Rick Richard
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Haha. I could of saved you a lot of time because my load is about the same, but with 91.5 grains of N570.
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That's a lot of meat on the ground for several seasons.. Good luck with your hunts.
Huntnful
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Haha I could have saved myself a lot of time if I just started with the 230's hahaha. I wanted a copper load, which took about 100 rounds with switching primers and powders. Then I thought the 225 ELDM's would be the ticket. And they shot well, but nothing crazy good. So then I finally shot the 230's and it only took 35 rounds to get a pretty killer load set up.
Yup! That should just about be enough rounds until you need to rebarrel after all this! Hahahaha
Huntnful
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Lmao
. I'm just getting started! I'm learning that barrels are just consumables in the big boy cartridge department. New barrel will be here tomorrow actually!
Thanks! Gives me a good point to work from.
Looks like a great load! I'm curious to see what this length does at 1000 yards.
You probably shouldn't have sold me the 250 pack of 230's a couple months ago!
Huntnful
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Not a problem at all man! I know people were needing them and I had quite I few. I can still shoot the barrel out
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And that my friend has gained you years of evolution over the "barrel life will suffer crowd"!! nothing high performance isn't hard on ****Lmao
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MallardAddict
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Gotta pay to play when your shooting 85+ grs of powder. I too have a spare 1:8 30 cal barrel sitting in wait for the inevitableLmao
Huntnful
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Final load. Tested a .03 deeper seating depth first to see if my accuracy would stay half assed decent for a duration of throat erosion. The first two went in the same hole, so naturally I had to shoot a third to see if it was an even better seating depth. But it wasn't lol. Then shot my load with the depth that I had all 50 loaded to. Printed a nice .3 group. Then went straight to 936 yards with a 5mph head wind. Excellent vertical and the left and right was pretty decent considering the variable wind. THEN I went to another ranch and shot 1200 yards and **** got ugly. But I need to shoot that again. I didn't really clear out all the rocks from under my bipod legs or rear rest and never felt REALLY solid. My mistake anyways. All stuff I am thinking about after the fact of course.
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cci250 or fed?
Huntnful
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Fed 215M. They shot well enough that I didn't want to keep trying stuff. I'm tired man
. But I have 8,000 215's and only 2000 250's. So I need to run through the 215's if they shoot well enough.
