8202 xbr

[calib]

anyone loading this stuff yet? i got some and am wanting to build up some loads. i got some data about min and max, just seeing if anyone here has used it yet

[GregMcFadden]

I plan to take my first set of loads out this weekend, weather permitting, and test them (.223 w/ 69gr SMK) and compare them with the same rounds I've been loading for years with varget.

I will say that in my dillon 550 it meters almost good enough not to weigh every single charge (generally all the same with the occasional outlier off by no more than .2gr) (unlike varget which ends up with +/-.1gr and outliers up to +/-.4gr)

-Greg

[GregMcFadden]

Shot some today, all of the various loadings I tested shot well enough for plinking and coyotes out to several hundred yards, one of the loadings ended up with a .36" diameter 4 shot group.  Time to load more of that one and try some faster loads.  this is .223 with brand new nosler brass, loaded to various loads between 20 and 21.7gr loaded for a 0.037 inch jump (about the longest round I can get in the magazine without scraping the tips).  I am also going to try loading up some with mixed headstamp once fired lake city brass, just to see how it works in unsorted brass (i.e. screwing around rounds)

all I can say is that from a cursory set of runs, it meters better, but appears a bit more sensitive (group size wise) than varget to small changes in the load.   I'll be working through additional loadings to see what I find as far as a happy spot for load.