This should be fun. Don't know what I am going to find or where this is going to lead.
I have a Savage Model 12 barrel that I have been shooting for awhile and mostly with Sierra MK 69GR. Now I took a break from this to work with my 6ARC but have now gone back because it is much cheaper to shoot and stay sharp.
I had a few boxes of 68gr Hornady Match and 69gr Nosler Comp that I haven't been using and wanted to just use up. Now since I haven't loaded or shot these for over a year I nearly started over, though I had a baseline load to start with.
I started this by once again looking to find the bullet touch point for both the Hornady and the Nosler bullets. What I quickly found was touch was extremely long. Now this rifle has a blind magazine that is also extremely long. The numbes I have come up with are just what I have found on this particular rifle and with my Hornady comparator. So don't try to duplicate this.
With the Hornady bullet I was able to push this all the way out to 1.966" BTO to reach touch and didn't even try to find it with the Nosler. But I did find that I had to move both bullets back to a length of 1.9035"BTO in order to get them to feed into the chamber w/o hitting low on the the barrel. Now even at this length they are way past the 2.260" general mag length.
I have 10 of each bullet type loaded at this length and will tomorrow see how they perform and compare them to a normal load which is the same powder charge.
I have a Savage Model 12 barrel that I have been shooting for awhile and mostly with Sierra MK 69GR. Now I took a break from this to work with my 6ARC but have now gone back because it is much cheaper to shoot and stay sharp.
I had a few boxes of 68gr Hornady Match and 69gr Nosler Comp that I haven't been using and wanted to just use up. Now since I haven't loaded or shot these for over a year I nearly started over, though I had a baseline load to start with.
I started this by once again looking to find the bullet touch point for both the Hornady and the Nosler bullets. What I quickly found was touch was extremely long. Now this rifle has a blind magazine that is also extremely long. The numbes I have come up with are just what I have found on this particular rifle and with my Hornady comparator. So don't try to duplicate this.
With the Hornady bullet I was able to push this all the way out to 1.966" BTO to reach touch and didn't even try to find it with the Nosler. But I did find that I had to move both bullets back to a length of 1.9035"BTO in order to get them to feed into the chamber w/o hitting low on the the barrel. Now even at this length they are way past the 2.260" general mag length.
I have 10 of each bullet type loaded at this length and will tomorrow see how they perform and compare them to a normal load which is the same powder charge.