What are you currently reloading?

Tryin to come up with a 6.5x55 load using 127gr LRX and N560.
Also will be starting load development for 280 AI soon, thinking about the 145gr HHT over H4831.
For decades, the 6.5x55 Swede in a stainless/walnut CRF New Haven made Model 70 Winchester, the 280AI in a Super light, super accurate Kimber Hunter, and a Custom Mauser in 35 Whelen were my Three Musketeers.

I got such incredible accuracy and velocity out of careful handloading.

I sold the 280AI and the 35 Whelen a few years ago, previously I sold my Browning 338, my Winchester SS in 300 win mag and a pre 64 Model 70 30-06 made in 61 or 62. The workmanship got sloppy those last few years.
Now I do all my hunting and shooting with a 270 Standard weight Model 70
made in 1953 and a Sako SS Finnlite Carbine in 308.
For hunting I use Barnes bullets exclusively in both of them. The performance I get is just amazing.

With the 308 Sako Carbine using the Camp Perry Powder made for the 308 i get 2,900'/sec with the Barnes 165 grain TTSXBT and it is a tack driver
 
Things got a little weird at the range. Not that 17m2 ever looks big, but it’s comical next to my new 33 Nosler from @p_ham. Projectile is some oddball overrun from the Nosler factory store, it’s a 227gr ETip that is similar to, but not the same as, the regular 225 ETip. Performance with a few different projectiles wasn’t quite up to that I was hoping for, so Paul is going to throat it so I can seat the 220 class monos out closer to mag length. He already did an awesome job building the rifle, so it'll be fun to try and take advantage of all the extra room.


View attachment 411238
I see the union of the new Eargesplitten Loudenboomer.
 

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
119,428
Messages
2,226,418
Members
38,902
Latest member
tidyman
Back
Top