25-06 with 75gr VMax

First off forget even making refrence to the make of firearm. Enough diffrences exist in production rifles to say the only thing similar is the caliber. You will have to develope loads for your rifle and your rifle alone. Make model and year of manufacture have absolutly no beraing in this matter.

Yes I get great accuracy with 75 V-max's in my 25'06.
I've used both H414, and Varget with the loads. Look in a couple manuals, or surf the powder and reloading sites for data.
 
75 gr Vmax

S 66,

There are some folks out there that feel that barrel length in a 25-06 is important, I have shot my stevens, and my Sako very effectively even though they are shorter barreled guns like your Tikka.
I did some range work last summer with the 75 gr Vmax in my 25 and we were using H4350 and we were shooting at 300 yards after some groups at 100. I don't have the exact data here as we were working at a friends place near Cold Lake. I got a real fine group at 300 yards with the 75 gr Vmax, you should have no problem getting an accurate load for your rifle. FS
 
Thanks, I was looking at 4350 as a good possibility. I had it at the range yesterday with a couple of other CGN fellows and everyone was amazed at the powder flash and concussion - I was using Varget trying to get a load worked up and went from .2 gr over min to .5 gr under max and never got a group under 1.5 with that however I do not think Varget burns fast enough for the short barrel.

I will move up the powder rate burn chart and see what happens.
 
A near - "max" load of H-4831 worked well for me with the 75 V-max. Winchester brass & Fed GM210Match primers ...

Better accuracy for me with the 25-06 and the 85 Nosler BT varmint also using H-4831, however

Look in Hodgdon's reloading data site.
 
Hello. I haven't shot or loaded the 75 gr v max's, but I have shot quite a few of the Sierra 75 gr. HP's. I load them with 60 gr. of IMR 4831 and get great results. Fast and accurate. Really knocks a coyote over. Good luck, Eric
 
Lefty #### said:
First off forget even making refrence to the make of firearm. Enough diffrences exist in production rifles to say the only thing similar is the caliber. You will have to develope loads for your rifle and your rifle alone. Make model and year of manufacture have absolutly no beraing in this matter.

Yes I get great accuracy with 75 V-max's in my 25'06.
I've used both H414, and Varget with the loads. Look in a couple manuals, or surf the powder and reloading sites for data.
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You are such an A$$hole! Can't you just answer a question? It's obvious you have a great deal of knowledge with handloading and firearms. Just drop the sarcasam! LOL. If you are ever in Ontario. Let me know. I will buy you a beer and a steak!

Dave.
 
back to step one

I looked into something quietly posed to me, funny how all good advise does not need to be thrown out as ridicule and sarcasm...

According to the Hornady site COL for the 75gr Vmax is 3.1" - I made mine to 3.094" just to seat slightly off the lands...after receiving a suggestion I checked first the mag length capacity of the Tikka magazine, it will take a COL so long the 75gr will not be properly held in a properly lengthened Ctge Case...one of my old WW loading books gives a max OAL of 3.25" for any 25-06...

I then set a bullet in the ctge case (unprimed) finger tight, placed it in the breech and gently slid the bolt closed, with very slight resistance the bolt closed; I then ejected the dummy round and inspected it. It had just lightly engaged the rifling. I then made a small adjustment to the seating depth and found the difference between the initial length of my first test loads (3.094) and now to be very substantial. They are longer than even the WW OAL...

Back to the initial load workup stage with a much extended OAL - however I am going to look for some new powders as suggested in this thread at Perth Saturday morning.
 
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