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Reloading the 7mm Dakota
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<blockquote data-quote="IanCo" data-source="post: 1773532" data-attributes="member: 106861"><p>I did finally make it to the shooting range yesterday to try out some new handloads. </p><p></p><p>First loads were Nosler 160gr Accubonds on top of IMR 7977. I started at 74gr and went up to 77gr in one grain increments. I played with this powder with the 175gr LRAB and Partitions already so was pretty confident in the charges for my rifle. Had one ok group, one awful group, one good group and one great group. The good group had an ES of 2 and the great group had an ES of 30 I think. The last group at 77gr did give me some sticky bolt lift. </p><p></p><p>The 168 gr LRX I shot over 8133 and I started at 71gr and that was too light as I had a couple with sticky bolt handle. I went up in half grain increments to 73gr and wasn't getting into any accuracy nodes yet. Had another group with ES of 2, all the groups were ok but I know it will get better with some more velocity. </p><p></p><p>On a side note I did shoot a steel plate at the beginning of every group for a fouling shot since I clean the barrel each group, and I recovered two LRX's that had probably 2/3 of the bullet intact. After seeing that I am pretty sure I am going to work hard to make that my hunting bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IanCo, post: 1773532, member: 106861"] I did finally make it to the shooting range yesterday to try out some new handloads. First loads were Nosler 160gr Accubonds on top of IMR 7977. I started at 74gr and went up to 77gr in one grain increments. I played with this powder with the 175gr LRAB and Partitions already so was pretty confident in the charges for my rifle. Had one ok group, one awful group, one good group and one great group. The good group had an ES of 2 and the great group had an ES of 30 I think. The last group at 77gr did give me some sticky bolt lift. The 168 gr LRX I shot over 8133 and I started at 71gr and that was too light as I had a couple with sticky bolt handle. I went up in half grain increments to 73gr and wasn’t getting into any accuracy nodes yet. Had another group with ES of 2, all the groups were ok but I know it will get better with some more velocity. On a side note I did shoot a steel plate at the beginning of every group for a fouling shot since I clean the barrel each group, and I recovered two LRX’s that had probably 2/3 of the bullet intact. After seeing that I am pretty sure I am going to work hard to make that my hunting bullet. [/QUOTE]
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