Recent content by 450 Fuller

Etter in his M-700 used H-205 and IMR 4350 to achieve velocities of 2994 and 2932 FPS with 180 gr Nosler partition bullets. Those velocities are around an extra 175 FPS chronographed out of his 22 in barrel, and his results were chronographed for reliable repeatability, using F 210M-magnum...

John Barsness in a 1999 Handloader article : "One rifle-One load" years ago made a believer out of me on the 30-06 . He used the Nosler 165 gr Partition bullet with IMR 4350 handloads- for along trip hunting plains game in Africa. That bullet can be moved along pretty well and does'nt give up...

In the older Jan-Feb 1981 issue of Handloader Magazine, E. Etter has written one of the best articles ever written on the 30-06 Ackley Improved cartridge. His results mirror mine pretty much, EXCEPT the age of powders now available. In that you have to start slow as you get closer to maximum...

Greetings from a new member- I am a retired Army Lt Col-combat veteran- with MACVSOG and the 5th Special Forces Gp (ABN) in Vietnam. Prefer pre-64 Winchester M-70s as to bolt guns, and have taken more than my share of large deer and moose with pre-war Model 71s in 348 WCF. Handloading...

The 30-06 Ackley Improved has been with us many decades. Nosler provides some interesting reloading data as does Sierra. Your rifle will decide which is the better loading data. I have a custom 98 Mauser which is well built as a classic platform. I tend to use slow powders like H-450 and IMR...