Im probably going to get some critizem for this thread, but it's not so much as being lazy as that I don't seem to have as much time as I once did for lengthy load development. The load development I done years ago might be all finished up in a couple of weeks but the same scenario today could take me a couple of months. Anyway, I don't want to start a war over what caliber or cartridge is "best" but I just wanted to get some feedback from some of you about your experiences with some cartridges that didn't take much at all to get the load developed/ worked up for accuracy. And of course I know that each person's years of experience will have a great bearing on how quick and easy load development will be with any particular cartridge & rifle combo and I know the rifle build itself will have a lot to do with results as well.
So here goes with my endeavors:
To no ones surprise, I've found the 6.5 creedmoor very easy to tune in several rifles in general. I have a 7mm stw that tuned fairly easy. Maybe not hardly as easy as some 6.5 creedmoors but end results were just as good. I found the 22 creedmoor to be fairly easy to tune. Similar to the 6.5 creedmoor as far as minimal load development. I've loaded for many other cartridges besides these but I was still learning as I went so it wouldn't be particularly relevant for me to get into those but at those times they were more time consuming than the cartridges I've already mentioned. So now I'm gonna get to my latest project that has seemed to be a perfect match for my situation of being short on time and needing quick results: The 6.5 SAUM. My particular rifle is nothing fancy and wears a barrel from Apache gun works who has provided me another great shooting Barrel in the past. I really haven't put just a lot of time into load development for this rifle. I think it's capable of more when I have more time. I'm holding in the .3s out to 500yds and occasionally larger but never over or equal to 1/2 moa @ 500. And this is with some mild wind. I think I have a decent barrel but certainly not top tier. Im positive the chamber work itself is excellent. I'm using adg brass with 147 elds & N570. So I've got to give some credit to the cartridge itself for it's ease of tuneability. I said all that to say that this cartridge has somewhat surprised me being that it's not necessarily a high end build. Any way, I would like to hear some feedback from some of you guys with such scenario's of where you haven't had to put much time into load development and it shot nice consistent groups.
So here goes with my endeavors:
To no ones surprise, I've found the 6.5 creedmoor very easy to tune in several rifles in general. I have a 7mm stw that tuned fairly easy. Maybe not hardly as easy as some 6.5 creedmoors but end results were just as good. I found the 22 creedmoor to be fairly easy to tune. Similar to the 6.5 creedmoor as far as minimal load development. I've loaded for many other cartridges besides these but I was still learning as I went so it wouldn't be particularly relevant for me to get into those but at those times they were more time consuming than the cartridges I've already mentioned. So now I'm gonna get to my latest project that has seemed to be a perfect match for my situation of being short on time and needing quick results: The 6.5 SAUM. My particular rifle is nothing fancy and wears a barrel from Apache gun works who has provided me another great shooting Barrel in the past. I really haven't put just a lot of time into load development for this rifle. I think it's capable of more when I have more time. I'm holding in the .3s out to 500yds and occasionally larger but never over or equal to 1/2 moa @ 500. And this is with some mild wind. I think I have a decent barrel but certainly not top tier. Im positive the chamber work itself is excellent. I'm using adg brass with 147 elds & N570. So I've got to give some credit to the cartridge itself for it's ease of tuneability. I said all that to say that this cartridge has somewhat surprised me being that it's not necessarily a high end build. Any way, I would like to hear some feedback from some of you guys with such scenario's of where you haven't had to put much time into load development and it shot nice consistent groups.
