The horse has finally caught up with the cart!
Made this empty brass today...36 rounds through the 450-400.
Did not make it to the range until about 1630. Range 1 (position range where I can shoot offhand) was closed due to standing water from today's earlier rains.
Range 4 (benchrest only) was open...but did not want to sit at the bench...this ain't no stinking target rifle!!
Fortunately there is a little one-position range in back where you can set up the chronograph and shoot offhand...only drawback is it is 25 yards...27 if you cheat and stand as far back as allowed - which I did.
Oh well - this is the initial run so better that I can shoot on my hind feet.
Hornady factory ammo chronographed at 2,006 fps...very mild. Like a starting load!
My starting loads with 78gr of IMR 4831 and 400gr Hornady DGX chronographed at 2,042.
Starting load of 70.5gr WW-760 and 400gr DGX did 1,973.
Starting load of 63gr of Re15 and 400gr DGX did 1,999.
Pig load of 300gr Barnes TSX and 58gr Re15 clocked 1,883. I shot these last and they felt like shooting a .308.
Next time out I will chronograph some progressively stouter loads. Hope to get on range 1 where I can shoot some 50 yard groups as well.
The Re15 and WW-760 loads above all had a 3gr dacron wad to take up the air space.
All of the loads showed very good shot-to-shot consistency. No groups as I was shooting offhand at a 6 inch paper plate at 27 yards!