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What happened to my load?!
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<blockquote data-quote="Trnelson" data-source="post: 1754673" data-attributes="member: 42308"><p>If you are shooting a new rifle you will want to break the barrel in before working out a load. There are several methods you can use to do that readily searchable on this site so I won't waste time explaining that. </p><p>Usually, barrels will speed up and velocity will stabilize some place between 50 and 80 rounds. Yours likely sped up as it broke in and got away from the node you thought you were exploiting. Every rifle is a bit different, I've had barrels that stabilized around 45 rounds and barrels that needed better than 85 to finally settle in. </p><p>I like to use the first 40 to 50 rounds to fire form brass, check a couple of different powders with minimum powder charges and swap a few primers as well. No reason to hot rod anything at this point. Every round goes across the chronograph and into my loading book for that barrel. That data is very valuable!! A better quality chronograph will make identifying when that barrel settles in and is ready to start identifying a load, seating depth and primer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trnelson, post: 1754673, member: 42308"] If you are shooting a new rifle you will want to break the barrel in before working out a load. There are several methods you can use to do that readily searchable on this site so I won’t waste time explaining that. Usually, barrels will speed up and velocity will stabilize some place between 50 and 80 rounds. Yours likely sped up as it broke in and got away from the node you thought you were exploiting. Every rifle is a bit different, I’ve had barrels that stabilized around 45 rounds and barrels that needed better than 85 to finally settle in. I like to use the first 40 to 50 rounds to fire form brass, check a couple of different powders with minimum powder charges and swap a few primers as well. No reason to hot rod anything at this point. Every round goes across the chronograph and into my loading book for that barrel. That data is very valuable!! A better quality chronograph will make identifying when that barrel settles in and is ready to start identifying a load, seating depth and primer. [/QUOTE]
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