Thread: What Have You Loaded Today

Loaded up some 156g berger bombs for my 6.5 saum, 175gr cutting edge maximus and 280gr peregrince for my 338fed.

Originally Posted by Larskramer

what are they humming out at ? I am throwing 175gr from my 338 federal ( necked up 308 ) @ 2670fps and they do some awesome damage

Haven't Chrono be under 3000

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

They are called hand grenades for a reason...awesome projectiles,would definitely suggest on larger deer through ribs or into neck,rather than shoulder bones. Those wallabies will not know what hit them. Fun times ahead.

Belmont used to load 130 grn Lapua hollow point in budget 308 ammo. Had a huge cavity in it. It chrono'd at 3k. It was a good cheap alternative for meat hunting but munched a lot of meat.
We used it in the Douglas on the high Tahr population and it was devastating. Just imagine posting a pic like this nowadays.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Belmont used to load 130 grn Lapua hollow point in budget 308 ammo. Had a huge cavity in it. It chrono'd at 3k. It was a good cheap alternative for meat hunting but munched a lot of meat.
We used it in the Douglas on the high Tahr population and it was devastating. Just imagine posting a pic like this nowadays.

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I used that a fair bit, fantastic accuracy for a factory load and devastating on Fallow and Smaller reds.

I'm told the lads shooting from the air liked it a lot...head/ neck shooting it would give slight margin for error and lighter on recoil.

Pulled remaining seven rounds of .222 that I had mistakenly loaded with .228 70 GRN projectiles. Put my titless sizing button in dies,resized them ,put the 23 grns 748 back in and popped correct diameter.224 70 GRN Speer flying brick on top. Now I should be able to remove round from chamber....and might hit what I'm pointing at....that's my excuse n I'm sticking to it .

Ready for the next fine spell and range visit.
375 H&H and first time trying Cutting Edge Safari Raptors 275 gn. A couple of preliminary ladders with RL15 and Staball 6.5 to see where if puts them velocity and pressure wise. Have read good reports about accuracy potential so we'll see.

Originally Posted by 30.06king

Ready for the next fine spell and range visit.
375 H&H and first time trying Cutting Edge Safari Raptors 275 gn. A couple of preliminary ladders with RL15 and Staball 6.5 to see where if puts them velocity and pressure wise. Have read good reports about accuracy potential so we'll see.

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Damn those are pretty.

...and at the other end of the spectrum, had a little session with my Lee Loader in 303B..bit of mixed HS older brass, annealed, even older Nobel Rifle Powder No. 2, 150gn pulled bullets - 3 HP and the rest SP, all FB. I didn't really need to use the bright shiny neck flaring tool sitting there but wanted to try it out. Essential for cast. And if it's used then a very light crimp to close the flare up again. Used the original load data from the box. Approx 36.5gn on my scales, claimed 37gn by Lee for the included scoop but it was as full as I could get it. Will take these out in my old short barrel girl with a muzzle forward suppressor and homemade front fibre optic sight. See if I can creep up within 50m of a goat.

Originally Posted by 30.06king

Ready for the next fine spell and range visit.
375 H&H and first time trying Cutting Edge Safari Raptors 275 gn. A couple of preliminary ladders with RL15 and Staball 6.5 to see where if puts them velocity and pressure wise. Have read good reports about accuracy potential so we'll see.

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Crazy pill. What do you hunt with those.

After a 10 round trial load, another 50 357 magnum 158 grain HRBC coated cast with CFE Pistol.

These are for hunting paper

Tried and true 168 amax and 42gns 2206H .308 11 years of this combination now and by my calculations 2 x 250 count box and onto the 4th 100 box must be at least 500 animals that didn’t argue

7mm08 150 accubond long range and 41.4gns of 2208 25 odd deer with out standing results



And 7saum 175gn elite hunters and 55gns of 2217 0 animals good sd and the biggest damage iv seen on the gong yet so looking forward to putting them to the test

@Kelton what happened to the one on the right that's ass up, blown primer?

Originally Posted by charliehorse

@Kelton what happened to the one on the right that's ass up, blown primer?

Their was 5 of them storeys in this thread or another somewhere loaded 162 eldx instead of 150eldx with the 150gn charge weight eyes were peeled on the chrono speed happened to be the same and was hitting the gong even wasn’t until I finished and picked up the brass I realised something was a miss went inside and I’d grabbed the wrong projectile blew the primer on all 5 perfect example of why tight bolt lift is a terrible gauge on pressure as they were fine to open