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6.5x284 loads, anything but 4831
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<blockquote data-quote="cfvickers" data-source="post: 496132" data-attributes="member: 25488"><p>Backwoods, Are you really not seeing major pressure with 53 grains of RL17? I will blow every other primer at 52.5 and absolutely wreck my brass if I don't blow the primer. Max safe load for me is 52. But I am at 3205 fps with 52 grains with ES at 1fps, and I can't complain about that/ </p><p></p><p>49.7 grains with Lapua brass, 50.2 with Hornady brass of H4831SC gets me 1/2 inch groups at 200 yards. ES of around 10 velocity with a 26 inch barrel is about 2850 and 2790 with a 23.5 inch barrel. The short barrel didn't take kindly to the RL17 but it likes Hybrid 100V where the 26 inch savage doesn't. In the shorter barrel I am using 49.5 grains of Hybrid 100v with a 140 VLD and getting 1/2 inch groups at 100 and 3/4-1 inch groups at 200. All of these loads are developed with Fed 215 primers. My OAL for both rifles is 3.195 for the 130 VLD and 3.223 with the 140 VLD. Best RL17 load with the 140 is 50.8 grains. N160 seems to show some promise for accuracy but not velocity and without looking I cannot tell you what the best load with it is. I didn't do much work with it due to the fact it is not readily available around here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cfvickers, post: 496132, member: 25488"] Backwoods, Are you really not seeing major pressure with 53 grains of RL17? I will blow every other primer at 52.5 and absolutely wreck my brass if I don't blow the primer. Max safe load for me is 52. But I am at 3205 fps with 52 grains with ES at 1fps, and I can't complain about that/ 49.7 grains with Lapua brass, 50.2 with Hornady brass of H4831SC gets me 1/2 inch groups at 200 yards. ES of around 10 velocity with a 26 inch barrel is about 2850 and 2790 with a 23.5 inch barrel. The short barrel didn't take kindly to the RL17 but it likes Hybrid 100V where the 26 inch savage doesn't. In the shorter barrel I am using 49.5 grains of Hybrid 100v with a 140 VLD and getting 1/2 inch groups at 100 and 3/4-1 inch groups at 200. All of these loads are developed with Fed 215 primers. My OAL for both rifles is 3.195 for the 130 VLD and 3.223 with the 140 VLD. Best RL17 load with the 140 is 50.8 grains. N160 seems to show some promise for accuracy but not velocity and without looking I cannot tell you what the best load with it is. I didn't do much work with it due to the fact it is not readily available around here. [/QUOTE]
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