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One powder to rule them all (30-06)?
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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 1638910" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>Both the Sierra and the Speer 200 grain bullets retain tremendous energy at distance, especially if you can launch them at around 2575 to 2650fps. It also shoots much flatter at distance, since the BC for the Sierra is about .545 and the Speer is around .50. When zeroed for 100 yards with a velocity of 2600fps and an altitude of around 8000 ft. the rounds match my Shepherd P2 scopes out to about 700 yards, within 1 moa of drop. No guesswork. IMR 4350 will get about 2600fps using Remington standard primers and a load of around 54 grains. At 400 yards, the bullets have over 1900 ft/lbs of energy and because of the mass of the projectiles, great penetration and energy transfer. I have both the new and older manuals, with the newer manuals reflecting the lawsuit fears of the publishers, so I tend to load from the older ones. A word of caution here-54 grains is 0.5 grains over the max in the newest manuals, while 56 grains is the max for IMR 4350 using 200 grain projectiles in manuals older than 5 0r 6 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 1638910, member: 60453"] Both the Sierra and the Speer 200 grain bullets retain tremendous energy at distance, especially if you can launch them at around 2575 to 2650fps. It also shoots much flatter at distance, since the BC for the Sierra is about .545 and the Speer is around .50. When zeroed for 100 yards with a velocity of 2600fps and an altitude of around 8000 ft. the rounds match my Shepherd P2 scopes out to about 700 yards, within 1 moa of drop. No guesswork. IMR 4350 will get about 2600fps using Remington standard primers and a load of around 54 grains. At 400 yards, the bullets have over 1900 ft/lbs of energy and because of the mass of the projectiles, great penetration and energy transfer. I have both the new and older manuals, with the newer manuals reflecting the lawsuit fears of the publishers, so I tend to load from the older ones. A word of caution here-54 grains is 0.5 grains over the max in the newest manuals, while 56 grains is the max for IMR 4350 using 200 grain projectiles in manuals older than 5 0r 6 years. [/QUOTE]
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