dustybrown
Well-Known Member
I have been handloading for about 3 years and have ALOT of fun and some sucess with my 22-250 and .243...in the last 6 months I have been loading for my 300 RUM. Its a lilja bbl 700 rem. I have played with rl-25 and retumbo and the 185 berger vld. cci 250 primers or fed 215's. neck sized rem brass at 3.68 coal. still fits mag. I have a brake on it and it still feels like some one punching me in the face when i shoot it. I can get past that recoil and im sqeezing of good shots, i guess... its shooting .7 " at 200. Im hitting fair at 850 yds.. My little experience with big charges has me scared to increase. Im running 94 grains of retumbo and the max listed by bereger is 96 gr. I know what to look for but ive never seen any preasure signs to know what it looks like. ???? (you get where im going yet ?) I know to look for primer flow and ejector marks but don't know what those look like... It's simply a confidence issue with my experience level. My MV with the 185 vld is 3060 to 3073 with the 94 gr. charge. Thats not letting me get to 1000 yd. with one rotation on my scope. 70 1/3 " clicks is well into the second rotation at a grand. I was told to try to get my MV to up around 3200 fps. this would also let me use less wind hold. any advice would be appreciated.. Thanx