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IMR 4350
buckhorn2:
when you start reloading don;t caught up in thinking you have to be at the maximum to get the best preformance. A deer does;nt know if it;s maximum or two grains under sometime a coupe grains under give you the best accuracy. If you do the conograph you will see that a grain of powder may only gain you 25 feet in speed but a hole lot more in recoil.
brokenvet:
I was referring to the 56 - 59 grains of powder. I hope you did not take offense, Your idea of 1 grain increment makes absolute sense.
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:yeah: I reference every (of the six I have), book when I'm working a new load for any bullet. I've been doing it that way for more than 25 years of reloading and never had a mishap.
-Steve
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JackOfAllTrades:
No offense taken! ;) Often when I'm trying to push a load, I'll drop to less than half grain increments (where I do try to get the most accuracy with the most velocity for a particular bullet, relizing that 'faster, is not always better'.)
Anything less than a 375H&H does not have recoil. :chuckle: :bash: :chuckle:
-Steve
Guy:
"I just got into reloading, I loaded my first rounds this morning."
Congratulations on starting what could well be a life-long hobby. My father and grandfather included me when I was only about five years old - fifty years ago. I got to seat the bullets for the hunting rifles. Still remember that.
The .30-06 is a terrific cartridge! You've already been given some good advice - there's no need to run it at max throttle to get good results. Of course the good old '06 can be pushed hard and produce terrific results that way too.
Couple of points worth mentioning:
I happen to really like using H4350 and 165 gr bullet for my general purpose .30-06 loads. Accurate, stable, and knocks the snot out of critters just fine. The 180's are fine too, likely better for heavy game.
There's a famous Alaskan brown bear guide, Phil Shoemaker, who talks up the .30-06 as perfectly suitable for use on the giant Alaskan brownies he hunts year after year. He recommends a 180 gr Nosler Partition as a good starting point, and the 200's and 220's even better for the big bears he hunts at modest ranges. You can look him up on line.
Another famous hunter & gunwriter, Craig Boddington, highly recommends the good old .30-06 for all sorts of African plains game, below the level of the cape buffalo and the 2,000 lb eland. He too appreciates the 180 gr bullet at normal velocities.
Noted gunwriter John Barsness authored a good article about handloading the .30-06 in 2009. Excellent information! Here's a link: http://www.24hourcampfire.com/newsletters/May_2009.html That should prove to be an excellent guide for future load work.
I've been hunting for many years and have messed around with many different rifle and cartridge combinations. After all that time I'm sure I could have done at least 90% of my hunting with the .30-06 that Dad started me on back in 1966. I still have that rifle and use it quite a bit. Last year my son took a good bear with it.
Enjoy your rifle, enjoy your handloading, and proceed at a deliberate, studious pace. I'm still learning new things about handloading all these decades later.
Regards, Guy
kbrowne14:
Thank you guys for all the help. I am sure that you will be answering some more questions that I will have later on. I am going to start out at the minimum and then step by 1 grain increments until around 54. Then I am going to step up by half a grain increments and watch for pressure signs.
How about seating depth? The manual gives me 3.34 I thnk as the C.O.A.L. Max. I seated down to 3.245 because the 2 manuals said they used 3.240 and 3.250 as their test so I split the difference.
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