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<blockquote data-quote="jeremy.b" data-source="post: 1668121" data-attributes="member: 108117"><p>New(ish) member here, long-time lurker, but I can contribute a bit on this topic!</p><p></p><p>I'm wrapping up a round of load development on dead stock Tikka 270. I had been running RL22 for a while under 130g Accubonds. Ultimately excessive meat damage (over expansion at close range) on a couple deer/antelope pushed me to starting a new round of load development and bullet selection.</p><p></p><p>My bullet choices were 150 NP, and after some digging, emailed Steve and had some 133g Sledgehammers on the way.</p><p></p><p>Research lead me to picking up a pound of RL26 last fall and I was able to hunt down a 1 lber without much issue (little did I know!).</p><p></p><p>I started load build up this spring and RL 26 certainly delivered. In my velocity ladders with just the 150 NP my Tikka was able to max out at 3050 fps.</p><p></p><p>Before even going much further than the velocity ladder with the 150g NP I started seeing how impossible RL26 was getting to find and I knew if I worked up loads for both bullets I'd burn all of that 1lber of RL26 up in a hurry. So I picked up Quickload, calibrated to my setup and found that IMR 7828/ssc might get me close to RL26 and I had a 1 lber of 7828 already on hand.</p><p></p><p>Velocity ladders got me within 20-50 fps of RL26, which was good enough for me. My tikka maxed out just over 3k on the 150 NPs and right near 3150 with the 133 sledgehammers with 7828, which was a nice validation of what QL was indicated.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately the 133 Sledgehammers won out over the 150 NPs and I settled 60.6g of IMR 7828ssc pushing them out at 3120 fps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeremy.b, post: 1668121, member: 108117"] New(ish) member here, long-time lurker, but I can contribute a bit on this topic! I'm wrapping up a round of load development on dead stock Tikka 270. I had been running RL22 for a while under 130g Accubonds. Ultimately excessive meat damage (over expansion at close range) on a couple deer/antelope pushed me to starting a new round of load development and bullet selection. My bullet choices were 150 NP, and after some digging, emailed Steve and had some 133g Sledgehammers on the way. Research lead me to picking up a pound of RL26 last fall and I was able to hunt down a 1 lber without much issue (little did I know!). I started load build up this spring and RL 26 certainly delivered. In my velocity ladders with just the 150 NP my Tikka was able to max out at 3050 fps. Before even going much further than the velocity ladder with the 150g NP I started seeing how impossible RL26 was getting to find and I knew if I worked up loads for both bullets I'd burn all of that 1lber of RL26 up in a hurry. So I picked up Quickload, calibrated to my setup and found that IMR 7828/ssc might get me close to RL26 and I had a 1 lber of 7828 already on hand. Velocity ladders got me within 20-50 fps of RL26, which was good enough for me. My tikka maxed out just over 3k on the 150 NPs and right near 3150 with the 133 sledgehammers with 7828, which was a nice validation of what QL was indicated. Ultimately the 133 Sledgehammers won out over the 150 NPs and I settled 60.6g of IMR 7828ssc pushing them out at 3120 fps. [/QUOTE]
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