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Anyone loading 200 gr bullets for 300wsm?
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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaRifleman" data-source="post: 280893" data-attributes="member: 11717"><p>I was always under the impression 200 gr bullets would be too long, but I have loaded 180 E-Tips for mine and they are a very long bullet. In fact, they are just about as long as Berger 210 VLDs which I just got done shooting at the range. I was trying them with some RL 17. I shot one round each from 59 to 62.5 grains, expectibng to reach max before 62.5, but still haven't so it's back to the range tomorrow with some stouter loads. I will take it to 63.5 tomorrow.</p><p> </p><p>I am shooting them out of a Sako 85 Finnlight and the throat in that thing is long. So in order to seat the bullet to the lands, the bearing surface was only contacting about 2/3 of the neck. The OAL for the Bergers is 3.165 and so far it is not near a compressed load. The E-Tips were way deeper than that because I loaded them to fit the mag (2.93 OAL)</p><p> </p><p>It was getting too late for good velocity readings, but so far. the Bergers seemed to be shooting very well. Will hopefully have a report in the next day or so.</p><p> </p><p>-MR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaRifleman, post: 280893, member: 11717"] I was always under the impression 200 gr bullets would be too long, but I have loaded 180 E-Tips for mine and they are a very long bullet. In fact, they are just about as long as Berger 210 VLDs which I just got done shooting at the range. I was trying them with some RL 17. I shot one round each from 59 to 62.5 grains, expectibng to reach max before 62.5, but still haven't so it's back to the range tomorrow with some stouter loads. I will take it to 63.5 tomorrow. I am shooting them out of a Sako 85 Finnlight and the throat in that thing is long. So in order to seat the bullet to the lands, the bearing surface was only contacting about 2/3 of the neck. The OAL for the Bergers is 3.165 and so far it is not near a compressed load. The E-Tips were way deeper than that because I loaded them to fit the mag (2.93 OAL) It was getting too late for good velocity readings, but so far. the Bergers seemed to be shooting very well. Will hopefully have a report in the next day or so. -MR [/QUOTE]
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