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300 Win Mag and N570

Iron Worker

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I was shooting 208 ELDms from my new 300 Mag. C.O A.L 3.500. 79.5 grs N570 Fed 215 primers. I was getting over MOA at 100yds, and the EXT spread was 100FPS(2,839-2,942) and SD about 60. That isn't very good. Even so, I could hit the gongs at 300-400 yds. 10" rifling twist Bergara B-14 HMR. What could be the cause?
 
I have found that N570 doesn't like to under pressure. You will get crazy numbers until you hit a load that makes consistent pressure. Has done that in my win mag, lapua, prc and others I have used it in. I don't know the barrel length but you should be at 3000 fps with a 208 with a 26" barrel with n570.
Thanks,very helpful. 26" bbl
 
The 2 powders I'm currently playing around with are Magpro and H1000. Both show great promise with Berger 215's and 208's. My ladder test apparently started on the high side of pressure so working backwards from 3100+ fps.
I'd say you should be at least in that 2900+ velocity range.
 
v570 is working well in my 300 win with the 200 elx-x, but she's slow... I was only getting 2600 fps from a 24" bbl. I forget the charge but it was Vit. data for a 300win with 200 gr pills
Your COAL needs to be at least 3.6" with n570. If you loaded to SAAMI specs, it's going to run slow because you're not getting enough pressure. Seat that bullet out further and fill the case with powder. You almost can't pressure out with n570 in a win mag case. It's a bulky powder so you're going to get powder crunch but I keep going up by .5 until the bullet springs out of the case by .005-.010"
 
Your COAL needs to be at least 3.6" with n570. If you loaded to SAAMI specs, it's going to run slow because you're not getting enough pressure. Seat that bullet out further and fill the case with powder. You almost can't pressure out with n570 in a win mag case. It's a bulky powder so you're going to get powder crunch but I keep going up by .5 until the bullet springs out of the case by .005-.010"
3.6" isn't gonna happen with my rifles... All 3 are mag. fed and need to stay under 3.4" if not a bit shorter. I'm also running v565 with the same bullet, and it does fine. In fact, I tossed (accidentally) a v565 group and a v570 group at the same 100yd target with 1 of the rifles and it was under moa for 7 shots with 2 loads. The rifle in question is my Savage Impulse 300win with a 6x Sightron on top.
I'll just burn the v570 in another cartridge. v565 is at a few fps under 2700 fps right now in the 300win and I can probably go up; I just haven't worked it.
 
3.6" isn't gonna happen with my rifles... All 3 are mag. fed and need to stay under 3.4" if not a bit shorter. I'm also running v565 with the same bullet, and it does fine. In fact, I tossed (accidentally) a v565 group and a v570 group at the same 100yd target with 1 of the rifles and it was under moa for 7 shots with 2 loads. The rifle in question is my Savage Impulse 300win with a 6x Sightron on top.
I'll just burn the v570 in another cartridge. v565 is at a few fps under 2700 fps right now in the 300win and I can probably go up; I just haven't worked it.
Makes sense. Yeah a faster burning powder is going to be your friend then. Good luck
 
I was shooting 208 ELDms from my new 300 Mag. C.O A.L 3.500. 79.5 grs N570 Fed 215 primers. I was getting over MOA at 100yds, and the EXT spread was 100FPS(2,839-2,942) and SD about 60. That isn't very good. Even so, I could hit the gongs at 300-400 yds. 10" rifling twist Bergara B-14 HMR. What could be the cause?

What cases? You could also be over pressure. My ES was higher with more N570. Drop it down to the 78 ish range if using ADG. 80ish if using Norma. When you find the sweet spot it will sing, but then you will have eaten your throat and need to adjust 🤣

H1000 in the 2850 range is a happy place.
 
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