Post by picklehead on Jul 6, 2016 18:46:50 GMT -5
I hit the gold mine yesterday DOC. I found three jugs of N550 but paid dearly for it. $38.67 a jug and wish they had N540 to but didn't so I grabbed all three jugs of 550. I remember things that I want to and pretty sure you had good luck with the 540 years ago in the 06 and figured what the heck, I will use it for something one day if it don't pan out in my 06. That is some good stuff and my 06 has never shot this good,,,EVER.
The VV site is the only place that I could find data for this powder real fast. None of my books list it and wasn't going to guess on it. Damn glad I didn't because 49.6 is about all my MOD 700 can stand. Bolt lifts easy but the primes was starting to crater after 49. Once I hit 49, the group started to get spooky accurate and went .2 at a time until I ended up with this. One piece of brass busted the neck and guessing that's the semi flier. I knew damn well it didn't feel correct when seating the bullet because it was hard, going it the case mouth. I should have pulled it down and all brass was freshly annealed.
Didn't have time to set up the chrony and highly doubt this load is over 2475 FPS, but don't care. I do care if 2400 to 2500 is enough for this bullet to open up good on a deer, bear or whatever. Id say yea but will look at Barnes site later. I will do the barrel of water test tomorrow at 150 yards and maybe 50 but don't want to blow my test barrel for water up. 50 might be to close and can see that TTSX, passing thru. Here it be DOC and will get more if I see it again. It only took 24 years to get this, so I will take care of it. Yea I want to try it in other things and will, but slowly.