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Reloading
The Frustration Continues!!
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<blockquote data-quote="green 788" data-source="post: 672160" data-attributes="member: 3781"><p>You can use the new brass (so long as we're not talking Ackley Improved here, which I don't think we are)...</p><p></p><p>You can use fired brass, or new brass either one... just keep all cases in the test as uniform (all new, all once fired, all twice fired, etc) as possible.</p><p></p><p>As to which powder you use, it's hard to say... some like the 4831, some prefer 4350... but there does seem to be a trend beginning toward H1000 and Retumbo (and presumably RL25) powders, which give a compressed load.</p><p></p><p>I use Retumbo in my .243 win... I think I was among the first to begin doing this some years back, pushing 107's to 3000 fps with it... lots of folks at the time said that powder was too slow, but results were amazing...</p><p></p><p>The 6.5-284 (with 140+ weight bullets) would probably work well with Retumbo also, but I might call Hodgdon for some info before setting starting and max loads. They do have H1000 data on their website, and that powder is very close to Retumbo--maybe a tad faster, but very close.</p><p></p><p>Dan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="green 788, post: 672160, member: 3781"] You can use the new brass (so long as we're not talking Ackley Improved here, which I don't think we are)... You can use fired brass, or new brass either one... just keep all cases in the test as uniform (all new, all once fired, all twice fired, etc) as possible. As to which powder you use, it's hard to say... some like the 4831, some prefer 4350... but there does seem to be a trend beginning toward H1000 and Retumbo (and presumably RL25) powders, which give a compressed load. I use Retumbo in my .243 win... I think I was among the first to begin doing this some years back, pushing 107's to 3000 fps with it... lots of folks at the time said that powder was too slow, but results were amazing... The 6.5-284 (with 140+ weight bullets) would probably work well with Retumbo also, but I might call Hodgdon for some info before setting starting and max loads. They do have H1000 data on their website, and that powder is very close to Retumbo--maybe a tad faster, but very close. Dan [/QUOTE]
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