Not to pester, but can you explain why one is better than the other?
I get some are fast and hot, some are slower, but what’s that really mean. Varget will be slower and more gentle, but how?
Will the A2700 behave differently with interlocks cause they are softer and shorter, or is it useless...
They been on the shelf for a year or better. It was an impulse buy when there was nothing to be had at the stores. I figured I’d give them a try. I may just go back to a lead bonded bullet. Worst case I can drop down to 44 grains and shoot deer in the eastern hardwoods at 25 yards all day long.
I don’t mean to keep dodging the pressure issue. I was clearly all over it yesterday before backing down on the powder, but I want to address the question in post 11.
If I flat out abused some brass yesterday, cleaned and resized it last night, loaded it back up this morning and shot it again...
I ripped off three fouling shots, then set up the range and let the gun cool. It probably took an hour to shoot that 10 shot group. I may have sped up a little after that, but didn’t get smoking hot.
I’m not dismissing anything anyone says here. I have one kind of primer and a couple kinds of...
Shot 3 fouling shots, then a 10 shot group. The two lower ones definitely had a different cheek weld on them. I had my head slightly higher on those two shots, if that makes a difference. The far right shot was the last shot, so I’m going with, passed the sweet spot on the fouling. I’m just...
I see the primers getting flatter, but no real residue around the primers. An occasional light extractor mark, but nothing you could feel or catch on a fingernail.
Bumped them all back to .50 off the lands.
Shot this morning. Started with 45gn of A2700. Went to max looking for pressure signs.
Very faint extractor marks at 47gn. Bolt stated getting snug at 47.5-48. Blown primer at 48.5gn.
Went back to 45.5 and 46.5gn.
I guess in need to keep it at around...