Thankyou guys.
Turns out I didn’t have the die screwed into the press enough. My ram makes contact with the die, but another 1/8 turn or so and presto! The .002 bump I wanted.
Turns out I didn’t have the die screwed into the press enough. My ram makes contact with the die, but another 1/8 turn or so and presto! The .002 bump I wanted.
That's one hell of a caliber to start to learn reloading on.
It will make a really big boom of things go horribly wrong. But using a very slow burning powder like n570 I've found my 300nm to be the most forgiving round to load.
I've never had high pressure signs because I think it might take seriously compressed loads to exceed pressure limits. Also if you do screw up and throw an extra grain of powder I'd rather throw an extra 2 on top of an 87gr load instead of 2gr on top of a BR load of 30-something grains.
Now if something goes wrong and you pack 90gr of a completely wrong powder in a case then you're going to blow your face off. However if it's your first and only round your starting off with you shouldn't also have those fast powders lying around. As with all things reloading, go slow and double check what your doing.
Picked up an MRAD in 300 NM (26" 1-8") and have been put just under 100 rounds through it so far.
245 Berger LRHT
76gr H1000
Fed210M
Lapua Brass
2700 fps and 5-6 fps SD
.6-.9 MOA 10 shot groups.
Super mild load just to limit recoil and learn to shoot the gun (used to a 23 lb 6 dasher!) but going to bump it up to 78 grains and play with seating depth a bit to see if I cant tighten it up a little bit.
245 Berger LRHT
76gr H1000
Fed210M
Lapua Brass
2700 fps and 5-6 fps SD
.6-.9 MOA 10 shot groups.
Super mild load just to limit recoil and learn to shoot the gun (used to a 23 lb 6 dasher!) but going to bump it up to 78 grains and play with seating depth a bit to see if I cant tighten it up a little bit.
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