kstone803
Official Meat Getter
I loaded about 398 50 grain frangible .223 for close up steel work on the range. Love those things
I love that Dillon powder measure, it works like a charm.
The funny thing is, most all modern powder measures do a fairly good job with ball and flake powders. People just don't really run the numbers and realize that on a 30gr charge, +/- 0.3gr is a 1% variance, which is not terrible at all on a purely mechanical measure (and, TBH, should not have a dramatic effect on velocity SD). Where people get in trouble is when they expect those results with stick powders, which, well, is never going to happen with anything but the very shortest of them maybe.Me too. It's extremely reliable and has pretty darned good consistency with the powders I run through it.
The funny thing is, most all modern powder measures do a fairly good job with ball and flake powders. People just don't really run the numbers and realize that on a 30gr charge, +/- 0.3gr is a 1% variance, which is not terrible at all on a purely mechanical measure (and, TBH, should not have a dramatic effect on velocity SD). Where people get in trouble is when they expect those results with stick powders, which, well, is never going to happen with anything but the very shortest of them maybe.
Me too. It's extremely reliable and has pretty darned good consistency with the powders I run through it.
The funny thing is, most all modern powder measures do a fairly good job with ball and flake powders. People just don't really run the numbers and realize that on a 30gr charge, +/- 0.3gr is a 1% variance, which is not terrible at all on a purely mechanical measure (and, TBH, should not have a dramatic effect on velocity SD). Where people get in trouble is when they expect those results with stick powders, which, well, is never going to happen with anything but the very shortest of them maybe.
YMMV, but Erik Cortina has a couple of videos talking about how he specifically doesn't measure the lands, and explains how he develops his seating depth to find where the rifle/load combination is the most accurate. I watched them both and they seemed to make sense. He's a much better shooter than I am, so for me, it's worth looking at.Measured to the lands on a Mauser rebarreled in 35 remington. Then loaded 5 180 grain soft points .010 off the lands and used n133 for powder. I'm excited to see how it does.
YMMV, but Erik Cortina has a couple of videos talking about how he specifically doesn't measure the lands, and explains how he develops his seating depth to find where the rifle/load combination is the most accurate. I watched them both and they seemed to make sense. He's a much better shooter than I am, so for me, it's worth looking at.
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Ok, so you've basically done what he did - found jam, backed it off, and are loading from there. Most of this stuff - working up a load for a particular rifle with a particular bullet, is really new to me, so I'm trying to learn what I can from any source I can find it.I've watched those and agree with most of it. My thought processes is this is a rebarrel Mauser in 35, not a laser to begin with. Being a betting man I'd guess it will be a fair amount different then most published data that would be put out for your average levergun. So I found jam, backed it up a touch and will stay there unless it's horrible.
Starting out without any history of the rifle I figured that would be a smart move.
Loaded some xtreme 230 grain round nose with 5.8 grains of 231 for my 1911. Tested 14 rounds and it grouped decent, but felt pretty snappy. I may bump the charge down and shoot it over the chronograph to see if I can tone it down.
Still need to test the 35 ammo I loaded
Err, Hogdon shows a 5.3gn max for 231.
One of the things I find mildly irritating about load manuals is that there is very little consensus among them. There's usually a middle ground of agreement, but there's almost never a consensus on minimum or maximum load for a particular bullet/cartridge combination.Err, Hogdon shows a 5.3gn max for 231.