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There wasn't the hard data so the 'nay brigade' all ho-hummed induction annealing.
Amp went and did said testing (a tonne of it) but the nay brigade still think because its their testing that it ...

What's your seating depth? The manufacturers may have deliberately cut the throat a bit shorter to make sure the factory loads were just touching the lands (boosting the chamber pressure).

They're a lot longer than the 143's so their ass is back in the powder. Not so great

The reason long range rifles are zero'd at 100m is to ensure that all your likely ranges will be holdover (not a mix of plus and minus). Not counting the first 25m or so.
FT airguns are setup in a...

"Brah i honestly thought you'd like a used mattress at your shooting club" [throws up gang sign]

Our local St Vinnies gets a hiding every weekend. Its an eyesore

Hi Les
Can you get a 20MOA angled rail? i would do this as its not just for optical clarity. Last weekend a mate was shooting his scope that was wound out all the way like you were describing. It...

When i want to monitor and maintain a minimal amount of carbon I just use patches and C4. Kroil to soak. But when you gotta get that carbon out I use a nylon brush with cloth wrap and a light coat of...

An average bullet is decelerating with a frontal force of 40G's so anything not in line (like a skew tip) is going to go pretty squirrely

Yeah I'm using it. It's like Strelok but has more features. Just about every scope and tonnes of bullets.

At 300m you do start to see minor wind effect the groups. Have a look at 'Applied Ballistics' and deliberately dial in a 10m/sec crosswind.
You'll see a couple of clicks to account for. 0.2milrads...

I'd swap out your ammo for something really different (say you had Hornady VLD's boat tails there in your test, try a flat base hunting bullet).
-Did you dial out the parallax error on your scope?

They look the goods Akaroa! What mould do you use for those?

I finally managed to lob some 352 gn ribless pc (41.5gn 2207). Got 3 groups in when the wind was flat. Gotta just play the wind game when it's about and aim off. 45-70 will never be a target round...

That is excellent shooting right there

I used to buy hornady ftx or monoplex from either Delta Mike's or Reloaders Supplies.

Up close at 26m the 45-70 can group like a .22lr and they're both prone to being pushed about by the wind out past 100m. But that's half the fun I reckon
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Dont be afraid to load heavier projectiles and drop back the powder. You can easily push a powdercoated 300gn cast projectile to 2000ft/s but seriously.. zero reason to imo.
I'm currently sitting...

They look pretty mint!

Enjoying this new Redding FTX roll crimper. Very tidy result
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https://noebulletmolds.com/site/shop/bullet-moulds/376/376-329-rn-bv2/376-329-rn-bv2-2-cavity-gc/

I'd hit up NOE and go undersized by a thou and just powder coat them

I reckon you'd be right on that. H335 is similar to CFE223 and winchester 748. The Lyman max load there is 45.7gn giving 2714ft/s. Worked up (safely of course) I reckon you'd hit 2800

Carefull when you load those up as well. I had a modest uncompressed load and they have heavy bolt lift and had flattened primers. Tbf I won't bother with ex-mil 7.62 brass in future.

What temp you run your mix at? I'm finding 450deg c to be about perfect for filling out the mould. Especially if I only do a 3 second hold then drop them out

I gotta say there seems to be heaps of active reloaders here in NZ nowdays. Right across the full spectrum from black powder, pistols, to target guys. You notice it more buying primers eh. The dudes...

Had a bunch of new stuff to try. I'm finding some of my moulds don't really like the full length of 2.1" so I bought the redding crimper they designed for the ftx bullet. Seems to work great for...