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300 Rum Load development help needed.
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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 1660463" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p>Its interesting ballistic guy had said shoot for under 20 on the ES. That's been my take as well with the 300 RUM. I would love to get to some single digits, but I think I just always ran my loads at the extreme right before showing pressure to squeak out the most FPS out of them. I have always taken the best group size but a lot of times my ES has been very close to 20 or sometime around 22 to 23 fps for 10 shots. With these loads I have been able to ring steal at 1000yrds with decent results. I tried the loads out close to a mile and it was a whole different ball game. They were at best along with bad wind calls printing about the size of a house door. So like 4 feet by 4 feet from what I could tell through my scope. My best load printed 1/2 to .75 inch at 200yrds. I generally try to shoot at 200 for initial load development and try to get 1/2 MOA or better at 200yrds. A few years back I had my longest kill shot at 761 yards. A little further back in the rib cage but I got all excited when the shot presented itself and I completely forgot my wind hold. Still one shot and dirt nap on a Utah buck. No tags this year so I'm going to work on some load development for some 225 ELDX. I don't think they will work at mag length but that were I'm going to try and start. The 220ELDX worked at mag length and worked well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 1660463, member: 10429"] Its interesting ballistic guy had said shoot for under 20 on the ES. That's been my take as well with the 300 RUM. I would love to get to some single digits, but I think I just always ran my loads at the extreme right before showing pressure to squeak out the most FPS out of them. I have always taken the best group size but a lot of times my ES has been very close to 20 or sometime around 22 to 23 fps for 10 shots. With these loads I have been able to ring steal at 1000yrds with decent results. I tried the loads out close to a mile and it was a whole different ball game. They were at best along with bad wind calls printing about the size of a house door. So like 4 feet by 4 feet from what I could tell through my scope. My best load printed 1/2 to .75 inch at 200yrds. I generally try to shoot at 200 for initial load development and try to get 1/2 MOA or better at 200yrds. A few years back I had my longest kill shot at 761 yards. A little further back in the rib cage but I got all excited when the shot presented itself and I completely forgot my wind hold. Still one shot and dirt nap on a Utah buck. No tags this year so I'm going to work on some load development for some 225 ELDX. I don't think they will work at mag length but that were I'm going to try and start. The 220ELDX worked at mag length and worked well. [/QUOTE]
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