I'm going back out this week hopefully and retest, taking 33.8 up to 34.4 and see, I had before 34.4 to 35 to test but the first click and I was done! Will update when I get out. What speeds are the getting at 35 grains?
I would have to ask them Frankie. I hear them talking about what powder charges they use but I never asked what they are getting for velocity.
Maybe I am the only one lost, but are you using IMR 4227 or H4198?
H4198, sorry should have stated that.
Recently tested some VV-N130 and would say It performed well with this bullet.
You shootin a 30BR or the 30 Major
BR, major is being converted also, the major was on a BAT M, this one is on the Borden BRMXD
Naw, have one to thread on and one of the BAT DS try. The PPC I got from Harvey (after I turned the brass to get more clearance and changed to LT32 28.9 grains!) is shooting lights out if I can do my job. We'll see on Saturday!
You converting the Major to a BR Frankie?
One of them, The other (Borden) was a barrel I got from Speedy when he built the gun. Changed the bolt face back on the BAT M so only made sense to make the Major a BR (added a 6BR barrel to shoot 600 yard).
Frankie. I just dug up a target back on 9-1-20. I was breaking in a Douglas 17TW 30BR barrel that Bob Green chambered for me in June of 2020. I don't buy Douglas blanks but I traded an 8 pound container of LT30 for this blank that Cline won as a prize at some Nationals I believe in NC. I tried shooting 35.2 and 34.7 of 4198 with a 115 grain bullet that the guy who I bought my dies from made. With 18 rounds fired using 35.2 I averaged 3127fps. So u my friend have a really fast lot of 4198. What lot number is it?
I'll check in the morning and post it, or a really HOT barrel! ;-)
I know I've gotten slow lots of 4198. I have some of the black kernel stuff that Allie Euber would kill for that is almost 100 fps slower than any other lot that I have. I got it when I bought all of Dave Apple's stuff in April of 2019. He had 4 jugs with the same lot number that is the usual greenish yellow kernels and this oddball 8 pounder with the black ones. I was talking with Jeff Peinhardt 3 weeks ago and we were talking about N133. He told me his lot of 2019 powder is really hot compared to anything that he's used. I told him that my friend in Maine who I shoot against sold me about 7 and one half pounds of 2015 N133 which was about 75fps slower than any other lot of 133 that I have and I have about 12 different lots dating back to 1994. He couldn't get enough of that lot in his PPC to get it to work. I put that lot in my 30x47 and it produced the highest velocity of any 133 that I tested in that case.
Here ya go, see if I've lost my mind or just hot!
It always matters!! LOL
Don't you think there is a direct correlation between the 2? I mean we're talking "lot" numbers here ;-)
