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Reloading standard cartridges in short barrels
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<blockquote data-quote="dfanonymous" data-source="post: 1833852" data-attributes="member: 97050"><p>I use the a 178 eld in a 20 inch. Factory ammo is chrono'd at 2578 @85 degrees F and verified at 1500 yards. My hand loads I use 43.2 grains of varget. However the hornady manual says max is pretty much 42 gr for varget. I was loading for this bullet before the book came out using a Lyman manual and under the amax standard. So that's how I found out that I could push the bullet into the 2500 range. Chrono'd 2535 in 65 degree F. Only verified to 1200 yards. All at 2000ft. I really don't touch it now as I've been looking at doing another powder to see how far I could launch it. Varget is probably not the powder for that. I might try 2460 later. However my stock remington just shoots. Even factory ammo group well, about .5 moa. Reducing ES is about the only thing I get benefit for reloading in the particular gun. I dropped it from about 18 in factory ammo to about 10 with varget.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dfanonymous, post: 1833852, member: 97050"] I use the a 178 eld in a 20 inch. Factory ammo is chrono'd at 2578 @85 degrees F and verified at 1500 yards. My hand loads I use 43.2 grains of varget. However the hornady manual says max is pretty much 42 gr for varget. I was loading for this bullet before the book came out using a Lyman manual and under the amax standard. So that’s how I found out that I could push the bullet into the 2500 range. Chrono’d 2535 in 65 degree F. Only verified to 1200 yards. All at 2000ft. I really don’t touch it now as I’ve been looking at doing another powder to see how far I could launch it. Varget is probably not the powder for that. I might try 2460 later. However my stock remington just shoots. Even factory ammo group well, about .5 moa. Reducing ES is about the only thing I get benefit for reloading in the particular gun. I dropped it from about 18 in factory ammo to about 10 with varget. [/QUOTE]
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