Federal does it again 😅
- By Charger442
- Bolt Action Rifles
- 307 Replies
Ya don't need published data to shoot it...it's nice but not mandatory.
I like the Weatherby offering 20 or 22 inch barrel, at Buds. Probably buy the 22" for me.
Buy a couple boxes of factory nickel plated cartridges.
Make some dies on the lathe.
And load the fired cases.
As you now have actual case H2O cap, and bullet length, COAL, all the parameters ya need to load this cartridge. Plus factory fired ammo from your chamber to compare.
So one can be shooting and reloading this new cartridge in a few days, with a little ingenuity and lathe skills.
May be able to rework existing dies with carbide tools and polishing, once you have your fired cases to measure.
this isn't 1962 anymore. if there's really all these gun companies chambering this, there's absolutely no reason federal can't do the logical thing and support it with published reload data and dies.
we shouldn't have to fabricate our own dies on the hottest hot sauce to come along since we broke the 3k fps barrier