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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 2671720" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p>I been through a pound of CF223 and its not very temp stable for what I was doing and the accuracy seem to be at full case capacity. It was a bad node. As soon as it got a little warm I had hard bolt lift. I've been trying to get some super heavy's to shoot well like the 212ELDX, 210VLD, and 210ABLR. I thought I was going to have some luck with the Varget but that turned out to be more of a mixed brass issue. I need to go back and try this over again with the Varget. I had another 308 that shot the 168 and 178 amax very well and about 50fps apart from each other. I wish I never would of sold the rifle. It was a bedded 1-12 twist heavy barrel stainless marlin. I used to shoot it out to 1000yrds. Just had to dial a bit. The 308 I have now is a 26inch 1/10 twist howa. I really want to get these heavy to shoot but I may go back to something lighter. I also have some more 178 AMAX and some 195ELDX that I can try. This was going to be a long range short action elk/deer thumper slow and heavy. I kind of lean this way on all my rifles. I shoot the heaviest/highest BC bullet that a twist will stabilize to max out the benefits of the cartridge. For the 178 thought I found it easy to load the IMR4895 just worked great and was consistent in velocity and speed. It did ok also with the temp. Never got to crazy with hard bolt lift or even ejector swipes. I was also about 3/4 on the max load data for the bullet/cartridge. .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 2671720, member: 10429"] I been through a pound of CF223 and its not very temp stable for what I was doing and the accuracy seem to be at full case capacity. It was a bad node. As soon as it got a little warm I had hard bolt lift. I've been trying to get some super heavy's to shoot well like the 212ELDX, 210VLD, and 210ABLR. I thought I was going to have some luck with the Varget but that turned out to be more of a mixed brass issue. I need to go back and try this over again with the Varget. I had another 308 that shot the 168 and 178 amax very well and about 50fps apart from each other. I wish I never would of sold the rifle. It was a bedded 1-12 twist heavy barrel stainless marlin. I used to shoot it out to 1000yrds. Just had to dial a bit. The 308 I have now is a 26inch 1/10 twist howa. I really want to get these heavy to shoot but I may go back to something lighter. I also have some more 178 AMAX and some 195ELDX that I can try. This was going to be a long range short action elk/deer thumper slow and heavy. I kind of lean this way on all my rifles. I shoot the heaviest/highest BC bullet that a twist will stabilize to max out the benefits of the cartridge. For the 178 thought I found it easy to load the IMR4895 just worked great and was consistent in velocity and speed. It did ok also with the temp. Never got to crazy with hard bolt lift or even ejector swipes. I was also about 3/4 on the max load data for the bullet/cartridge. . [/QUOTE]
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