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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2410927" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>I load both for 30-06 and 300 Win Mag using a variety of different brass, all the same lot numbers and not mixed. Cases are tumbled for cleaning, primers punched out and pockets cleaned. Currently using Federal Large Magnum primers in both hand seating using a Lyman hand seating tool the use IMR4350 usually trickled to just below max and use 165 gr Barnes TSX for both loads. I use standard RCBS dies set to the recommended settings without trying to improve on the factory settings. Bullets are seated so the maximum length is a bit below SAMMI specs. The 300 WM also gets additional crimping using a Lee factory crimp die (per Butterbean) which did drop my group size down from 0.9 to 0.75. The 30-06 shoots 0.65 without any additional crimping. It has been my experience that if a particular load is not working the chances are that the barrel simply does not like the bullet you are trying to shoot. You can play with it all you want, change primers, powders, use all the ladders you want to and it won't help much. My current go to bullets are Nosler Partitions, Sierra Game King and Honady Interlock. 165 gr and 180 in the 300 WM. All shoot under 1 MOA all day and from cold to hot barrel (these days from about 10 degrees F to whatever the barrel heats up to firing either 4 or 5 rounds in just a few minutes) without enough of a MOA change to make a difference. Sometimes I think that overthinking is more of an issue than simply using standard reloading methods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2410927, member: 118816"] I load both for 30-06 and 300 Win Mag using a variety of different brass, all the same lot numbers and not mixed. Cases are tumbled for cleaning, primers punched out and pockets cleaned. Currently using Federal Large Magnum primers in both hand seating using a Lyman hand seating tool the use IMR4350 usually trickled to just below max and use 165 gr Barnes TSX for both loads. I use standard RCBS dies set to the recommended settings without trying to improve on the factory settings. Bullets are seated so the maximum length is a bit below SAMMI specs. The 300 WM also gets additional crimping using a Lee factory crimp die (per Butterbean) which did drop my group size down from 0.9 to 0.75. The 30-06 shoots 0.65 without any additional crimping. It has been my experience that if a particular load is not working the chances are that the barrel simply does not like the bullet you are trying to shoot. You can play with it all you want, change primers, powders, use all the ladders you want to and it won't help much. My current go to bullets are Nosler Partitions, Sierra Game King and Honady Interlock. 165 gr and 180 in the 300 WM. All shoot under 1 MOA all day and from cold to hot barrel (these days from about 10 degrees F to whatever the barrel heats up to firing either 4 or 5 rounds in just a few minutes) without enough of a MOA change to make a difference. Sometimes I think that overthinking is more of an issue than simply using standard reloading methods. [/QUOTE]
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