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  1. J

    How good is good enough?

    Re: How good is good enough? Most people are going to say that 3 shot groups are insignificant and you should shoot 5-10 shot groups to REALLY figure out how a load shoots in your gun. If it were me, then I'm not happy until my gun shoots as good, or better than factory ammo. For my gun, it's...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BigMahi</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Assuming don't give up on the Lapua brass, try bumping them only .001 back. Reload a couple rounds and see if you still have a sticky bolt...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? Hit the range today. Didn't need a chrono after all. 42.0gr of varget behind a 175 gave me a sticky bolt in all lapua brass. New lot of powder, old lot of powder, and some FL sized rounds. So...I'm at a loss. I bought some American Eagle 168gr M1A loads to make...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? No results as of yet, but today's looking clear. High humidity, and cold, but no rain. So I may try to get out anyways, but I won't be with the chrono. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Grump</div><div...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? I get that there's a volume difference. Hence reducing the charge. Anyways, I've got 5 rounds loaded with the current lot of powder at 42.0gr, and 5 rounds with a brand new lot of powder at 42.0gr. Gonna chrono and see if I get weird numbers, or sticky bolt lift...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Notso</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Now I'm confused.... are you having issues with the shells chambering BEFORE being fired or sticky bolt lift AFTER being fired? Because if the...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? Yea I tried that too. Just an update here, if I can catch a break in the weather I'm going to try and hit the range again. I'm going to take out 5 rounds loaded at 42.0gr, and 5 rounds resized again, with a little cam in the press. Hopefully nothing sticks. If...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? I'm going to try two things. Firstly, I'm going to load 5 at 42.0gr with them sized how they are. Secondly, I'm going to size 5 all the way to the shellplate, load them at 42.0gr and shoot them. If the first set sticks, and the second one doesn't. That's my...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? I'll try and hit everyone's posts here: VMAN: That's what I thought. I loaded up another attempt. 42.0gr-43.5gr(+.3gr). If these stick, then I...well I'm just lost haha. Lucks: Sometimes this kind of info can be the most helpful. The person who's taken me under...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? RCBS 505 Beam. First round is crosschecked on a digital. Here's the best pic I could get of the brass. Hard to see, but the primers have a little cratering(wouldn't say it's too abnormal considering most Savages I've seen, do it). They are a bit flattened on...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    Re: My gun hates lapua brass? Unless something happened between my last two loading sessions, the same bottle of powder was used to finalize the 45.6gr load in Winchester brass. The H4895 hasn't hit the bench in over 2 months that I can recall. And my notebook doesn't mention using it at all...
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    My gun hates lapua brass?

    At this point I'm at my freaking wits end. I've worked up a load in Winchester brass for my Savage 308. With a 175gr SMK, Hodgdon Varget, I was shooting between 45.6gr-45.9gr as my accuracy node. I was given a rather large amount of lapua .308 brass. So I decided to transfer my load over to the...
  13. J

    155.5 Scenar Max load

    Re: 155.5 Scenar Max load I think the difference is my COL. Seems most people loading them .010" off the lands and still in the 2.9XXs, my OAL touching the lands is 2.835". Seating these .030" off the lands because the guy I bought them from said he couldn't get them to shoot until they were...
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    155.5 Scenar Max load

    Re: 155.5 Scenar Max load Epic fail on my part. Sorry. I am using varget, these are previously fired cases. How much variation is normal between fired and unfired cases?
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    155.5 Scenar Max load

    I was getting ready to load up some rounds to do a little testing, and was going to follow the path I'd taken with 155gr sierra. In Winchester brass I loaded up to 48.5gr with no pressure signs with the sierra 2156 bullet. Using Varget, I switched to lapua cases, so I lowered the max charge by...
  16. J

    SMK 175 + Varget Load Work-Up

    Re: SMK 175 + Varget Load Work-Up You got that at 100? I tend to get a glob at only 100 yards, I can't see what the ladder is doing at all
  17. J

    load performing oddly...

    Re: load performing oddly... You're pretty close to the sonic barrier at 1000 yards. The area right around mach 1 is a pretty unstable area for bullets as far as I know. Also, a 10inch group at 800 should tell you something. If you're shooting 1/2 moa at 100, then something is going on...
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    ladder test, strange results?

    Re: ladder test, strange results? That's how I shot this. Two bags under the butt of the rifle(I got too tall of a bipod, and one behind it to keep it all settled. Didn't load the bipod though. I do intend to shoot from a bipod. Each shot I looked through the scope to insure the POA was...
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    ladder test, strange results?

    Re: ladder test, strange results? I had a buddy check a couple rounds. One had zero runout, and two others had around .001 it looked like. He said it was less, but idk how to read the damn gauge haha. That's another thing I didn't do, weigh cases, measure bearing blah blah. I just can't...
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    ladder test, strange results?

    Re: ladder test, strange results? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If your ladder results are confusing you, but you have chrony results to go with it, investigate the regions that have similar muzzle velocities...
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