300 Norma Mag Improved. Follow along!!!

[KH_Outdoors]

Are you running Mil's or MOA?

Off topic but I'm considering swapping from MOA to Mil's with finer adjustments in the future.

 

[Huntnful]

Are you running Mil's or MOA?

Off topic but I'm considering swapping from MOA to Mil's with finer adjustments in the future.

I just recently started using Mils because the scope I wanted only came in MILS lol. But it is a more coarse adjustment compared to MOA. Rough comparison is .36" per click with mils and .25" per click with MOA.

 

[MallardAddict]

Are you running Mil's or MOA?

Off topic but I'm considering swapping from MOA to Mil's with finer adjustments in the future.

MOA is finer adjustment then Mils but Mils is quicker/ less clicks.

 

[Quicksilver338]

Would you say the 230's have been easiest to load for so far?

 

[MallardAddict]

Would you say the 230's have been easiest to load for so far?

In my 300 NMI The 230's have been stupid easy to find good loads with Retumbo and N570. R33 showed promise as well but wasn't worth the hassle of the carbon rings/extra dirty burning for me.

 

[Rick Richard]

Would you say the 230's have been easiest to load for so far?

Absolutely with N570 powder.

 

[Huntnful]

Would you say the 230's have been easiest to load for so far?

They definitely were. I never got any weird flyers throughout the whole process loading them, like I did with the 225 ELDM's and the 181 Hammers. I was starting to think I didn't know how to shoot anymore lol.

 

[Quicksilver338]

I get randoms with 215's and 245's. Never tried 230's yet and am kind of wanting to.

 

[Huntnful]

I get randoms with 215's and 245's. Never tried 230's yet and am kind of wanting to.

Might be worth a shot! I think I'll stick with the 220 LRHT's and 230 Hybrids on the next barrel.

 

[Rusty85]

Well here's the results from my pressure test with hBN coated 245 Berger's. Started to find pressure at 91 and 92 had a cratered primer and a good ejector mark but bolt lift was normal. Target was shot at 300 and that's an 1.5" dot.
88.5 velocity was 2940 not the 2990 that it looks like. Lol

 

[Huntnful]

While here's the results from my pressure test. Started to find pressure at 91 and 92 had a cratered primer and a good ejector mark but bolt lift was normal. Target was shot at 300 and that's an 1.5" dot.
88.5 velocity was 2940 not the 2990 that it looks like. Lol View attachment 390324View attachment 390325

Good data! What do you think you're going to go with for the next outing?

 

[Rusty85]

Good data! What do you think you're going to go with for the next outing?

I loaded up a few at 88.7, 89.7, 90, 90.2. Will find out tomorrow if it likes any of them.

 

[KH_Outdoors]

Learn something every day!

 

[Rusty85]

Today results. 88.7 and 90.2 showed the most promise. Except the ES's were horrible across the board, I think it's because I was shooting once fired and it wasn't fully formed yet or that's what I'm chalking it up to. ES on 88.7 was 45 and 90.2 was 27. Groups shot at 300 yards.
90.2 grains I made a .5 moa height adjustment after the first round (highest in that group). Measured group from the "+" mark.