8208-xbr question
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DeltaBravo
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I'm using it in my 6BR and really like it (I just bought 16 pounds of it so I better)! I'm shooting 80gn Berger Match Varmints with CCI 450s and Lapua brass.
HTH.
Dennis
HTH.
Dennis
DeltaBravo
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Omega,
I'm using 27.3 grains of 8208-XBR with the 80 Bergers (46 1/2 clicks on my Harrells). They shoot great with either of 3 settings on my Redding Seater Die; they equate to about 0.010 jam; touching; 0.010 jump. All are estimates since I haven't really measured COAL since the beginning. I also run either 0.001 or 0.002 tension in my .270 necked 4-groove Shilen DGV. Best groups at 100 yards are mid 1's and could be a LOT better if I could read the wind!
Dennis
I'm using 27.3 grains of 8208-XBR with the 80 Bergers (46 1/2 clicks on my Harrells). They shoot great with either of 3 settings on my Redding Seater Die; they equate to about 0.010 jam; touching; 0.010 jump. All are estimates since I haven't really measured COAL since the beginning. I also run either 0.001 or 0.002 tension in my .270 necked 4-groove Shilen DGV. Best groups at 100 yards are mid 1's and could be a LOT better if I could read the wind!
Dennis
I have been looking at comments from shooters on the BR sites for some time in regard to this powder. It seems like IMR is not able to formulate it to be either as good as the old 8028/T22 (no doubt made from unobtanium) or very consistent from lot to lot. Folks shooting the samples sent out by Hodgon a couple of years ago were thrilled with it--those same folks bought great quantities of it and were quite upset at the wild variance from the sample lot.
The couple of pounds I bought (lot # 1051910 4832) worked ok but not spectacularly in my .223 rem and .243 WSSM bolt guns. It was useless in my 22BR and 6mmBR when compared to the N-135 I had been using for years. At the time, there was only data published for the first two cartridges on Hodgon's website and I used load data from a friend to load the BRs using a 69 gr. Lapua Scenar bullet and a Federal match primer for the 22BR. I started 10% below the min listed load for N-135 since 8028 is a bit faster powder and worked up until the primers began to flatten out and the cases got hard to extract. No joy. I have found that my 22BR and 6BR rifles do not like much the same load except that they both like N-135 in different doses, but they were in agreement about the 8028. They hated it.
Hodgon still lists no data for the 22BR using 8028, although they have data for the 6BR.. If you feel like you must load this powder in that cartridge there is maybe some good news in that Neco has released a new version of quickload with "many of the new powders" including CFE223 which I am eager to try in my 6BR and maybe my 22BR as well. Last year I had some very nice groups in other cartridges using it and Hodgon listed data for it in the 6BR.
The couple of pounds I bought (lot # 1051910 4832) worked ok but not spectacularly in my .223 rem and .243 WSSM bolt guns. It was useless in my 22BR and 6mmBR when compared to the N-135 I had been using for years. At the time, there was only data published for the first two cartridges on Hodgon's website and I used load data from a friend to load the BRs using a 69 gr. Lapua Scenar bullet and a Federal match primer for the 22BR. I started 10% below the min listed load for N-135 since 8028 is a bit faster powder and worked up until the primers began to flatten out and the cases got hard to extract. No joy. I have found that my 22BR and 6BR rifles do not like much the same load except that they both like N-135 in different doses, but they were in agreement about the 8028. They hated it.
Hodgon still lists no data for the 22BR using 8028, although they have data for the 6BR.. If you feel like you must load this powder in that cartridge there is maybe some good news in that Neco has released a new version of quickload with "many of the new powders" including CFE223 which I am eager to try in my 6BR and maybe my 22BR as well. Last year I had some very nice groups in other cartridges using it and Hodgon listed data for it in the 6BR.
redrockranger
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RUN as fast as you can........
DeltaBravo
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Jim,
I'm shooting a 6BR, 8-twist.
Dennis
I'm shooting a 6BR, 8-twist.
Dennis
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