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Reloading to replicate another caliber?
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<blockquote data-quote="highfinblue" data-source="post: 3030105" data-attributes="member: 67530"><p>I shoot all year, but generally it is with a 22lr or some other rimfire. I own several centerfire rifles, and load for them all. I find an upper node that is accurate and stop there. I have went beyond, and cannot remember a single time accuracy improved at top velocities. I've had several 300 WSM's and every single one shot the most accurate right at 2950, and the crazy thing it didn't matter if I was shooting 165 or 180 grain bullets. Back in those days Nosler Accubonds were all I hunted with, and they never let me down, not a single time. The tips would decay if they sit in loaded ammo for a long time, but as far as lethality they always worked. I know guys that buy a rifle, work up load after load, get it shooting amazing, sell it and start another project. I am the polar opposite. When I get my hands on a rifle that will truly shoot accurately it has likely found its permanent home. There have been exceptions making upgrades in my opinion to more effective rounds, but working up loads is not my favorite hobby. Squeezing the trigger and watching fur fly, or hearing steel bang at distance gives me those warm fuzzy feelings. I am a firm believer in not trying to make a cartridge do what it is not designed to do. I believe that can be extremely dangerous. When I was young and indestructible, I didn't think about it as much, but seeing a couple of rifles have catastrophic failures when other people made grave judgments in error has made a believer out of me. I have a rifle or two that does perform best a little above published data with no heavy bolt lift, no marks on brass, and primers looking fine load after load, but I have tons of published data, and that is where I start, 10% below maximum and slowly work my way up. This is old news to many of you, but if there is a young me out there, listen to us old farts, and it could literally save your life. You should have seen the CZ that blew up in my friends face, I wondered how he even lived.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="highfinblue, post: 3030105, member: 67530"] I shoot all year, but generally it is with a 22lr or some other rimfire. I own several centerfire rifles, and load for them all. I find an upper node that is accurate and stop there. I have went beyond, and cannot remember a single time accuracy improved at top velocities. I've had several 300 WSM's and every single one shot the most accurate right at 2950, and the crazy thing it didn't matter if I was shooting 165 or 180 grain bullets. Back in those days Nosler Accubonds were all I hunted with, and they never let me down, not a single time. The tips would decay if they sit in loaded ammo for a long time, but as far as lethality they always worked. I know guys that buy a rifle, work up load after load, get it shooting amazing, sell it and start another project. I am the polar opposite. When I get my hands on a rifle that will truly shoot accurately it has likely found its permanent home. There have been exceptions making upgrades in my opinion to more effective rounds, but working up loads is not my favorite hobby. Squeezing the trigger and watching fur fly, or hearing steel bang at distance gives me those warm fuzzy feelings. I am a firm believer in not trying to make a cartridge do what it is not designed to do. I believe that can be extremely dangerous. When I was young and indestructible, I didn't think about it as much, but seeing a couple of rifles have catastrophic failures when other people made grave judgments in error has made a believer out of me. I have a rifle or two that does perform best a little above published data with no heavy bolt lift, no marks on brass, and primers looking fine load after load, but I have tons of published data, and that is where I start, 10% below maximum and slowly work my way up. This is old news to many of you, but if there is a young me out there, listen to us old farts, and it could literally save your life. You should have seen the CZ that blew up in my friends face, I wondered how he even lived. [/QUOTE]
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