Changing things up after a "WTF" !! It's been unusually warm and sunny in Erie Pa. The one
barrel i have on one of my match rifle is the same one giving me the same grief. Instead
of pulling it......Well I had this fist full of 7mm 130 SMK's that were sorted out of spec, along
with a batch of sorted out primers. Since I did not give a sh!t about this barrel. I decided to
see how far up in velocity I could get with them in my SA284 wildcat. With a 9 twist barrel, it
was either hard bolt lift or blowing up bullets.....Shockingly, neither occurred. Actually, I started
to get groups in the 3's and over 3100 fps with the junk.....I decided to use some better stuff
and see what upper limit I could hit. At 95% case fill with Varget, and using a bolt closer jam,
I hit 3228 fps and a .163" 3 shot group !!.....I did an anal bullet sort last night and will head
to the range today for a repeat, and see what is on either side of it. If it's a winner, I will stop
the speed chase, then play with the tuner.....Stay tuned.....
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