Seeing all the what this or that questions for what to use, i thought this might be nice. I was reading the what the pros use thread on another site and figured this would certainly help out beginners. Right now I'd like to limit to ftr and if it gets good response ill do one for open classes as well. If you post up your powder, bullet, and brass type, as well as caliber I will compile the results and graph it. Ive got other threads on other boards as well so in order to not skew the results, please only post on one of the threads.
If i get enough interest Id like to broaden it to barrels actions and stocks in another thread and then maybe compile the same inof on open class in another thread. be a neat reference thread.
A while back I ran across an article that had listed 10 top shooters Palma loads. Sorry this looks a little confusing. I cut and pasted from Excel
Brass / Powder / Primers / Bullet / Velocity
- Winchester, weighs 170gr. Varget, 46.0 gr Russian LR Magnum Berger 155.5 Fullbore 2975
- Winchester, sorted by weight IMR 4895 44.8 gr Federal 210M Sierra 155 #2155 2.80" OAL 2980
- Lapua, sort by weight 170gr Varget, 46.6 gr. Russian LR Berger 155.5 Full or Sierra 155 #2156 2985
- Winchester 154gr. H4895 44.5 gr. Russian LR Berger 175 BT, seat to jam 0.010" 2835
- Winchester VV N150 46.5 gr. CCI 200 Berger 155.5 Fullbore 0.020" lands 2970
- Lapua:turned & trim to 2.007", sort +/- 0.5 gr. Varget 45.8 gr. Russian LR Magnum Berger 155.5 Fullbore 0.015" lands
- Lapua, anneal every 3rd firing, always FL size Varget, ??.? Gr. CCI BR2 155 Lapua Scenar 2970
- Lapua, weigth sorted +/- 0.5 gr. IMR 4320, 44.5 gr. Russian LR Berger 175 Match, jump to 0.015" 2810
- Lapua, weigth sorted +/- 0.5 gr. Varget, ??.? Gr. Federal 210M Sierra 155 #2156, 0.020" off lands Just over 3000
- Lapua, fire formed for 900yd + VV N-150, 45.5 gr. Russian LR Berger 155 VLD, 0.030" into lands 2930
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