Wasn't going to walk as much today. Loaded up the Teryx, forded the bog, almost got it stuck. Would have been bad as there are nothing in the way of trees to winch to. Still shot at 450yds.
Loaded up two ladders of H1000 to continue down that path, one with BR2's and one with 215M's. I read some other threads that people have had luck with large rifle primers so I figured what the hey. This was all 1x fired brass, did the full prep on them. These were actually jumped about .090 off as I am running into an issue with my Wilson die stem sticking above the head of the die trying to get out to around 3.70 COAL. Tonight I filed a few thou off and it seems to have given me the extra that I need. I'll be moving concentrating on the .015-.030 range during seating tests for the next round.
Wind was...well...wind.
Shot 77-80 grains in half grain increments. Hit moderate bolt lift at 80 grains with the 215m. Pretty apparent that shot 3 had some environmental influence to blame.
The BR2 ladder looked pretty similar but about 10-15fps slower throughout. The orange circle was my aiming point, I had a full 2 moa wind dialed in for this one.
After I shot both ladders, I shot two 3 shot groups at 100 with 78.5 grains to see how they looked. Both were identical in POI and shot shape. Two in, one out low right. Making progress, barrel is speeding up a bit. 64 rounds on the barrel at this point. I'll report back with seating. I'm going to continue with this 2x shot brass for load dev.
Loaded up two ladders of H1000 to continue down that path, one with BR2's and one with 215M's. I read some other threads that people have had luck with large rifle primers so I figured what the hey. This was all 1x fired brass, did the full prep on them. These were actually jumped about .090 off as I am running into an issue with my Wilson die stem sticking above the head of the die trying to get out to around 3.70 COAL. Tonight I filed a few thou off and it seems to have given me the extra that I need. I'll be moving concentrating on the .015-.030 range during seating tests for the next round.
Wind was...well...wind.
Shot 77-80 grains in half grain increments. Hit moderate bolt lift at 80 grains with the 215m. Pretty apparent that shot 3 had some environmental influence to blame.
The BR2 ladder looked pretty similar but about 10-15fps slower throughout. The orange circle was my aiming point, I had a full 2 moa wind dialed in for this one.
After I shot both ladders, I shot two 3 shot groups at 100 with 78.5 grains to see how they looked. Both were identical in POI and shot shape. Two in, one out low right. Making progress, barrel is speeding up a bit. 64 rounds on the barrel at this point. I'll report back with seating. I'm going to continue with this 2x shot brass for load dev.
