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Windypants. . . ???

I thought maybe you're getting sick of me. Been busy guiding elk hunts, and waiting for hunting season to end so I can get serious about coyotes. I did get three in a row that averaged 860 yards, then my rifle started shooting high and erratic, so now I have to screw a new barrel on and get load work up done. And my longest poke yet before it died. 1480 yards through the lungs. That 30-28 is a barrel burner, but man is it fun!

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Nice deer, Great shot.
Looks like your barrel went out in a blaze of glory,like a champion.
Any idea how many shots that barrel had down the tube?
How many grains of powder do you use?

Hal
 
windypants said:
I thought maybe you're getting sick of me. Been busy guiding elk hunts, and waiting for hunting season to end so I can get serious about coyotes. I did get three in a row that averaged 860 yards, then my rifle started shooting high and erratic, so now I have to screw a new barrel on and get load work up done. And my longest poke yet before it died. 1480 yards through the lungs. That 30-28 is a barrel burner, but man is it fun!

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Wow, that is amazing. Question. Why a 30-28 and not a 30 nosler or 28 nosler?
 
The 28 N has slightly more case capacity than the 30. The 30-28 is a match made in heaven for the 230 Berger. Just enough more capacity to hit the high node with 88 grains N570 @3125 fps. So it will run with the RUM or Norma with less powder. I abused the heck out of this barrel doing load developement with three different bullets, all hot loads, so I only got 450 rounds. I'll be nice to the next barrel and should get about 650. I don't mind rebarreling it every year when I get performance and accuracy like that.
 
windypants said:
The 28 N has slightly more case capacity than the 30. The 30-28 is a match made in heaven for the 230 Berger. Just enough more capacity to hit the high node with 88 grains N570 @3125 fps. So it will run with the RUM or Norma with less powder. I abused the heck out of this barrel doing load developement with three different bullets, all hot loads, so I only got 450 rounds. I'll be nice to the next barrel and should get about 650. I don't mind rebarreling it every year when I get performance and accuracy like that.
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Sorry to hijack but I've heard that with the introduction of 30 nos ADG brass it has pretty much put the 30-28 to bed.....I have no experience but I have talked with many who use 30 nos ADG brass and have went away from the 30-28. Can you speak to that sir?
 
southpa said:
Sorry to hijack but I've heard that with the introduction of 30 nos ADG brass it has pretty much put the 30-28 to bed.....I have no experience but I have talked with many who use 30 nos ADG brass and have went away from the 30-28. Can you speak to that sir?
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I'm running ADG and my accuracy load is right up against pressure with a 28" barrel, so I don't think a straight 30 Nosler would get there. But a 230 gr bullet at 3000 fps is nothing to sneeze at either. I haven't tried it, but other people have said that with the 215 Berger the 30-28 has no advantage since it won't get to a higher node than the 30N. It just runs the 3050 node with less pressure.
 
windypants said:
I'm running ADG and my accuracy load is right up against pressure with a 28" barrel, so I don't think a straight 30 Nosler would get there. But a 230 gr bullet at 3000 fps is nothing to sneeze at either. I haven't tried it, but other people have said that with the 215 Berger the 30-28 has no advantage since it won't get to a higher node than the 30N. It just runs the 3050 node with less pressure.
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So you're running 215s or 230s at 3125 out of a 28"? You've stated that with 215s the 30-28 has no advantage because it won't push to the next node. The advantage of the 30-28 is with 230s?
 

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