I need help. I am behind in developing a load for my hunting rifle this year. I was wondering what loads people were using for a 200 gr eld-x using either varget or h4895? I will be shooting it out of a Rem 700 5R rifle. Just don't have the time to go thru a large test groups. Trying to shorten the amount of ladder test shot groups. Any help would be appreciated.
When I get home from work I’ll look through my notes.
Hopefully Holland will chime in, I know he’s done a little work with this bullet as well.
JTD
OK I am adding another powder to the mix. CFE223
Ive never tried cfe223 with those. I got my best groups around 39.5gr of varget .020” off the lands. I never ran it over a chronograph, so no velocity data.
JTD
Thanks for your help. I was just looking at powders that I can still get and would give me a high velocity. CFE was just faster then the other two powders.
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
With that bullet Ive hit pressure before I reached max loads. So I gave up on velocity and just went for accuracy. One powder I haven’t tried, but am going to try is XBR8208.
JTD
Here is my thread about the bullets and varget
.308Winchester with Hornady 200gr ELD-X
https://sagesreloadingforum.com/showthread.php?t=1114
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