Hi
I just brought a howa 1500, 24 inch stainless barrel, 204.
Im running 40g hornady, winchester primers and ADI AR2206H power, remmington brass.
I have started to run in the barrel, and now would like some advice of how the get the best,fastest or most productive way to tune my loads. I have lots of this power and thousouths of the 40g, 204 hornady projeciles which I dont really want to change.
I have worked out the max length of the bullet which is a bit of a concern at 2.412 inch. this is much longer than the max length of the bullet for 204. @ 2.325 inch
Now I usually start loading from about 5/1000ths of the lands and work back,...... but to get the bullets to fit in the magazine they have to be 90/1000ths of the lands!
does anyone else have this problem or is this not a drama.?? Ive never had this before as all my brothers sako guns 223,204,308 and trg 42 win mag have always been able to start loading touching the lands.
Should I just start tuning from 90/1000th off the lands if so
what format should I do.? eg keep backing off with conservative load unti somethings suits, then load up or down to fine tune? OR keep at 90/1000th of lands and just adjust load until good.
Your advice would be greatly appreciated. It seems the more I shoot the less I know.
remember I have heaps of power and projectiles so dont really want to change these if I can help it.
I just brought a howa 1500, 24 inch stainless barrel, 204.
Im running 40g hornady, winchester primers and ADI AR2206H power, remmington brass.
I have started to run in the barrel, and now would like some advice of how the get the best,fastest or most productive way to tune my loads. I have lots of this power and thousouths of the 40g, 204 hornady projeciles which I dont really want to change.
I have worked out the max length of the bullet which is a bit of a concern at 2.412 inch. this is much longer than the max length of the bullet for 204. @ 2.325 inch
Now I usually start loading from about 5/1000ths of the lands and work back,...... but to get the bullets to fit in the magazine they have to be 90/1000ths of the lands!
does anyone else have this problem or is this not a drama.?? Ive never had this before as all my brothers sako guns 223,204,308 and trg 42 win mag have always been able to start loading touching the lands.
Should I just start tuning from 90/1000th off the lands if so
what format should I do.? eg keep backing off with conservative load unti somethings suits, then load up or down to fine tune? OR keep at 90/1000th of lands and just adjust load until good.
Your advice would be greatly appreciated. It seems the more I shoot the less I know.
remember I have heaps of power and projectiles so dont really want to change these if I can help it.