I wanted to "expand my horizons" a bit by playing with my first wildcat cartridge, and I landed on the 7mm Sherman Short. I've been hand loading for 30 years or so, but I've never messed with anything without published load data before.
I have some some fresh brass, Berger 180 Hybrids, and H1000 to start with. I want to shoot a milder fire-forming load through 50 cases to get started. Is 54 gr of H1000 with the 180 a reasonable place to start, or is that too low? The load data on the Sherman site shows a 180 ELDM with 60.1 gr of H1000 and a 180 VLD with 65 gr. I generally like starting 10% under and working my way up slowly, hence where I came up with 54 gr.
Anyone with experience with this cartridge mind sharing their starting load and work-up experiences? The only threads I could find on it were older and only discussed loads closer to max...and a lot was with the unobtainable RL26 to boot.
I have some some fresh brass, Berger 180 Hybrids, and H1000 to start with. I want to shoot a milder fire-forming load through 50 cases to get started. Is 54 gr of H1000 with the 180 a reasonable place to start, or is that too low? The load data on the Sherman site shows a 180 ELDM with 60.1 gr of H1000 and a 180 VLD with 65 gr. I generally like starting 10% under and working my way up slowly, hence where I came up with 54 gr.
Anyone with experience with this cartridge mind sharing their starting load and work-up experiences? The only threads I could find on it were older and only discussed loads closer to max...and a lot was with the unobtainable RL26 to boot.
