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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 1196166" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p>I've been reading through a lot of these threads and I currently have an ok developed load but still not the best that I would like. My beef is the high ES that I get with my load. Its 57 grains of retumbo at .075 off the lands. As I've read there are some things that I'm not doing. I'm trying not to wreck this lot of brass to fast. I also know my gun seem to close the ES as I increase the powder charge (close to max) when I used other powders. I may tweak the powder charge up to 57.3 and measure ES again. Also when reloading I use a full length sizing reading die with ball expander set up just enough to knock the shoulder back so the gun feeds nicely. My question is there any one thing that stands out that has dropped your ES speed down more than any thing else...like using a neck bushing die, turning the necks or doing both, weighing out you brass, sorting bullets by weight and bearing surface, etc...etc...etc... I'm shooting the 140VLD's. Currently getting about .6/.5MOA at 100. I do shoot out to 1000 yards with it but it can have some fliers that are deffinatly outside of what I'm looking for. At the 1000 or really it like 1020 yards me and the gun usually do about 1.5 MOA to 2 MOA. I think sometimes if I had a better bench setup it would be also better. I shoot off my home depot little work bench with a front bi-pod and a small rear sandbag. If I shoot prone I set the feet of the bi-pod on a frisbee so it acts like it on the bench. I still us the rear sandbag. I know weighing out bullets can make a change but I haven't seen any extreme in the berger bullets. I had to do this with the ABLR 142s. That made a great difference with shooting them. I had some that was coming close to the 2 grain off 1.7 grains to be exact.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 1196166, member: 10429"] I've been reading through a lot of these threads and I currently have an ok developed load but still not the best that I would like. My beef is the high ES that I get with my load. Its 57 grains of retumbo at .075 off the lands. As I've read there are some things that I'm not doing. I'm trying not to wreck this lot of brass to fast. I also know my gun seem to close the ES as I increase the powder charge (close to max) when I used other powders. I may tweak the powder charge up to 57.3 and measure ES again. Also when reloading I use a full length sizing reading die with ball expander set up just enough to knock the shoulder back so the gun feeds nicely. My question is there any one thing that stands out that has dropped your ES speed down more than any thing else...like using a neck bushing die, turning the necks or doing both, weighing out you brass, sorting bullets by weight and bearing surface, etc...etc...etc... I'm shooting the 140VLD's. Currently getting about .6/.5MOA at 100. I do shoot out to 1000 yards with it but it can have some fliers that are deffinatly outside of what I'm looking for. At the 1000 or really it like 1020 yards me and the gun usually do about 1.5 MOA to 2 MOA. I think sometimes if I had a better bench setup it would be also better. I shoot off my home depot little work bench with a front bi-pod and a small rear sandbag. If I shoot prone I set the feet of the bi-pod on a frisbee so it acts like it on the bench. I still us the rear sandbag. I know weighing out bullets can make a change but I haven't seen any extreme in the berger bullets. I had to do this with the ABLR 142s. That made a great difference with shooting them. I had some that was coming close to the 2 grain off 1.7 grains to be exact. [/QUOTE]
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