Hello folks. I am facing fun times shooting my new Savage 10ba in 308 and my Remington 700 in 6br. Both rifles are fairly new and will need extensive load development sessions. How does everybody do load development? Do you have some tricks to do it efficiently and with minimal bullet pulling involved? Last time I had to pull about couple dozens of bullets and wasted quite a bit of powder. Any point in buying portable bullet seating press and taking it to the range? What would be a minimal number of shots to see accuracy potential of the load? I have chrony by the way. Anyways, whatever you think is helpful bring it here, ok?
general load development question
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I start by looking in a trusted loading manual, start at their starting range, and work up to the maximum in 1/2 grain increments. I only go to the posted maximum as I have worked up to it. If you think that you have found your load, if you arent crmping the bullets I found that I could pull the bullets out using a small bench vise without deforming them and pull the round nicely to reuse all the powder. I think that creating a range reloading setup is alot of work with minimal gain, it likely won't be as accurate either as when you are relaxed at home doing some quality reloads without the rush of wanting to go shoot them immediatly. When I was doing load development in my 308 I found that I have taken about 100 shots to get it right. I did groups of 5 a the same distance from lands 0.020 off, and then I shot 50 with the desired powder charge but changing the seating depth in 0.010" increments off the lands. I know that some people do smaller increments but i don't think that my skill as a shooter is good enough to necessitate the degree of loading yet. Have fun and don't rush it!!
Evan
Evan
