Jester896
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yep...went there this morning. Grafs had a sale and I went looking for shot shells since my WM doesn't carry the supply others do. For the 2 flats of shells that totaled $167 the wanted $147.?? to ship them to me 
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Dub
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yep...went there this morning. Grafs had a sale and I went looking for shot shells since my WM doesn't carry the supply others do. For the 2 flats of shells that totaled $167 the wanted $147.?? to ship them to me
That is pure insanity on those shipping charges. Have you checked with Roger's ?
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menhadenman
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$100 delivered @Jester896 - I bought my last several flats from Ammoman. They have a few other options in that same area.yep...went there this morning. Grafs had a sale and I went looking for shot shells since my WM doesn't carry the supply others do. For the 2 flats of shells that totaled $167 the wanted $147.?? to ship them to me
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Liberty
Senior Member
Dub, I played around with some Shooters World match for slow fire standing, since shooting 77 grain bullets at 200 yards feels like a waste. This was at 50 rested on my pistol range, not 100. The group was shot from my White Oak. Not the best load ever, but better than me standing without a sling on my best day.
menhadenman
Senior Member
I got a white oak barrel that shoots like that… 69 RMRs over benchmark. This is 5 shots at 100 yds from a bipod and rear bag. Easily my best from a gas gun ever.
menhadenman
Senior Member
And I owe you a weekend report from my son’s 243. Turns out 4064 didn’t work so hot for his Ruger American… but dang if the old brown mule IMR 4350 showed up. I didn’t have the Labradar and forgot my bags, so maybe not the best (used an empty water bottle for rear support) but I think there’s something to work with here.
First group - all four shots - over 41.5 grains.
Second group.
Third group.
He’ll probably never see a 100 yard shot with this gun so I’m more inclined to just call it with a decent load and roll a couple hundred for target practice.
But…
First group - all four shots - over 41.5 grains.
Second group.
Third group.
He’ll probably never see a 100 yard shot with this gun so I’m more inclined to just call it with a decent load and roll a couple hundred for target practice.
But…
menhadenman
Senior Member
Forgot to mention, we have a fair MOA 5-shot load with 90 Hot Cors over StaBall of all things. And I did clock that at just under 3,000 fps.
And I also shot some TTXs but they didn’t do as well. Hard to get into experimenting with those spendy bullets! But after seeing what @BriarPatch99 does with his quarter bore I want to check it out.
And I also shot some TTXs but they didn’t do as well. Hard to get into experimenting with those spendy bullets! But after seeing what @BriarPatch99 does with his quarter bore I want to check it out.
Liberty
Senior Member
That will kill a deer for sure. If you want to safely get some wild velocities, try Magpro in .243 and .270. The accuracy for me has been consistently good with Magpro in both calibers plus 7mag with 150 Berger’s, or 150 Speer, and very poor with Partitions or Interlocks in my rifle.And I owe you a weekend report from my son’s 243. Turns out 4064 didn’t work so hot for his Ruger American… but dang if the old brown mule IMR 4350 showed up. I didn’t have the Labradar and forgot my bags, so maybe not the best (used an empty water bottle for rear support) but I think there’s something to work with here.
First group - all four shots - over 41.5 grains.
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Second group.
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Third group.
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He’ll probably never see a 100 yard shot with this gun so I’m more inclined to just call it with a decent load and roll a couple hundred for target practice.
But…
Liberty
Senior Member
That looks great! I think the 1 in 7 over-spins the light bullets making accuracy erratic unless just the right harmonics are found. This a non-provable by me theory, that has no basis in any fact other than my personal experience.
menhadenman
Senior Member
How’s it handle heat swings?
I have a buddy that uses magpro for 7 RM and 150s… says it’s good but I haven’t tried it.
Liberty
Senior Member
I generally work up max hunting loads in the summertime with anything of I’m going “hot”, but Magpro doesn’t seem to know that it’s cold outside during hunting season. It hasn’t shown me any signs of being squirrelly . I use CCI large rifle primers except in the 7 mag, which gets magnum rifle primers. If we were in Minnesota, I might work up all those loads with magnum primers shooting ball powder. .243 and .270 just aren’t burning much powder.
A friend of mine from PA that shoots clays has daughter attending U of AR, he drives down to visit her. It’s just a short distance to Walmart HQ and there’s 6 Walmarts within short driving distance. He started visiting a different Walmart daily. He got the delivery schedule down and was buying cases of shells. When he drove back to PA the whole back of the SUV was loaded so high one could not see out the back window. Every space had ammo stacked in it. If he had gotten stopped it would have been an interesting conversation though he did absolutely nothing illegal.
menhadenman
Senior Member
Jester896
Senior Clown
if you over spin a bullet it causes the nose to lift. Doing so will create drag on longer trajectories therefore decreasing the BC of the bullet
some guys in FL tell me what good deals they get and quantities.
Mine has 2 boxes of I forget the brand target 12ga 1oz #6. I can't use anything bigger than 7.5 at the club. I'm real fond of 1oz #8 but shoot 1 1/8 # 8 a good bit. I forgot to stop at the one in Americus when I was there yesterday.
I did hit a jackpot for a customer though...never seen that much silver in one place in my life...I was distracted
GregoryB.
Senior Member
I didn’t reload anything but while I was at the shop picking up my bow I scored 3 fresh 1lb bottles of IMR 4350 for $54.99 each. Quite a few of my rifles love this powder, add this to the 5K Large Rifle Primers I just picked up I should be ready for deer season.
Liberty
Senior Member
The times we live in aren’t like the good times when you went to the store the week before you went hunting and stocked up for a few hunts. These days, we have to think about deer/ dove season 3 years from now.
Buckstop
Senior Member
Just finished 75 rounds of 6.5-06. Correct head stamp Quality Cartridge brass with 110 Hammer Hunters. 54.4 grs of H4350.
Have another 100 pieces of necked up Nosler 25-06 brass prepped to play with another bullet and powder. Kinda wishing I’d went with the AI version. Was surprised how much length the brass gained after one firing and sizing. The 25 brass was shorter than the trim to length to start but flowed right to the max and needed trimmed after one cycle.
Have another 100 pieces of necked up Nosler 25-06 brass prepped to play with another bullet and powder. Kinda wishing I’d went with the AI version. Was surprised how much length the brass gained after one firing and sizing. The 25 brass was shorter than the trim to length to start but flowed right to the max and needed trimmed after one cycle.
Adam5
Senior Member
Loaded some hotter 45-70 250 gr. test loads. 
