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Powder Temp Stability Test – 8028XBR, Varget, H4350, RL19, RL26, N560
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<blockquote data-quote="reubenski" data-source="post: 1555008" data-attributes="member: 36515"><p>Great work! That's a lot of good info.</p><p></p><p>I have temp tested RL26 as well and found it to be very stable. I put 5 rds in my beer fridge for 3 hours, 5 rds in my gunbox in my garage, and 5 rds in the Colorado sun on top of a black Foldgers lid with a glass measuring bowl on top of them. I measured the temps with a Milaukee IR gun and with my Kestrel at 36*, 55*, and 83* respectively. I shot them with my rifle at ambient 55* temp. All pretty quickly. 5 hot, then 5 cold, and then the 5 ambient. There was almost no difference. I didn't think about conditioning the rifle as well like you did. I guess I was trying to isolate everything. The load was a proven stable and hammer of a load that I used starting in February in New Mexico and thru the summer in Colorado. It reflected those testing results in practice. One of the matches I shoot with it, starts at 30* in morning and ends up in the 70's by early afternoon. I am very pleased with RL26. My only gripes would be that the kernals are different sized so trickling down to the kernal is a challenge not worth attempting and I've never gotten repeatable mid single digit SDs with it. But the vertical at distance is good, so I don't sweat it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="reubenski, post: 1555008, member: 36515"] Great work! That's a lot of good info. I have temp tested RL26 as well and found it to be very stable. I put 5 rds in my beer fridge for 3 hours, 5 rds in my gunbox in my garage, and 5 rds in the Colorado sun on top of a black Foldgers lid with a glass measuring bowl on top of them. I measured the temps with a Milaukee IR gun and with my Kestrel at 36*, 55*, and 83* respectively. I shot them with my rifle at ambient 55* temp. All pretty quickly. 5 hot, then 5 cold, and then the 5 ambient. There was almost no difference. I didn't think about conditioning the rifle as well like you did. I guess I was trying to isolate everything. The load was a proven stable and hammer of a load that I used starting in February in New Mexico and thru the summer in Colorado. It reflected those testing results in practice. One of the matches I shoot with it, starts at 30* in morning and ends up in the 70's by early afternoon. I am very pleased with RL26. My only gripes would be that the kernals are different sized so trickling down to the kernal is a challenge not worth attempting and I've never gotten repeatable mid single digit SDs with it. But the vertical at distance is good, so I don't sweat it. [/QUOTE]
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