Recent content by 45-70guy

That’s awesome Bob, I’ve always been a fan of those Hornady Round nose since I was a younger lad getting into reloading. I had used a 220g Round nose in my 30/06 at the time to take a 435 pound black bear, shot him in the shoulder at 20 yards and it broke both shoulder and cuaght the bullet in...

The furthest I’ve had to opportunity to take game was on a black bear at 200 yards, the barnes exited and dropped him instantly. I could not find accubonds or partitions for a long time so hornady round nose , barnes tsx, and north forks that I did get will last me a long time. Speer hot cors...

Bob thank you for all that, I like to be able and compare everyone’s different experiences and results along with my own. Your velocities make sense compared to mine as I’m running a 22” barrel here in the thick timber. I was having an issue with hornady brass and after say 4 firings I’d start...

Thanks guys that does help, I do know my action ( 1903 Springfield) can indeed take a longer coal as I have 3 others which are all throated to 0.300” longer. I took a chamber cast this morning after checking the trapline and the case dimensions are spot on, but it looks as my rifling starts...

Thanks for the sight guys, I do enjoy a new challenge here and there just to keep the spark alive during the winter. Hoping to finalize this with an old original redfeild 2-7 scope but I’ll need to send that out as the glass is starting to fog over and after 4x the clarity goes to crap. So for...

Ok thank you for that, I also just took measurements of 3 other whelens just to get a comparison on this throat length, which seems to be the reason this particular rifle cant chamber factory ammo. For reference: all compared to the measurements on this one in discussion -1903 chambered to 35...

I’m back on another project, this one an old 1903 Springfield higher number chambered in 35 whelen. My favorite! I found this as an old timer a state away had built this and supposedly used it 5+ years ago but is now selling his collection. So anyways I grabbed this and started taking...

Glad to see so many whelen fans, my African m77 should be here in a week or so. Headed to Montana to bear hunt and see how the Remington 700 will do. 225 TSX at 2600 FPS using varget at the moment. CFE load in my stainless m77 and 225 North Forks at 2650. 22” barrels. My stainless Ruger has a...

I don’t have access to MR -2000 currently but do have a pile of cfe223 hence the usage, and it may be because I’m testing at shorter distances ( 100 yards) that I’m not going to see massive differences between powders for what I have on hand ? I figured if In my 22” barrels if I could at least...

When you guys are running imr 4064 and getting 2500 FPS can I ask what grain weight your running? I never went beyond 54 grains just because I stopped at the book max and my velocity was under 2300 so I moved onto the mext powder but I see Ken waters did go up as high as 55-56 grains. Just...

Today’s weather was enough to slow down work, 30 mph sustained winds, 50 mph gusts and a foot of wet snow. So after plowing my 1/4 mile driveway and cleaning the mess of trees up etc... I figured I’d get more tests in. I tried to go back to 62 grains to see if maybe ES would change, and it was...

Thanks for that. That at least gives me an idea what average everyone is running, and exactly how I run my loads is, I try to have a roughly known max pressure, then even if I find my load is 1-3 grains lower say, I can compare my pressures and velocities but also feel good about knowing I’m not...

That’s awesome I appreciate that as a reference. so I guess my next question is what is accepted as the operating “pressure” for 35 whelen? I see in your RED which is what you did not like it’s over 63,000. Lee 2nd addition does show loads right around 60,000 in there higher loads. Speer...

I see what your saying, I’ve actually haven’t had to go “full potential” to accomplish what I’ve needed, In the last 15 short years of my life I’ve been using a 45/70 hand loaded to a below full potential load but has yet to ever fail, cast Bullets being my main choice but I started with premium...