Recent content by Justin Todd

I have an 8lb can of 8133 I used about a lb of it and wasn't impressed I'd be willing to trade for RL33 or large rifle magnum primers if anyone is in the NC area.

I have had decent luck with the 195 EOL and RL33 in the 7mag I have a criterion 28 barrel I used the berger load data to get a start load. I hit pressure at 71.5gr though so I load them at 71gr I forget the oal it's in my book but it's was set .030 from the lands. At 71gr my avg was 2915fps...

Still haven't tried any 8133 in my 7mag found a nice load I like with RL 33 and 195 and stopped playing. Using the 8133 in my 300 RUM

I did manage to pick up 14 pounds of it got 4 1 pound cans at once place, lucked out and got an 8lb can at another, and before the riots and Corona crap I managed to pick up 2 more 1lb cans at my local gun shop. It's very hard to come by and with the primer, powder, and ammo shortage I'm...

So I've had these bullets sitting for a couple years, my barrel is only a 1/9 twist but with Berger stability calc it seems they should stabilize. So I put together a load with RL33 and to my surprise they are running 2915 fps avg with a 28 barrel and shooting very accurate at 200. I was...

I did eventually get lucky and found an 8lb jug of it bought it up as fast as I could. Haven't seen any since.

So I bought a box of these to try out and I got some start and max data from Sierra for the powders I have. Has anybody else tried these in 300RUM yet?

So I bought a box of these to try out and I got some start and max data from Sierra for the powders I have. Has anybody else tried these in 300RUM yet?

I will caution that the first few rounds I loaded at 46gr of CFE were over pressure with flat primers heavy swipe and a little spillage around the primer pocket. At 45 I'm just getting flat primer with no swipes.

I bought my first AR10 about a month ago got a cheaper one a PSA Gen3 18inch barrel, I started load development as I prefer hand load and usually shoot 175smk in my bolt gun here's what I can share I used Hodgdon load data for CFE223 my best load was below start load I'm using Hornady brass with...

I'm running a Rem 700 long range with Norma brass with 208gr eldm with 96.5gr rl 33 seated .030 off the lands, avg vel is 2975 with a single SD, I have no brake on my rifle but did put a limb saver on it. I would say it's somewhere between the recoil of my 7mag and 45-70, recoil doesn't really...

I'm running a Rem 700 long range with Norma brass with 208gr eldm with 96.5gr rl 33 seated .030 off the lands, avg vel is 2975 with a single SD, I have no brake on my rifle but did put a limb saver on it. I would say it's somewhere between the recoil of my 7mag and 45-70, recoil doesn't really...

I found that 96.5 gr of RL 33 with a 208 eld m set at 3.790 seems to shoot very well in mine I loaded all the way up to 99.5gr before it started to flatten primers still no sticky bolt but the best accuracy I seen was at 96.5 out if the 26' barrel it was running an avg of about 3100 fps.

Ok so I finally broke down and did some loading and shooting with this combo my coal is 3.790 about .040 off the lands in my rifle. Using a Hornady 208 eld match bullet. I started at 92gr and ran a ladder test up to 96.5 I have some more loaded at 97 up to 100gr of RL33 but here are the results...

I've noticed a shortage of a lot of different powders in the last couple years as well but it would make sense if the military has adopted the 300 win mag as their main sniper rifle that they would want the retumbo to load the rounds. But also think they would just buy the rounds from a big...