Kingcreek
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I found some forgotten 230g FMJ bullets. I’ve shot thousands of 200gr LSWC but hadn’t loaded FMJ for years.
I have good supply of Accurate #5 so I looked it up in Accurates material (printed from their website). They said starting load 7.8 going up to 8.7 max (or was it 8.4?). No problem so I loaded some up at 7.8. Cycled perfectly but felt real snappy. Thinking I’m just used to 200gr I thought nothing more of it and loaded a couple hundred more.
THEN I pulled my Hornady 8th off the shelf and it says MAX load is 7.9gr #5!
I also have W231 and use it for my 200gr loads but was thinking I would save it for that recipe.
I plan to get the chrono out to check velocity on the 230s but thought I would query here in the meantime.
Any thoughts or experience to share?
I have good supply of Accurate #5 so I looked it up in Accurates material (printed from their website). They said starting load 7.8 going up to 8.7 max (or was it 8.4?). No problem so I loaded some up at 7.8. Cycled perfectly but felt real snappy. Thinking I’m just used to 200gr I thought nothing more of it and loaded a couple hundred more.
THEN I pulled my Hornady 8th off the shelf and it says MAX load is 7.9gr #5!
I also have W231 and use it for my 200gr loads but was thinking I would save it for that recipe.
I plan to get the chrono out to check velocity on the 230s but thought I would query here in the meantime.
Any thoughts or experience to share?