What was that again?

[Rtheurer]

I went to the range this morning to shoot with the retired monday morning F class shooters that are alot of fun to shoot with today. Last night I plucked out my Old FTR/ Tacticool of the safe and found some ammo I had in a box that I had loaded up... who knows how along ago. Normally i have a smll piece of paper in with the ammo so I know what Im shooting. No peice of paper and I can tell its not my normal 175gr Sierra Match king load. None the less I figure a couple of shots and ill test what ever is in that box.
Turns out its one of the best loads I have ever shot in that rifle. i thought it was my 175gr Berger BTLR load but I saved a couple of rounds and pulled it apart to find out its a 185gr Berger VLD at Mag length with 41.5gr of an unknown powder and primer. I was able to hold 2.970" elevation at 600 yards with it... Dropped one 9 in 13 shots on the 600 yard Fclass target. All with a bybod, rear bag and a 6.5X20 Leupold. As tight as I could hold it anyway.

The problem is what powder and primer wast that.... Ive been traveling for wrork alot and had this project set aside but somehow lost my info along the way??/ Dang I hate when that happens.... Finda great load only to find out I dont know what the heck it is... this is Murphy's law at its finest.

Russ T

 

[Outrider27]

Yup; one again we prove that Murphy was an optimist....

If it makes you feel any better, we've done that too. And it is maddening.

 

[abishai]

Well, the good news is the list of suspects should be short. I would pour some of that powder on a piece of paper and compare it to what you would have likely used under a magnifying glass. My guess is its not H50BMG or 4198.

 

[GermanS1]

Russ, I have a very similar mid-range load with IMR 4064, shoots great. What powders are on your shelf? What is the length and diameter of the powder granules? That might narrow things down.
Glad to hear you're having some fun up there!

 

[Nodak7mm]

Russ,

I'll take credit for that... After I left you at Steves last week, I was bumming that you couldn't look far enough into your crystal ball and figure out when you were coming back up to the Motherland to further my shooting edjamakation, I hurried up and grabbed a flight to Memphis and stole the load label...

You want that load info, you got come back up here to get it....


;D Stay safe Budd.

 

[Rtheurer]

Rod You Rat...


RussT

 

[Rtheurer]

I was laying in bed the other night and got to thinkin about this and I remember looking at my powder shelf and seeing all that V140 and some Wolf large primers I never shoot and Ithink this is what it was. N140, Wolf primer, 185VLD jumping A LONG way at mag length in a lapua primer.
Oh the agony... Im too young to loose my mind... even as little as I had to start with...

RT