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The Basics, Starting Out
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2230177" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Any of those cheap flat base soft points seem to be accurate both as factory and component bullets. Federal blue box (which I believe are Speer hot cor), Winchester super x with power points, Remington cor lokt, and for handloading Sierra pro hunters and hornady interlocks. </p><p></p><p>ive actually given this as standard "starting out handloading" advice. Take a flat base soft point (any will do, but I recommend hornady interlocks if for no other reason than that they're available more often than others). Load to standard coal on top of 1 grain under book max for that exact bullet with any of the old school imr single base stick powders - 4895, 4064, 4350, 4831, 7828ssc, whatever gives the best case fill - standard primers - and this load will tell you a whole lot about what your rifle will ever be capable of. You can improve upon this loads power for sure, and you can load projectiles for higher bc or tougher terminal performance or whatever, but this boring lazy load will probably shoot to within 90 percent of what your rifle is ever going to be capable of doing as far as 100 yard groups go and it serves as a useful yardstick against which to compare your other handloads going forward from there. Put another way, if a given rifle shoots terribly with this kind of load I predict you'll have a miserable time finding anything it DOES like. My standard advice to new guys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2230177, member: 109862"] Any of those cheap flat base soft points seem to be accurate both as factory and component bullets. Federal blue box (which I believe are Speer hot cor), Winchester super x with power points, Remington cor lokt, and for handloading Sierra pro hunters and hornady interlocks. ive actually given this as standard “starting out handloading” advice. Take a flat base soft point (any will do, but I recommend hornady interlocks if for no other reason than that they’re available more often than others). Load to standard coal on top of 1 grain under book max for that exact bullet with any of the old school imr single base stick powders - 4895, 4064, 4350, 4831, 7828ssc, whatever gives the best case fill - standard primers - and this load will tell you a whole lot about what your rifle will ever be capable of. You can improve upon this loads power for sure, and you can load projectiles for higher bc or tougher terminal performance or whatever, but this boring lazy load will probably shoot to within 90 percent of what your rifle is ever going to be capable of doing as far as 100 yard groups go and it serves as a useful yardstick against which to compare your other handloads going forward from there. Put another way, if a given rifle shoots terribly with this kind of load I predict you’ll have a miserable time finding anything it DOES like. My standard advice to new guys. [/QUOTE]
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