the_leper_colony
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For some reason, I always seem to have more than one project going on. Years ago, I bought a Savage 110F .30-06 from a buddy; I shot it a lot for a while, but it's basically been in storage for several years. At a gun show recently, I picked up an older tin of RedDot (in part because I wanted the tin for my collection ;^), and that got me thinking about "The Load" (13 gr of RedDot in a .30-06 case), which was something I had never tried. So I pulled out some 30 caliber bullets of different weights, some R-P brass, and loaded some test rounds with 10.9 gr of RedDot - the 180s did the best (50 yd bay at the range):
Fun to shoot - I'll have to load some more of the 180s, and try some other bullet & charge combinations, to use up the vintage RedDot!
Also just finished loading several hundred cast 9mm bullets I got cheap - 160 gr LRN, over Accurate #2 in once fired Blazer brass cases, using data from the Hodgdon web site. Kind of an interesting load, because the bullets are almost as long as the cases:
The Blazer brass works well; some other brands are thicker/heavier, and the cases bulge when those long bullets are seated. Pretty close to .38 Special ballistics, no leading to speak of, and cheap to shoot (for me, at least)!
Fun to shoot - I'll have to load some more of the 180s, and try some other bullet & charge combinations, to use up the vintage RedDot!
Also just finished loading several hundred cast 9mm bullets I got cheap - 160 gr LRN, over Accurate #2 in once fired Blazer brass cases, using data from the Hodgdon web site. Kind of an interesting load, because the bullets are almost as long as the cases:
The Blazer brass works well; some other brands are thicker/heavier, and the cases bulge when those long bullets are seated. Pretty close to .38 Special ballistics, no leading to speak of, and cheap to shoot (for me, at least)!
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