Have a couple of boxes of Hornaday Black Box 123 grain grendel. Going to shoot that up (do that because my gun likes black box hornady in the creedmoor and grendel) and it gives me brass to reload. I will be it up to a couple of thousand at some point.
I'm going to try out some powder that seems to be a great place to start. Has great velocity and I'm a fan of Hodgdon. This is the H335 and I've only seen a few vids on load development. I'll be shooting the 24" Bear Creek fluted heavey threaded upper on my Colt 6920.
Not a fan of the Sier or nos ammo. I know they are great and everyone loves them, but I find Hornady eld match is just hard to beat. I've measured a bunch out of a box and they are dead on in length and gr. It's just me, but I trust Hornady match. Got the 120 gr because it's hard to find 123. Those are the two I want to test against each other but right now I'm must going to do the 120 and move up the SAAMI. Not starting from minimum but going to bump up 4 shots each to just below max at 100 yds.
Question. Most of the the test I've seen, that looked good, used small rifle primers, mostly Winchester. No Win around here but I've had great luck with CCI so I picked up some small CCI primers NO. 400. Is this the best choice for development of the PERFECT load? I honestly have seen no difference between the Fed's and the CCI's but that may be because I'm not as skilled to notice.
You guys have lots more experience on this than I do.
Also, I've put a few hundred rounds of the Black Box 123 eld through the BC grendel and I really like it. Want to get it pretty close before I move it out to 200/300/400. That's where I'm curious how this lighter bullet is going to work. To me hornady has always kept it's promise on ballistics. I will be using my Chrono and have pictures and data after.
I'm going to try out some powder that seems to be a great place to start. Has great velocity and I'm a fan of Hodgdon. This is the H335 and I've only seen a few vids on load development. I'll be shooting the 24" Bear Creek fluted heavey threaded upper on my Colt 6920.
Not a fan of the Sier or nos ammo. I know they are great and everyone loves them, but I find Hornady eld match is just hard to beat. I've measured a bunch out of a box and they are dead on in length and gr. It's just me, but I trust Hornady match. Got the 120 gr because it's hard to find 123. Those are the two I want to test against each other but right now I'm must going to do the 120 and move up the SAAMI. Not starting from minimum but going to bump up 4 shots each to just below max at 100 yds.
Question. Most of the the test I've seen, that looked good, used small rifle primers, mostly Winchester. No Win around here but I've had great luck with CCI so I picked up some small CCI primers NO. 400. Is this the best choice for development of the PERFECT load? I honestly have seen no difference between the Fed's and the CCI's but that may be because I'm not as skilled to notice.
You guys have lots more experience on this than I do.
Also, I've put a few hundred rounds of the Black Box 123 eld through the BC grendel and I really like it. Want to get it pretty close before I move it out to 200/300/400. That's where I'm curious how this lighter bullet is going to work. To me hornady has always kept it's promise on ballistics. I will be using my Chrono and have pictures and data after.