boatymcboatface on Nostr: Happy Sunday!! I want to catch up with what I’ve been doing. I’ve been out to the ...
Happy Sunday!!
I want to catch up with what I’ve been doing. I’ve been out to the range twice now! Not very much but when you have a real life and aren’t a gun toober you take what you can get and I’m stoked.
The first series are my load work ups (at 100 yards) for powder. I took it right to the max load of 41.7 of N555. The listed max MV (what I see as the true pressure indicator) is 2664 feet per second (FPS) and as you can see, I was getting about 2550 FPS. Tikkas are known for having slower barrels. I thought about chasing that extra velocity, but when I did the math, it didn’t get me very much difference in trajectory. I decided to stick with the max load at a safe velocity and that’s what you see in the last target with eight shots at 200 yards.
You can see the eight shot group is quite a bit wider than the same load at 100 yards. This isn’t just because it’s farther away, but also the barrel is light and as it heats up it begins pointing in different directions. I’m extremely happy with these results!
So what are you all up to? I can’t wait to hear from the other shooters what projects they’re working on.
#whereswaldo
#gunstr
#ballistics
#creedmoor #hunting #handloading #reloading #loaddevelopment #loaddev #shooting #200yards
#grownostr #plebchain
I want to catch up with what I’ve been doing. I’ve been out to the range twice now! Not very much but when you have a real life and aren’t a gun toober you take what you can get and I’m stoked.
The first series are my load work ups (at 100 yards) for powder. I took it right to the max load of 41.7 of N555. The listed max MV (what I see as the true pressure indicator) is 2664 feet per second (FPS) and as you can see, I was getting about 2550 FPS. Tikkas are known for having slower barrels. I thought about chasing that extra velocity, but when I did the math, it didn’t get me very much difference in trajectory. I decided to stick with the max load at a safe velocity and that’s what you see in the last target with eight shots at 200 yards.
You can see the eight shot group is quite a bit wider than the same load at 100 yards. This isn’t just because it’s farther away, but also the barrel is light and as it heats up it begins pointing in different directions. I’m extremely happy with these results!
So what are you all up to? I can’t wait to hear from the other shooters what projects they’re working on.
#whereswaldo
#gunstr
#ballistics
#creedmoor #hunting #handloading #reloading #loaddevelopment #loaddev #shooting #200yards
#grownostr #plebchain