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A new angle

23 Jan 2017
@ 04:41 am (GMT)

Ronald Le May

They say teaching old dogs new tricks is hard but this one learnt pretty quick with the advice given in Nathans book on reloading.
I must say I have all of Nathans books 6 of them and they are highly regarded by myself as it contains tried methods with honest appraisals of the results.
My shooting/hunting career has been over 42 years and have done most disciplines H/guns, Trap/Skeet, Sml bore, military, my wife is also a shooter of 25 years we both reload our ammunition.
I have a swag of books on reloading Nick Harvey, Elmer Keith, Speer, Hornady, ADI, Mann to name a few all of which offer the reader different aspects and trialed information.
What works for one may not work for others and some of the stuff I have encountered on the web and in a certain reloading program I have had me the wrong side of the wire. Having had a very close experience with over pressure where I suffered a detonation that caused a fracture just in front of the bolt handle in the bolt body of my Savage 112.

We all strive to get the most out of our rifles me more accuracy wise but I have a barrel burner so my quest was for a low density load for high velocity and low pressure, I always keep my load density's above 50 - 60% so you cannot physically double load a case.
Using a low volume load of ball powder with a magnum primer I feel this set up the condition anyway it is now rectified and I am a wiser lucky chap.

I use Bergers exclusively though I do have Scenna's as well but have not played with them very much. I had set my old 2nd barrel up (shot out @1424 round count 2 re-crowns & re-chamber) with Bergers at a 5-10 thou jump and had mediocre success with this load, after trying what the experts swear by and 2950FPS with a 140gn 6.5mm was just to hard on the rig.
So I opted a bit slower 2,800 ~ 2,850 as I needed a bit of speed from a 1000 yds so your not in the tran-sonic stage at a 1000.

Last week I went and revisited Nathans books just to ensure I keep my skill set up and there it was Bergers like a 40 thou jump as I had gone previously 5-10-15-20 thou jump also tried 5-10-15 thou jams.
Did up a batch of 12 at 30 thou jump with a control set of my reloads at 10 thou jump and shot them at 900M Sunday 22/01/2017.
Its is the usual here in summer mirage and very high winds this breeze was all over the shop L-R-front fishtail mirage the same L-R-boiling!
I used my 10 thou reload to get on target and suffered a paltry 53 with 1x conditions became even more of a challenge 2nd time around.
I fired in with the Nathan jump back to 30 thou a 58 with 3x topping the highest score for the day and beating 2 state F/O shooters for over all score, imagine if I had 2 lots at 30 thou the group just tightened right up.
Maybe only by 2 points but there it was so Nathan thanks bloke will update how my scores go with this new tube in the rifle as it has only has 95 rounds through it. Thanks Nathan

Rifle ~ 6.5 x 284 Savage 112 LLRE, Custom stock, 30" HART 1/8TR, 20MOA rail, Ken Farell rings, March 8-80 x 56 LTM-4 reticule.
Load ~ Lapua case TTL 2.161, 49.7Gns RE_22, 140gn Berger 30 thou jump, Primer Fed-215M. NOTE ~ this load works in my rifle start yours at 10% under this and work up. No liability accepted for using this load.

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29 Jan 2017
@ 09:47 pm (GMT)

Nathan Foster

Re: A new angle
Thanks Ron, much appreciated! I am sure others will appreciate the load notes, even if they do not post.
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