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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 1236093" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p>+1 for what <a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/members/sanssouci-84520/" target="_blank">SansSouci</a> had posted. I have used retumbo in a 300win mag before with good results also. It bumped up the velocity and was sub MOA. I have since went to the 300RUM in a Sendero. I have been testing the 220 ELD-X bullets that also have a long bearing surface as well. Running 87 grains of RLL 26 which is about all I want to run and getting 3023fps. Currrently my group has reduced over my retumbo load. I am currently in the process of trying to back it down to see if I can reduce it more. I would like to keep it around 3000+ fps with the hopes of shrinking the group posibally to .5 MOA. Any ways its a lot easer to dial up on the scope then to spend countless hours of chasing the highest node of accuracy and velocity even though I still do this a little Because I get bored but on my RUM it not been worth the cost...Also if doing it again the cost and time spent trying to find Remington Rum brass can be exhausting. I currentlu have 100 new brass and after about 5 reloads on these I figure the barrel will be shot out by then and the brass should be ready for the waste benn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 1236093, member: 10429"] +1 for what [URL="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/members/sanssouci-84520/"]SansSouci[/URL] had posted. I have used retumbo in a 300win mag before with good results also. It bumped up the velocity and was sub MOA. I have since went to the 300RUM in a Sendero. I have been testing the 220 ELD-X bullets that also have a long bearing surface as well. Running 87 grains of RLL 26 which is about all I want to run and getting 3023fps. Currrently my group has reduced over my retumbo load. I am currently in the process of trying to back it down to see if I can reduce it more. I would like to keep it around 3000+ fps with the hopes of shrinking the group posibally to .5 MOA. Any ways its a lot easer to dial up on the scope then to spend countless hours of chasing the highest node of accuracy and velocity even though I still do this a little Because I get bored but on my RUM it not been worth the cost...Also if doing it again the cost and time spent trying to find Remington Rum brass can be exhausting. I currentlu have 100 new brass and after about 5 reloads on these I figure the barrel will be shot out by then and the brass should be ready for the waste benn. [/QUOTE]
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