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chicken or egg - seating depth or powder
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<blockquote data-quote="Gunpoor" data-source="post: 393854" data-attributes="member: 8358"><p>You have half the work done for you! Use FC headstamp brass of one lot and the same bullet that is annotated on the end of the box of factory loaded Federal Premiums and seat the bullets to the same COAL and pick a suitable burn rate powder and start charging at the near bottom of the Min load and work up in .5 grain increments until you are loading the Max recommends charge weight. You can load one of each charge weight for a mid-range ladder test (300 to 500 yds) or load 3 or 4 at each charge weight and shoot for groups. Shoot the lowest charge weight first and then the next lowest and so on and so forth while examining each fired case looking for signs of excessive pressure. If none of this ammo shoots to your satisfaction leave the seater die set where it is and try another powder until you start seeing good results. You may have to clean the bore of your rifle periodically, depending how many rounds you fire and the nature of the rifle itself. I have rifles that you can shoot many rounds without noticeable accaracy loss and I have one hardhead that will shoot with amazing accuracy until the barrel copper fouls ( which is quite quickly). After you find some suitable accuracy then you can fine tune the powder charge or fine tune the COAL, but only make one change at a time so you can analyze the results and hopefully make sense of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gunpoor, post: 393854, member: 8358"] You have half the work done for you! Use FC headstamp brass of one lot and the same bullet that is annotated on the end of the box of factory loaded Federal Premiums and seat the bullets to the same COAL and pick a suitable burn rate powder and start charging at the near bottom of the Min load and work up in .5 grain increments until you are loading the Max recommends charge weight. You can load one of each charge weight for a mid-range ladder test (300 to 500 yds) or load 3 or 4 at each charge weight and shoot for groups. Shoot the lowest charge weight first and then the next lowest and so on and so forth while examining each fired case looking for signs of excessive pressure. If none of this ammo shoots to your satisfaction leave the seater die set where it is and try another powder until you start seeing good results. You may have to clean the bore of your rifle periodically, depending how many rounds you fire and the nature of the rifle itself. I have rifles that you can shoot many rounds without noticeable accaracy loss and I have one hardhead that will shoot with amazing accuracy until the barrel copper fouls ( which is quite quickly). After you find some suitable accuracy then you can fine tune the powder charge or fine tune the COAL, but only make one change at a time so you can analyze the results and hopefully make sense of it. [/QUOTE]
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