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Of course dies, spacer and about 150 formed cases (some loaded with Partitions and V-Max's)

If anyone is interested in purchasing this rifle, let me know. Otherwise, I'll turn it back to a 223Rem and sell it off.

Sorry mate, you wanted OAL:
60gr Partition 2.530"
53Gr V-max 2.630"

That'd pretty nice speed for the 60's, how does it shoot?

Length to Ogive is 55.88mm or 2.200" for both the 53gr V-Max and the 60gr partition. These are about 0.02-0.025" of the lands.

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If I had (or could get a tighter twist at a low price) I...

I'll put the gauge on some tonight.

Been shooting this a bit lately, mainly hares and wallabies with the 60gr Partition. Going well and have now got the 15 fires from a couple of the cases. These still look good and are only getting...

I emailed Igman and they said they could supply in batches of 200, 800 or 1000 and ship to NZ(never asked how much as Robbie already has heaps and at a pretty low cost(about $65/100 is I recall...

So I finally got around to running some 63gr Serria Semi SP.

Using 2206H again;
30gr gave 3280fps
31gr gave 3422fps

Looking at the 22-250 data in ADI's book, I've got these running about...

Going to back off the Partition load a little, bolt lift was a bit tight after hitting this stag. There were well defined extractor marks on the case head and rim. Need to fire a heap of them to work...

Alarm went off a 4:30 this morning, I turned it off and went back to sleep. 5:30 I finally dragged myself out of bed. It looked pretty wet in the mountains and a mate pulled out due to the forecast....

So tried this fire forming without a bullet. Results and process below.

Trying to form case with less steps and removing the .270 or 7mm step.

I annealed the neck, size to .223, trim the case...

Maybe W748 would be worth a try to. Very dense ball powder, might go well with the lighter bullets too.

If anyone has a surplus Rem700 varmint barrel, I would be interest in it for this rifle and...

Not yet, but will next week. If it works, thing may be very different in the 223 world


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I run out of cardboard and real estate signs aren't up long enough to borrow in Canterbury these days. Cabinet makers must make alot of stuff ups, there are always plenty of large bit in the wood...

Right, good results with the 60gr Partitions doing 3550fps in front of 31gr of 2206H, this is a bit of a hot load and cases look good and the primers starting to flatten on the edges.

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Spoke to Red today and he never followed through with this option.

Anyway, having 54gr load doing nearly 3800fps for now is good.

Tonight i'm back load 60gr Partitions, 63 Serria SP and the...

Yeah, the quality if the case is not the same as say lapua match brass, it is military brass(suspected design life of one firing).

Out of the 80 cases ive fromed, only 4 have failed. I know I'm...

I now have 4 fires the first lot of cases I formed and I know I can 3700fps with the 53-55gr bullets in front of 31-32gr of BM2. Will try 2206H anyway and maybe some 60-65gr bullets too.

Was this the Thompson I mentioned at the start? Has Red got it?

Been out tonight with 2208 and 68-70gr bullets. I've heard a heap of people talk about bullet stability in general, but never seen...

Yeah, standard 223Rem reamer, just driven another 7mm in. I guess the bottom of the case has parallel sized for a short section, not sure if this is going to give any issues, hasn't to date and I've...

Using CCI Small Rifle #400 primers to date, but Have some Federal's too.

I haven't tried the FF with pistol powder yet, would you stem the case with a filler too? I have considered it, but wasn't...

Yeah, hear what you are saying about the 1:12 twist and the heavier bullets. I'll get it a try anyway and see how they go. I've heard mix results with them in twists like this, even a 60-65gr would...

So, 2208 was a fail with the 53gr Vmax as suspected.

31gr and 32gr gave the better groups, but the velocities were to slow, 3120 and 3160. Even the 34gr load only gave 3250fps. To be worth the...

Just loaded some with 2208, some for fire morning and some for the crony and targets.

Found that 2208 might be a bit bulky for this and might find a powder between BM2 and 2208 for the next lot....

That was just fire forming, but it's about learning what works and what doesn't.

Will do some more this weekend with load dev. MOving to 2208 now, then 2209, 2213SC. Pretty sure this is going to...