300WSM
2- My 35 Whelen
3- My pre64 270
4- My father's fwt 30-06
300WSM is looking good...subMOA at 200, just a shade over MOA at 300, hitting 6" low at 300, which will be about dead on at 200, which is what I want. That's using RL17 to move a 180PT at roughly 2900, although my chrono wouldn't read the last time I had it out. Hope to get actual speeds soon, but the trajectory I'm getting matches up rather well with 2900+ for MV. Unless I got some magical partitions, lol, it should be about that speed.
35 Whelen is being a bugger. I think I have to pull it apart and see what's up with the bedding. I redid the bedding this summer, and I think I may have something amiss there. It'll put two shots 1-2" apart at 200 yards, then do 2 more the same, but 10" away. Screams bedding problem to me.
Dad's 06--- you may recall this one has had me bashing my head on the wall for over a year now. It was giving him decent groups, then started coming unglued, and was shooting 2.5" up to extremes of 5" at 100 yards. I put in pillars, bedded it with the barrel floated, and did load development. Last time out, I got 2.7" at 300 with it. That was satisfying. I've got it shooting a 165BT out at 2800-ish.
pre64 270- 2.6" at 300 pushing a 150BT at 2960 with RL22. Chrono speeds were obtained for that one, and they match the observed trajectory. All seems well.
Now, I just have to wait for the season to start! Hope all have been well!
